College students attend a job fair at Beijing Union University on April 28, 2023.Photo: VCG

 
Chinese authorities will further elevate publicity efforts for supportive policies for youth employment, a move illustrating China's continuous efforts to stabilize youth employment. 

Starting from Monday, the authorities will launch a promotion week nationwide for the policy measures offered by local authorities for youth employment and entrepreneurship, along with targeted publicity activities at enterprises, campuses and communities, the Xinhua News Agency reported. 

The launch aims to boost the effect of the supportive policies while ensuring as many eligible young applicants and enterprises as possible can learn about them and take advantage of the benefits. 

Various activities will be carried out to suit the needs of different targeted groups. For instance, "one-to-one" policy guidance and personal job application plans will be offered in local communities for unemployed young people.

The launch of the promotion week is another aspect of China's increasing efforts to support youth employment amid a gradually recovering job market. 

North China's Tianjin recently launched a scheme with 10 tasks to promote local youth employment and entrepreneurship, covering aspects such as supportive policies for medium-, small- and micro-sized firms so that they can employ graduates and boost the professional skills of young people. 

The Communist Youth League of China previously launched a campaign to help young people find job opportunities, with 35,000 college students obtaining jobs this year. The campaign has produced offers of 879,000 positions at 52,000 enterprises. 

China's surveyed urban unemployment rate in April declined 0.1 percentage points to 5.2 percent, but the youth unemployment rate - for those aged 16-24 - rose from 19.6 percent in March to 20.4 percent, according to official data. 

Industry insiders said that China's overall job market has been picking up, as shown by the falling urban unemployment rate. The relatively high youth unemployment rate is largely down to structural contradictions in the nation's industrial upgrading process, but China has been implementing measures to tackle the obstacles.