官方数据显示 我国上半年就业形势稳中向好
China's urban unemployment rate fell to 3.83 percent in June, the lowest since 2002, the top human resources authority announced last Monday. The country's employment structure also improved. Officials and experts attributed the development to a steady economic rise and a higher-quality labor force. "There were 7.52 million new urban jobs offered in the first half of the year, up 170,000 from a year earlier," said Lu Aihong, a spokesman for the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. Lu said the ratio of jobs to job hunters was 1.23-to-1, a rise of 0.12 jobs per worker from the same period last year. That means the job supply continued to exceed the number of job seekers. Yang Yiyong, director of the Society Development Institute, part of the National Development and Reform Commission, said the positive employment picture over nearly two decades is the result of rapid economic growth. "Better economic growth means more business and more orders for companies. So that requires more factories and machines to do the work, which of course results in greater demand for workers to do the jobs," he said. Lu said the employment structure continued to be optimized due to more jobs from tertiary industries. According to the ministry, people employed in tertiary industries accounted for 44.9 percent of workers in 2017, compared with 34.6 percent in 2010. |