China’s labor-intensive industries were hit hard by extreme zero-COVID measures, with business woes continuing this year, leaving the employment outlook bleak for rural migrant workers.
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping on April 29 stressed in a Central Political Bureau economic meeting of the need to “expand employment channels”.
Xi also emphasized the need to “stabilize the employment” of critical populations such as college graduates and rural migrant workers.
Wang Pingping, director of the Bureau of Statistics Population and Employment Statistics Department, summarized the country’s employment situation for 2022 in a Jan. 18 working report.
“The surveyed unemployment rate of migrant agricultural household labor force is still high … job market has not yet fully recovered,” said Wang….