Urumqi: Employment of recent college graduates in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is progressing well despite the impact of the region’s COVID-19 outbreak, with the employment rate standing at 65 percent, local media reported Monday.
By July 31, more than 66,000 of the region’s total 100,000 college graduates this year have successfully found jobs, said the regional authorities. To better adapt to the changing situation in Xinjiang, the regional authorities have established 121 phone hotlines to provide assistance to college graduates in relation to employment policies and job opportunities.
And, regional government departments provided “one-to-one” services such as skills training and internships to this year’s college graduates who are having difficulties to land a job. The Chinese mainland reported 43 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 Sunday, seven of which were from overseas, while 36 were locally transmitted, the National Health Commission said Monday. Of the number of locally transmitted cases, 28 were reported in Xinjiang.
Meanwhile, Two COVID-19 outbreak areas on the Chinese mainland – Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and the city of Dalian in Northeast China – have seen a decline in new COVID-19 cases for three days, showing positive signs of epidemic control. China’s top epidemiologist stressed that regional epidemic rebounds across the country are likely to continue.
Xinjiang reported 30 new infections on Saturday, dropping from Thursday’s 112 cases. A rebound occurred in the region on July 16 after its capital city—Urumqi—reported five local infections, ending a hiatus of more than 140 days.
The city of Dalian in Northeast China’s Liaoning Province registered three cases on Saturday, while 11 and eight cases were recorded on Thursday and Friday, respectively. If such a decline continues, it would indicate the outbreaks in the two areas are easing, analysts said.
The Hong Kong Special Autonomous Region, on the other hand, is fighting a severe situation as the city on Sunday reported 115 local infections, marking the 12th consecutive day of new cases surpassing 100. Zeng Guang, chief epidemiologist of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told the Global Times on Sunday that “sporadic outbreaks across the country may continue to take place every so often for quite a while.”
Zeng said that rebounds are normal as the world is still in the middle of a pandemic, and warned the public should continue epidemic control methods to reduce transmission risks.
– The Daily Mail-Global Times News exchange item
