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16.8m Laid-offs Re-employed, Job Situation Still Grim

China has made remarkable progress in promoting the work of employment and re-employment after several years of efforts made. Around 16.8 million laid-off workers have found new jobs from 1998 to 2000. Meanwhile, 3,400 posts have been newly created throughout the country. Currently it's an urgent and important task to promote the work of employment and re-employment.


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China has made remarkable progress in promoting the work of employment and re-employment after several years of efforts made. Around 16.8 million laid-off workers have found new jobs from 1998 to 2000. Meanwhile, 3,400 posts have been newly created throughout the country, said Wang Dongjin, deputy director of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, when delivering a speech at the ongoing seminar on "Promoting the Work of Employment and Re-employment".

He indicated that the government has worked out a series of policies and measures to resolve the problem of re-employment of laid-off workers in recent years. The local departments concerned have also created re-employment service system to offer training and provide guide to work for laid-off workers. From 1998 to 2000, 13 million laid-off workers have participated in the re-employment training and 60 percent of them have found new jobs within half a year after the training.

Wang highlighted the current tense situation of the re-employment in China, saying it's the peak time of labor supply, with 12 to 13 million labors out of job every year. There were 5 million laid-off workers last year, 6.8 million registered as the unemployed, and 150 billion surplus labors in rural areas need to transfer. However, only 8 million posts have been created every year based on China's current economic rise and employment growth. Currently it's an urgent and important task to promote the work of employment and re-employment.



By PD Online Staff Yang Ruoqian


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