China's job market blossoms in Q1
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-05-30 11:24

China's job market blossomed in the first quarter of 2004, both the numbers of job vacancies and job seekers up 20 percent over the fourth quarter of 2003, according to the Personnel Ministry of China.

The ministry's statistics show that the job markets in 37 major cities across the country registered 2.912 million posts and 6.307 million job seekers, and the job/candidate ratio reached 1:2.17.

The posts related to marketing, computer science and mechanical engineering are still the hot fields on the recruiting list, while the ones involving food industry, foreign languages, accounting and education are suffering from the weak demand with a job/ candidate ratio of 1:3, according to the statistics.

Meanwhile, the demand for jobs related to advertising and chemical pharmacy remained higher than the number of applicants.

The statistics show that the major 10 job websites of the country registered 787,000 posts provided by 99,000 employers and 1.695 million job seekers, nearly 20 percent of them with master degrees.

The statistics show that the western region of China experienced a sharp rise in the numbers of offered posts and job seekers, up 47 percent and 62 percent on a quarter basis, and job/ candidate ratio reached 2.39:1, higher the national average.

In 2003 alone, there were about 24 million people who need jobs in cities, including six million workers laid off from State-owned and collective enterprises, and eight million registered jobless people, and about 10 million new job seekers such as college and technical school graduates, according to statistics from the Ministry of Labor and Social Security.

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