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Vice Premier Wu Bangguo said Wednesday that more substantial
efforts should be made to provide more job opportunities for
laid-off workers and develop and improve social security system.
Wu, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau
of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said that
as China's social security system remained incomplete, the system
is yet to be further improved. The pressure on the employment and
reemployment is on rise, he acknowledged, and some of the on-job
workers are still in difficulties.
During the discussion of a delegation of deputies from east China's
Anhui Province to the on-going first session of the 10th National
People's Congress (NPC), Wu said the laid-offs from the state-owned
enterprises should be paid timely and in full, and the basic
pensions for retirees and subsistence allowances for the urban
needy be guaranteed.
Quoting Party General Secretary Hu Jintao as saying that solving
the difficulties of the needy workers should be considered a major
matter of overriding importance, he said everything possible should
be explored to further expand employment and reemployment.
More avenues should be open for employment and reemployment, said
Wu, and the role of the tertiary business and private sectors
should be given fuller scope in the endeavor of job creation.
Reemployment service should be improved and reemployment training
for the laid-offs should be stepped up so as to help raise their
technical competence, Wu Bangguo said.
(Xinhua News Agency March 6, 2003)
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