Special funding earmarked to create more jobs in Tibet ( 2003-09-29 16:28) (Xinhua)
Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region has set aside 46.95 million yuan
(US$5.66 million) this year to help more urban residents in Tibet find jobs.
Information from a regional conference on employment and re-employment that
opened last Saturday said that the money includes 13 million yuan (US$1.57
million) in state assistance funds and 3.95 million yuan (US$475,900) from the
insurance pooling program against unemployment.
The Tibet Autonomous Regional government has set a goal of creating 10,000
new jobs and limiting the urban unemployment rate to around 4.5 percent this
year. Relevant departments of the regional government have adopted a range of
measures to help more urban residents, including vocational training courses and
offering services to unemployed people, such as vocational guidance and
introduction of new jobs.
Labor and social security departments of Tibet offered training courses to
4,193 laid off workers in the first eight months of this year, of whom, 2,069
have found new jobs.
Tibet will concentrate efforts on boosting service trade and labor-intensive
enterprises, encourage and support development of the private economy so that
more jobs will be created.
In the meantime, efforts will also be made to step up construction of a
social security network and to safeguard the legitimate rights of
laborers. So far, 8,829 people have been re-employed in this region, dubbed
the "roof of the world", including 4,998 laid off workers.
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