Xi's care, national support help revitalize virus-hit Hubei

SALES PROMOTION, JOB OPPORTUNITIES

In early May, nearly 1,000 students from Yangzhou Polytechnic Institute in East China's Jiangsu province sold special agricultural products of Hubei online, including oranges and tea, to help Hubei recover.

"This is a famous orange from Hubei's Zigui county. It is seedless, juicy and sweet," said Chen Jiajia, a student of the institute with 1 million fans, advertizing the orange to the online audience.

Liu Jincun, Party chief of the institute, said the students' livestreams helped sell 105,000 kg of oranges for Hubei.

As a major labor export province, Hubei has about 6 million migrant workers. Shanghai and the provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Guangdong and Fujian have been organized by the central government to help Hubei boost employment.

Shandong, which sent a medical team to assist Hubei's Huanggang city, took the lead in signing a cooperation agreement to provide more than 2,000 jobs for migrant workers from the city.

In mid-May, the first batch of migrant workers left Huanggang for their workplaces in Shandong. Weng Xinnian, a migrant worker from Huanggang, got a job at Jinan Dali Foods Co Ltd in Shandong.

"I'm so excited. The company provides dining and accommodation for us. I can earn around 5,000 yuan per month now," he said.

The Ministry of Education launched moves to pair up universities in Hubei with 76 universities across the country to help graduates in the recovering province find jobs or start their own businesses.