341.5 thousand jobs were created in Jiangsu in the first quarter of this year, latest statistics show.
120 private enterprises provided nearly 7000 jobs for job seekers at the one-month recruitment month for Chinese private enterprises in 2021 that was launched last Wednesday in Wujiang District, Suzhou City.
The Jiangbei New Area in Nanjing launched a job fair for demobilized soldiers.
"I hope to find a job in the big health or new energy industries that have been placed under the country’s strategic promotion plan.That is the industries that are strongly supported in the '14th Five-Year Plan'."said by Wu Dianwei, An ex-serviceman.
"We have launched job fairs in the communities and organize no less than 20 online and offline job fairs every month.We will organize special job fairs for college students and professional and technical personnel."said by Chen Ying, Deputy Director of the Education and Social Security Bureau of Nanjing Jiangbei New Area.
Jiangsu will see more than 600 thousand college graduates this summer. The provincial authorities have started to offer full-range service chains that include the reserved recruitment proportion of no less than 70% for fresh college graduates and the establishment of 12973 internship bases to accommodate 12900 college graduates.
Nanjing has hosted 427 job fairs for college graduates since the start of this year with 150 thousand job vacancies provided.
Nearly 4000 job seekers reached initial intent of employment at a job fair held recently in Zhenjiang city.
From January to February this year, the added value of Jiangsu's industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 48.2% year-on-year, and increased by 22.9% from the same period of 2019.
The steady and rapid economic growth has provided workers with a steady stream of job demand. At the same time, various tax relief and social security policies have helped companies reduce production costs, which are conducive to creating job opportunities.
"The company has planned to expand production this year and is expected to add nearly 600 jobs.In February this year all employees had their wages increased."said by Liu Wenting, Recruitment Manager,Yangzhou Yangjie Electronic Technology Co., Ltd.
Supported by a slew of preferential policies, Jiangsu registered an employment of 341.5 thousand people in the first three months of this year, up 17.14% from the same period of 2019.
60.7 thousand people in Jiangsu launched their startups to create 237 thousand jobs, up 61.3% and 60.6% from the same period of 2019.
The urban unemployment rate was kept under 2.93%, lower than the level before the outbreak of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Key enterprises placed under monitoring had hired 2.855 million workers as of the end of March, up 2.46% month-on-month from the end of February.
