Qingzhen boosts employment to alleviate poverty

Qingzhen, a county-city in Southwest China's Guizhou province, has been increasing employment by various means during the novel coronavirus epidemic to alleviate poverty and ensure the operational resumption of local companies, according to local officials. 

Qingzhen has adopted a series of measures including issuing subsidies targeting poverty alleviation, developing public welfare posts, expanding online and offline recruitment, furthering vocational training and transporting local laborers to other provinces for work. 

The city has issued poverty alleviation and employment funds of more than 2.7 million yuan ($381,149) and developed 100 public sanitation job posts in nine local towns for local poor households.

It has announced and updated local recruitment and job fairs information on online employment service platforms including gyrc.com.cn and gzggzpw.gzsrs.cn -- to help job seekers find suitable jobs through their smart phones and the internet.

To date, it has held seven online job fairs with a total of 201 companies participating, offering more than 26,800 positions and more than 700 people have reached preliminary employment agreements with companies.

Meanwhile, the city has also staged three sessions of vocational training sessions involving Chinese cooking, nursery and entrepreneurship -- as well as having trained 450 company employees online.

The city has been busy beyond its borders. It has supplied laborers elsewhere, with 93 migrant workers having been sent from Qingzhen to Zhejiang province. 

Additionally, Qingzhen has put of 233,000 yuan of subsidies in place for seven local companies, to support their resumption of operations and production.