China faces a major challenge in meeting its goal of creating 9 million jobs this year, a senior official admitted yesterday.

"Based on the current employment situation, the country faces huge job pressure and a grim market in the coming few years," Tian Chengping, minister of labor and social security, said on the sidelines of the ongoing session of the National People's Congress.

A crowded job fair in Guangzhou on December 5, 2006. China faces a major challenge in meeting its goal of creating 9 million jobs this year, Tian Chengping, minister of labor and social security, said on the sidelines of the ongoing session of the National People's Congress. [newsphoto]

The continuing reform of State-owned enterprises will create a huge number of laid-off workers, who will find it difficult to find new jobs, he said.

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