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employment mechanism more in line with market demand: minister (11/11/2002)
A senior Chinese official said in Beijing Monday that market demand
now plays a dominant role in allocating human resources in China.
The state has basically established a market-oriented employment
mechanism and a nationwide social security system, Zhang Zuoji,
Minister of Labor and Social Security, said at a press conference
held on the sidelines of the ongoing 16th National Congress of the
Communist Party of China (CPC).
The years since the Fourth Plenary Session of the 13th CPC Central
Committee in 1989 have been a period in which China's labor force
has been expanding rapidly and more people have found job opportunities
in the tertiary sector and private sector, he said.
According to Zhang, the number of people employed across the country
rose to 730 million in 2001 from 650 million in 1990.
The number of workers in state-owned enterprises fell by 25 million
during the period, while the number of workers in the private sector
chalked up an increase of nearly 30 million.
The systems of unemployment insurance and government allowances
for laid-off workers and low-income urban residents have also been
set up in the meantime, he said.
(Xinhua)
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