Vice-premier Huang Ju has highlighted the need to create more jobs
and offer employment services for college and university graduates
this year.
At
yesterday's nationally televised conference on graduate employment,
Huang said this year's graduates were the first to experience
China's reforms in increasing enrollments in universities and
colleges, which meant the number of college graduates would be much
greater this year than usual.
Huang urged all sectors of society to create more job opportunities
for these graduates, and encouraged graduates to start their own
businesses where local employment opportunities were limited.
Because most job fairs have been suspended in China due to SARS,
the Ministry of Education recently asked universities to arrange
small-scale meetings and interviews with potential employers and to
ensure graduation-related matters proceed smoothly.
The ministry has called on local administrations and universities
to help graduates with their job-hunting.
It
has also asked universities and employment agencies to make full
use of the Internet and other media to release job information and
organize on-line recruitment.
Over 2 million students will graduate from university this year,
about 700,000 more than last year.
(China Daily June 6, 2003)