Job fairs brought to migrant workers' hometowns

NANCHANG - Hundreds of people packed a room at a job fair in eastern China's Jiangxi province last month where dozens of firms from the coastal province of Zhejiang, to the northeast, sought recruits.

In the past, people left towns in small inland counties like Shangrao, where the job fair was held, after Spring Festival for jobs in more developed coastal regions. But this year, the jobs came to them.

"It is a hard competition to find ideal workers nowadays," said Hu Zhiliang, who headed the enterprise delegation from Zhejiang. "We need to be proactive, and we cannot just wait for them to come to our doors."