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TIBET

Region helps farmers and herders find jobs

The Tibet autonomous region helped 693,300 farmers and herders find jobs last year. The regional government has attached great importance to promoting employment and entrepreneurship and taken a slew of measures to ensure farmers and herders find new jobs and increase their incomes, regional authorities said. Since 2016, Tibet has helped more than 3.5 million farmers and herders find jobs, and provided training courses to 476,000. In recent years, the surveyed urban unemployment rate in Tibet has been kept within 5 percent. The employment rate of fresh college graduates in Tibet reached 99.03 percent last year.

BEIJING

Digital work platform launched for lawmakers

A digital working platform designed to help China's lawmakers perform their duties was officially launched on Wednesday. It enables online processing of proposals and suggestions put forward by deputies to the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, making information available on their receipt, handling and feedback. According to the working arrangements of the NPC Standing Committee, the platform will be put into service during the fifth session of the 13th NPC, scheduled to begin on March 5. The platform was put into trial operation during last year's NPC session, with deputies finding it more convenient to acquire information and communicate through the online service.

Xinhua