City enhances employment for young people
18/2/2004 16:19
Shanghai began to focus on helping local young people get employed by
improving the vocational internship program launched two years ago, eastday.com
reported.
The city initiated the program in 2002, selecting a batch of
high-level enterprises as professional internship bases. Such enterprises, with
government subsidies, provide technical trainings for local young people to help
them improve competitiveness in future job-hunting.
To date, Shanghai has
boasted 734 professional internship bases, including the world's top 500
enterprises - Philips, Siemens and GE. A total of 27,000 young people have
received such trainings, with 60 percent of them finding jobs by the time they
graduate.
Zhang Tao, graduating from the Shanghai University of Engineering
Science last year, is currently a hardware engineer at the Chinese Academy of
Sciences and in charge of the research and development work of a high-tech
project.
"Thanks to my half-year internship at a large joint venture
company, I have received many job offers after graduation," Zhang said.
The
program is a good way to enhance employment for young people, said an expert,
adding that more enterprises should take part in the
program.
Wendy Zhang/ Shanghai Daily news
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