Beijing municipal gov't to offer jobs to unemployed graduates

Special Report:Global Financial Crisis

BEIJING, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Beijing's municipal government has planned to
offer about 80,000 job vacancies next month to local university graduates who
fail to find working places.

However, those job offers will be available only to graduates who hold a
Beijing permanent residence permit, the municipal bureau of personnel was quoted
as saying by the China Daily on Wednesday.

As an effort to cope with the global economic downturn, the bureau requires
job hunters to register at related departments in Beijing's 18 districts and
counties, who will match them with suitable employers, said Lu Lin, director of
the bureau's college graduate employment department.

At least 210,000 local college graduates are expected to enter the job
market this year, 14,000 more than last year, according to the Beijing Municipal
Education Commission. More than 90,000 of them will hold such kind of residence
permit.

"If the district or county does not have a suitable position to match the
graduates, the authorities should recommend the graduates to other districts or
counties," said Lu.

Beijing authorities will offer 80,000 job vacancies for the graduates
through 150 career fairs in the next month, the official said.

The municipal education commission has said Beijing will hire college
graduates as community assistants starting this year to encourage them to work
at the grassroots level.