Member Yan Qi: Present solution to employment issue

"My proposal this year is also about the issue of unemployment. We are initiating a "breakfast project" where small restaurants try to recruit more unemployed people, including university students."

Zheng Gongcheng, NPC deputy

"The governments and the employers should endeavor to stabilize the current employment situation."

Sun Hengchao,CPPCC member

"Vocational schools often need the money to buy equipment for hands-on training. And they must always help students update their practical skills to satisfy market needs."

Qi Jinli ,NPC deputy

"We´re very worried that a large number of migrant workers in Luohe have returned home waiting for jobs.

Zhao Mantang, CPPCC member

"One of my proposals is on the employment situation among rural migrant workers. It´s about people´s livelihoods, so it´s both economic and social."

Migrant workers hope for employment aid

On a train from Sichuan province, where millions of migrant workers come from, to the eastern economic hub of Shanghai, many migrant workers say employment is their top concern.."

A Sichuan migrant worker,"There is little land left at home to cultivate, so we really hope our employment will be taken care of at the meetings

·Job creation
The government aims to build 510,000 "countryside" stores by 2010 to increase rural spending and add jobs

Shanghai plans to create 500,000 new jobs this year.

Beijing will arrange jobs for over 10,000 people in quake-hit Sichuan province this year. And at least ten percent of the positions will be located in Beijing.

·Preferential policies
In the quake-hit areas of Sichuan Province, returned migrant workers will enjoy tax cuts if they find new jobs at home.

In Weishi county, Henan Province, technician training schools will receive 300 to 600 yuan worth of subsidies for each worker they train. Over the past two months, local schools have trained around 1000 workers.

·Training
Beijing will launch training sessions every week to help and guide migrant workers to find a new job as easily as possible.

·Preferential policies
Giving financial support to those graduates who start their own business

Offering subsidies and proper coverage of social security to college graduates who work in rural areas, at grassroots urban communities, and in smaller enterprises

University students who work in remote areas of the country´s middle and western parts for a certain period, or serve in the army after graduation, could be exempted from part of the tuition or schooling loans.

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·Training program launched
The government is launching a new training program to help college graduates find jobs. The program aims to create work for one million unemployed college graduates