South Sudan's English Daily Newspaper
"We Dare where others fear"
By Benjamin Takpiny
The Chinese Minister for Human Resources and Social Security Wang Xiaoping on Saturday said that china will create over 12 million urban jobs in 2024.
Wang said during press conference in Beijing held by the second session of the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC) on issues including education, employment, social security, housing, medical care and disease control, that China will release stimulative measures to stabilize the job market and improve people’s livelihoods, such as continuing preferential social insurance policies and financial support, and broadening employment channels by supporting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.
The measures also include optimizing employment services and ensuring the employment of major groups, adding that supportive measures will be taken for major groups of job-seekers, such as nearly 11.79 million college graduates, ex-servicemen, migrant workers and people with disabilities in 2024.
Wang said that cultivation of skilled personnel is an important way to promote the development and utilization of human resources, adding that more efforts will be made to meet the needs of emerging and future-oriented industries.
She said that there is strong demand for talent in fields such as artificial intelligence and big data
“Judging from this trend, the Chinese economy’s long-term sound fundamentals remain unchanged, and the high-quality development has solid support,” Wang said.
She said that there are many favorable conditions for doing a good job on employment and they are confident in maintaining the steady trend of employment.
Wang disclosed that China’s job market has gotten off to a good start since the beginning of this year.
She said that enterprises have resumed production, migrant workers have returned to work in a smooth and orderly manner.
China’s employment maintained continuous improvement and overall stability in 2023. A total of 12.44 million new urban jobs were created and the surveyed urban unemployment rate averaged 5.2 percent, which met the set targets and played a positive role in improving people’s well-being and stabilizing social expectations.