Big data to help workforce mobility, innovation

A national big-data platform for human resources will be created to promote the orderly mobility of talent and encourage innovation, according to a guideline published by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security on Monday.

The guideline stresses "the decisive role" of the market in promoting talent mobility, while saying that the government will play a role in macro-control and protecting fair competition. Sixteen measures are included in the guideline to help improve the job market, such as better legal regulation of the market and offering talent more quality services.

Apart from building the national big-data platform for human resources, the ministry also aims to build a mechanism for forecasting the demand for talent and giving out early warnings, and to compile a catalog concerning talent that is urgently needed.