Governments across China help migrant workers go back to work or find new jobs

Authorities across China are beefing up efforts to transport migrant workers to their workplaces and provide new employment opportunities as the country is embracing a resumption of work after the Spring Festival holiday concluded.

The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and eight other government departments jointly launched a special campaign with a string of online and offline activities from January 25 to April 8.

Offline job fairs were held in cities ranging from southwest China's Chongqing Municipality to east China's Shandong Province.

On February 20, Banan District in Chongqing Municipality held its first job fair in the Year of the Dragon, and a total of 50 enterprises offered more than 2,500 jobs, attracting a large number of job seekers. There will be more than 30 job fairs to be held in the district until the end of March.

In regions hit with extreme weather, local authorities came up with online job fairs to help promote employment.

Facing the heavy snow which hindered traffic, Wang Bo, head of the Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security of Xuchang City in central China's Henan Province, said local authorities utilized the network including mini programs related to employment on popular messaging app WeChat to carry out online recruitment, providing convenience for non-local enterprises to recruit local talents.

In addition to employment, authorities in different regions of the country also helped with the transportation of migrant workers through chartered trains, flights and buses.

In Qianxinan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Guizhou Province, local authorities helped local residents return to work by chartered flights and buses.

Tang Hongyao, a local resident, is glad to take the free chartered bus to return to work in south China's Guangzhou City.

Remembering how hard it was for him to buy a ticket back to Guangzhou in past years, Tang said the free chartered bus not only sent him and his wife directly to their workplace, but also saved them a car fare of 700 yuan (nearly $97).