1 million migrant workers find new jobs in Sichuan

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-01-28 11:17

CHENGDU - More than one million migrant workers, who were forced to return home in southwest China's Sichuan Province late last year amid the impact of the global financial crisis, have found new jobs.

Out of the 1.49 million migrant workers who had returned home, 1.03 million have found new jobs through training and job fairs organized by the government, according to the provincial labor and social security department.

About 38 percent of them engage in farming and breeding, 43 percent work in the towns and the rest leave home again and find their new jobs in other provinces.

So far, Sichuan has provided 5,000 training classes to 250,000 migrant workers. It also organized 53 job fairs specifically for the migrant workers, helping some 100,000 find new jobs.

The province is expected to invest 80 million yuan (US$11.7 million) this year on migrant workers training, up 77.8 percent year on year.