Lawmakers from China's largest industrial city of Shanghai stressed
the importance of redirecting redundant workers during the restructuring
drive.
Huang Qifan, a
deputy to the fourth session of the Ninth National People's
Congress (NPC) due to close Thursday, said Shanghai's economy
has maintained a double-digit growth rate for nine consecutive
years in that it took the lead in implementing the restructuring
and successfully redirected the workers made redundant in
the process.
Zhu Junyi, also
a deputy and chief of the Shanghai Labor and Social Security
Bureau, said establishing a sound social security system is
of great significance to ensure the realization of the economic
restructuring targets.
Despite the diversion
of more than one million industrial workers, the volume of
sales in Shanghai has doubled during the past several years,
said Huang, also director of the Shanghai Municipal Economic
Commission.
He said the per
capita added value of industrial output increased by two times
over that of 1994 to 80,000 yuan (US$9,750), ranking first
in China.
Shanghai has done
a good job of helping laid-off workers change their ideas
of employment and encouraging them to receive re-training
by social security departments so that they will become a
new source of work force, Huang said.
(Xinhua 03/15/2001)
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