Nine million urban Chinese employed
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-10-27 09:41
Meanwhile, China has made "a relatively high employment rate" a major goal in
building a harmonious society by 2020.
A source with the Ministry said
they will now focus on improving reemployment, especially in the less developed
central and western areas and the old industrial bases, where there are big
pools of workers laid off from bankrupt or shut-down enterprises.
The
government will also implement policies aimed at encouraging college graduates
to find jobs in the remote west and in grass-roots units, or to start their own
business.
Official data show that more than 9 million urban Chinese
found employment in each of the past few years, but that the country's average
10 percent economic growth over the past two decades was no longer able to mop
up surplus labor.
"The economic boom is no longer providing as much
employment," said Mo Rong, deputy chief of the labor science research institute
under the Ministry.
He said that a lot of China's roaring investment
fails to create many jobs. The country needed to develop the service sector and
promote small and medium sized enterprises, which can create more jobs, said
Mo.
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