sentences:  Other countries apart from China are beginning to provide raw materials at a lower cost, leaving manufacturers with more choices as regards their suppliers.A 2012 E&Y report says that "Wages have been pushed up by long-term decline in the aggregate labor force, combined with a rapid depletion in rural surplus labor, which has until recently provided an ultimate source of cheap labor,".But it warned that the massive reallocation of labor "from low productivity agriculture to higher productivity manufacturing is coming to an end".