This photo taken on March 18, 2023 shows a view of a job fair in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. More than 500 on-line and off-line recruiting events have been scheduled during this job fair, the largest of its kind in recent years held in the province, offering over 115,000 vacant positions in total. (Photo:Xinhua)

China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security will sponsor a series of special recruitment events for college graduates in large and medium-sized cities from Sunday to May 26, vowing to promote high-quality employment, the ministry said on its official WeChat account on Sunday.

Aimed at 2023 college graduates and those from previous years who haven't found jobs, the on-site hiring event will mobilize all kinds of employers and human resource service agencies. 

In cities faced with too many graduates and high employment pressure, especially in China's central and western provinces, cross-regional touring job fairs will be held to provide more employment opportunities.

The first phase of the campaign, running from Sunday to March 29, will include 67 special service activities, including 19 on-site job fairs, eight cross-regional touring job fairs, and 26 online job fairs targeting manufacturing, medicine and health, the internet and cross-border e-commerce.

North China's Tianjin, for instance, will kick off a large-scale on-site job fair on March 25, while South China's Guangdong Province will hold a special recruiting fair to seek talent for the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry from Monday to March 24.

These efforts will provide more cross-regional jobs for graduates, helping relieve the employment pressure of densely populated provinces and regions.

China will have nearly 11.58 million fresh college graduates to seek jobs this year, a new record, according to the ministry. 

In order to promote full employment of college graduates, China is pursuing an "employment first" strategy, and it vows to take multiple steps to stabilize jobs market and explore new forms of employment.

Shanghai on Friday kicked off one of its largest on-site job fairs, attended by 32,000 college graduates and more than 1,500 employers participated in the event held at Shanghai Polytechnic University. 

The event featured more than 37,000 vacancies, and the employers included state-owned enterprises and the world's largest conglomerates in integrated circuits and biomedicine.

Chinese government said it will try to create 12 million urban jobs in 2023 and targets a surveyed urban unemployment rate of around 5.5 percent.

Data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed that China's job market remained largely stable in 2022, with 12.06 million new urban jobs created, exceeding the annual target of 11 million.

Global Times