Plan aims for 45 mln new jobs
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The State Council released a plan on Wednesday to create 45 million jobs and keep the registered urban unemployment rate within 5 percent.
According to the plan, China's job market conditions will be "complicated" in the 2011-2015 period.
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A job fair in Beijing [file photo] |
Government authorities will spur employment while improving employment structure and further enhancing regulations and related mechanism to protect workers' rights and benefits.
The country also plans to create jobs for 40 million people in the rural surplus labor force in the five-year period.
The government will provide more effective training and better management of the job market to solve structural problems, like employees' skills not matching labor market demand.
The government also pledged to maintain an average 13 percent growth annually in the nation's minimum wage standards in the five-year period, to keep the standard in most regions higher than 40 percent of the average wage of local urban employees.
From 2006 to 2010, China created 57.71 million new jobs urban areas and transferred 45 million people in the rural surplus labor force to new job positions.
By the end of 2011, China's urban unemployment rate stood at 4.1 percent, the same as a year earlier.
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