BEIJING, July 3 (Xinhua) --In a year when a record 10.76 million graduates stream out of colleges, China is living out its jobs-first commitment to helping them enter the workforce against COVID-19-induced snarls.
China has launched a series of pro-employment campaigns to move job interviews online, incentivize firms to increase their employees and open the doors of big cities wider to college graduates.
On May 16, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security initiated a nationwide online recruiting platform that will last till Aug. 25 to promote over 10 million openings, give occupational training lessons and offer employment counseling.
By June 5, around 340,000 employers have posted 9.77 million openings on the platform, which also facilitated many on-the-ground events across China.
On the hiring front, companies nationwide are encouraged to expand their staff. The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission urged all centrally-administered state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and local departments to expand their current recruitment and talent pool to create more job opportunities.
According to a government work report, China aims to create over 11 million new urban jobs and keep a surveyed urban unemployment rate of no more than 5.5 percent in 2022.
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