Vice-Premier Huang Ju congratulated the Ministry of Labor and Social Security
(MLSS) and two other organizations Monday on the launch of a week-long
nationwide program to inspire private businesses to employ workers laid off from
state-owned firms.
China's Vice-Premier Huang Ju [file
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Huang, also a member of the Standing
Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central
Committee, said in his message that the central government attached great
importance to employment projects.
The launch of the private firms job fair would provide opportunities for
skilled workers, vocational and technical graduates, laid-off and migrant
workers, Huang said.
Huang said in his message to the MLSS and the two other organizations that he
hoped labor and social security departments, labor unions and federations of
industry and commerce would conduct a successful job fair to boost reemployment
and the building of a harmonious society in China.
The private business job fair is a non-profit fair organized by the MLSS, the
All-China Federation of Trade Unions and All-China Federation of Industry and
Commerce, which aims to provide workers for private business and job
opportunities for laborers.
This year's private business employment week is to hold job fairs in
communities, districts, counties and municipalities in 100 major cities around
China.
This year, the government has allocated 185.98 billion yuan (23 billion U.S.
dollars), an increase of 23.6 billion yuan (about 2.95 billion U.S. dollars)
over last year, to keep increasing employment and improving social security.
A similar program was held in 2005, which helped approximately 200,000 people
find jobs.
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Chinese Vice Premier Huang Ju is hospitalized and is recovering, an official
confirmed in Beijing on Thursday, March 2.
"Comrade Huang Ju did not feel well not long ago and was hospitalized for
treatment, and he is recovering now," Wu Jianmin, spokesman for the fourth
session of the 10th national committee of the Chinese People's Political
Consultative Conference, said at a press conference.
But Wu did not say what disease Huang suffered.
Huang, 66, sits on the nine-member Standing Committee of the
Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of
China.