China’s HR Ministry pushes jobs plan at inter-departmental meeting

TREE NEWS update: China’s Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security held a meeting on Oct. 28 to advance its action plan for stabilizing, expanding and upgrading employment, urging departments to prioritize the plan and target key industries and sectors to unlock job opportunities. The ministry called for building a “big employment” framework under which managing industry, promoting consumption and launching projects all serve job creation, and said tasks set out in the plan must be completed on schedule.