A report by an anti-discrimination organization reveals that more than 60 percent of State-owned enterprises still require that job applicants should be tested for the hepatitis B virus.

This goes against a government stipulation jointly released a year ago by the Ministry of Health and other central government departments, which specifies that hospitals should never include a hepatitis B test in medical checkups for job recruitment purposes.

This stipulation is meant to prevent hepatitis B virus carriers from being discriminated against when applying for a job.