China rolls out efforts to help ethnic youths land jobs

(Xinhua) 07:05, March 03, 2014

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BEIJING, March 2 -- State-level efforts have been rolled out to improve employmentconditions of the young people in areas inhabited by ethnic minorities, a Chinese officialsaid Sunday.

Lyu Xinhua, spokesman for the annual session of the National Committee of the ChinesePeople's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), said the committee has madesuggestions to increase financial and policy support in this field based on investigation.

"When we say we pay great attention to the employment of the young people of ethnicminorities, we mean it," the spokesman told a press conference.

Lyu cited an example of investigation teams sent by the CPPCC National Committee fromApril to June 2013 to Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Xinjiang Uygur AutonomousRegion and Shanghai, on a mission to address how to improve vocational education inethnic minority regions.

Lyu also introduced a program that enrolls middle school students from four ethnic-minority-inhabited prefectures in southern Xinjiang to receive three-year vocationaleducation in nine provinces and municipalities across the country.

Each student is provided by the Ministry of Finance with financial aid of 5,000 yuan (about817 U.S. dollars) every year to cover their tuition fees and living costs.

Some 3,000 students, who were first enrolled in the program in 2011, will graduate thisyear, Lyu said.

"We hope they can land the jobs they want. And the government also has the responsibilityto help them get jobs," the spokesman said.

（Editor：GaoYinan、Yao Chun）

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