More graduates for grassroots

Departments and ministries under the State Council, China's cabinet, have responded to a series of public concerns in the past week, including college graduates' employment, the replacement of the business tax with value-added tax and price reform in the medical service.

Sun Jianli, director of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security's Human Resources Market Department, responded on July 6 to public concerns about the project to employ college graduates in grassroots government units. Nine ministries and departments including the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the CPC and Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security have jointly issued an announcement on implementing the third round of the project from 2016 to 2020.

During this five-year period, 125,000 college graduates nationwide will be selected to work in grassroots units in various areas, and the authorities will enhance their cultivation and training of these selected college graduates and increase subsidies to them, in order to enable them to play a more important role.