When you finally realise you're getting about 30-40 RMB per hour, it's too late.

Basement wages, indeed! And is that the rate for white FT's?
I'd heard that disreputable Chinese employers only dared to offer lousy pay like that to overseas-born Chinese, or to Africans, or to Fipinos/Filipinas.

If you do decide to work for New Times International in Chengdu, expect to kick yourself hard in the butt later.

Make that very, very hard!