Han urge concrete measure to boost employment
19/8/2003 16:10
Shanghai mayor Han Zhen urged governments at various levels to fully
understand the importance of the reemployment issue and to take concrete
measures to tackle it.
Han said this in a work meeting of Shanghai
Municipality and party leaders yesterday afternoon.
He requested organs
at every level to concentrate on the following fields:
--Vigorously
creating job opportunities and keep jobless rate under control. The fundamental
approach of solving the employment and reemployment issue through creating more
job opportunities should be at the top of all government tasks currently.
Employment and reemployment work is a essential part of performance evaluation
of government officials. Government at each level should fulfill the target set
early this year. The government will continue to create public service job
opportunities and provide the positions to people under the basic standard of
living. The existing positions need to be checked up of any vacancies.
--
Fully implementing incentive policies to encourage enterprises to absorb
laid-off workers and help the laid-off workers find jobs on their own
initiative. The government has mapped out a number of policies and measures to
encourage enterprises to employ laid-off workers. Favorable policies such as
offering loan and derating tax levy are provided to non-employed people helping
them establish companies of their own. Helping college graduates abandon
old-fashioned ideas and choose jobs from a wider field.
--Strengthening
professional training of laid-off workers. Further improving services to help
laid-off workers find new jobs. Training are to be provided on various fields
and at all levels. More effort shall be put on giving mid and high level
professional training which grant trainees practical and useful skills.
-- Ensuring social security system at townships and promote employment
of surplus labor in rural areas.
China faces a grave unemployment
situation this year with 24 million people searching for jobs, as 10 million new
job-seekers enter the labor market this year to compete with over six million
laid-off workers and eight million registered unemployed people for jobs.
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