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| Saturday,March 28,2009 Posted: 17:35 BJT(0935 GMT) |
| From:Mofcom Article type:Reproduced |
At the end of 2007, the total of employed people in China numbered 769.9 million, 5.9 million more than that in 2006. Of this total, 293.5 million were employed in urban areas, a net increase of 10.4 million, of which 12.04 million were newly increased laborers. The registered urban unemployment rate was 4 percent at the end of 2007, a drop of 0.1 percentage point over that in 2006.
In 2007, the Chinese Government continued its proactive employment policy, and adopted 10 measures to boost employment, including:
––Creating more jobs. Efforts were made to encourage, support and direct the development of private enterprises and other forms of non-public economy and to boost labor-intensive industries, service businesses and small and medium-sized enterprises, so as to give full play to their role in expanding employment.
––Promoting reemployment of people from families with no employed members and those with difficulties to find work. Special attention was paid to guarantee the right of disabled persons to work and create jobs for them.
––Appropriately addressing the residual questions arising in the economic transition process, including the replacement and reemployment of workers laid off during the restructuring of state-owned enterprises and the closing down of bankrupt or inefficient firms.
––Promoting the employment of new college graduates by launching the “All-round Service Year” campaign and opening up channels for college graduates to work for businesses and grassroots organizations, start up their own businesses or explore other flexible employment opportunities.
––Increasing job opportunities of rural migrant workers and safeguarding their rights. In light of arrangements detailed in the State Council’s No.5 Document that was released in earlier 2007, efforts were made to gradually establish a long-term mechanism to solve the problems encountered by rural migrant workers.
––Placing demobilized military personnel into suitable jobs according to relevant policies, and working hard to solve their problems.
––Improving the management of the employment fund and the oversight of its usage, to make sure that the money is collected and spent properly.
––Strengthening vocational training and employment services, so as to improve the employability of job seekers.
––Linking the basic living standards guarantee system in urban areas and the reemployment system, and promoting reemployment of those capable to work.
––Expediting the building of a legal framework to promote employment. The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress passed the new Labor Contract Law on June 29, 2007, and the Employment Promotion Law on August 30, 2007, providing more solid legal guarantees for employment.
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