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To: RealMuLan who wrote (3113)	4/26/2004 12:09:41 PM
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Figures and facts: China's employment situation www.chinaview.cn 2004-04-26 16:50:04 BEIJING, April 26 (Xinhuanet) -- The Information Office of the State Council of China Monday issued a white paper titled "China' s Employment Situation and Policies" to detail the employment situation and policies in China. Following are some figures and facts from the document: -- From 1990 to 2003, the employed population in China increased by 96.83 million, an average increase of 7.45 million per annum. -- From 1990 to 2003, the proportion of those employed in tertiary industry rose steadily from 18.5 percent to 29.3 percent,with the number of employees reaching 218.09 million. -- From 1990 to 2003, the number of those employed by urban individual and private economic entities increased by 35.96 million, representing 46.5 percent of the newly employed in the urban areas in the same period. -- By the end of 2003, the registered unemployment rate in the urban areas was 4.3 percent, and the number of registered jobless urbanites was eight million. -- In 2004, the Chinese Government has planned to find employment or reemployment for nine million people, and reemployment for five million laid-off persons. The registered unemployment rate in the urban areas is planned to be controlled at around 4.7 percent. -- In 2003,the expenditure of the national unemployment insurance fund was 20 billion yuan (2.4 billion US dollars). By the end of 2003, 103.73 million people throughout the country had underwritten unemployment insurance policies and 4.15 million people received unemployment insurance pay by the year. -- From 1998 to 2003, the accumulative total number of persons laid off from state-owned enterprises in China was 28.18 million. -- From 1998 to 2003, the central budget put aside a total of 73.1 billion yuan (8.8 billion US dollars) for basic subsistence and reemployment of laid-off workers from state-owned enterprises. -- In 1998, the Chinese Government established the system of "three guarantees," namely, guarantee of basic subsistence allowance for laid-offs from state-owned enterprises, guarantee ofunemployment insurance, and guarantee of minimum subsistence allowance for urban residents. -- At present, China have successively established 5,062 three-party consultation mechanisms at various other levels, connecting the government, the trade union and the enterprise for the purposeof communication and consultation on major issues involving labor relations. -- Of all the enterprise employees in China, 34 million received job-related skill training in 2003. -- There are some 80,000 vocational skill evaluation institutions and 180,000 people engaged in vocational skill evaluation and examination in China. By now, 45 million vocationalqualification certificates have been issued. -- In 2003, more than 98 million rural laborers took up jobs outside their townships, over six times the figure of 15 million in 1990. -- The government has worked out the "National Plan for Training Rural Migrant Workers, 2003-2010" to improve vocational training for rural workforce, and planned to provide guiding training and vocational skill training to the 60 million prospective rural migrant laborers in the coming seven years. -- Today, there are 41.56 million women employees in urban units, accounting for 38 percent of the total employees in urban units. The female population in employment in China's urban and rural areas increased from 291 million in 1990 to 337 million in 2003. -- From 1998 to 2003, of a total of 13.36 million laid-off and unemployed women, 9.72 million of them started their own businesses or found new jobs. -- By the end of 2003, 4.031 million disabled people in urban areas throughout China had found employment, while 16.852 million disabled people are in employment in rural areas. The employment rate of the disabled overall is 83.9 percent. -- In the period of the Tenth Five-Year Plan (2001-2005), the population of working age is growing at the fastest rate, increasing by 13.6 million annually on average. While the population of working age keeps increasing, there are now 150 million rural surplus laborers who need to be transferred, and over 11 million unemployed and laid-off persons who need to be employed or reemployed. Enditem news.xinhuanet.com