BEIJING: China will take a series of policy measures to stabilize the job market and help enterprises create more employment opportunities, according to decisions made at the State Council Executive Meeting presided over by Premier Li Qiang on Friday.
Participants at the meeting in the State Council listened to government departments’ reports about the current situation in the job market and measures for optimizing some employment-related policies, according to a news release published on Friday evening.
The meeting’s participants said that employment is the foundation of people’s well-being.
They pledged to further strengthen policy guidance, adjust some current policies, and reduce weak links and fault lines to ensure the stability of the country’s overall employment situation.
Measures are needed to maintain the quantity of current jobs, support the creation of new positions, encourage enterprises to increase their staff numbers and improve services for key groups of job hunters such as new university graduates and migrant workers, according to the meeting.
Jobs generated by State-funded entities and government-backed projects will remain stable while the government will use various methods to make it easier to procure gainful employment.
–The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
