Guizhou boosts employment in urban, rural areas

Since the start of 2021, Southwest China's Guizhou province has reportedly boosted its employment support for people from low-income families and helped them find jobs throughout East China.

By the end of October, Guizhou had 1.92 million people relocated from impoverished areas – 991,400 of whom with the capacity for physical labor – and 928,400 secured jobs. At that time, Guizhou had an estimated 3.36 million people working outside the province.

Guizhou also launched on-site and online job fairs to help rural people find jobs. From January to November, it also had an estimated 2,239 workshops in place for poverty alleviation, providing jobs to 250,400 people, as well as 755 employment and entrepreneurship service centers in residential settlement communities, helping 212,200 people to be employed.

During the period, the province recorded 634,200 newly employed people in urban areas, as well as 141,900 people who were re-employed – and 75,400 people who had difficulties finding jobs secured positions. By the end of November, Guizhou's registered unemployment rate in urban areas was down to 4.3 percent.

Moving forwards, plans are for Guizhou to continue to stabilize its employment and provide more job opportunities. It will reportedly assist people who have difficulties to find positions and monitor the employment situation closely in the province.