Guangdong Plans 1.2 Million Jobs for 2008

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May 6 – The provincial government of Guangdong province has unveiled plans of providing 1.2 million jobs for 2008. The plans will also provide wider coverage for migrant workers like social insurance, endowment, medical, unemployment, injury at work, and maternity insurance to name a few.

Fifty percent of the target 1.2 million jobs are expected to be newly-generated, a 28 percent increase from last year’s figure.

Lin Jingqing, director of the labor relations division of the provincial labor and social security department, told China Daily: “More people will be included in our social security system this year, embodying the Labor Contract Law implemented by the central government at the start of the year.”

For 2007, Guangdong’s 10.55 million resident workers and 13.5 million migrant workers were provided with work and medical insurance – one-third of China’s total. This year, migrant workers with work insurance should increase by 13.3 million while those with medical insurance will jump by 13.6 million.

The government hopes the plan will give new jobs to the province’s 600,000 unemployed.
The department is also trying to secure a 12 percent wage increase for the province’s workers, added Lin Wangping, vice-director of the labor department.

An estimated 20,000 people will be given technical training to further enhance the province’s industrial development. In addition, training programs will be offered to encourage people to venture into new businesses.