China Exclusive: China’s rural unemployed find work through on-line job system

      SHIJIAZHUANG, August 15 (Xinhua) -- Wang Guoqing, the son of a farming family from Huangshi village, north China’s Hebei Province, is preparing to leave for Shanghai.
      The 20-year-old has been hired as a security guard there after learning of the company’s job advertisement through the central government-funded on-line job information system.
      After a one-year probation, Wang will be paid 2,000 yuan a month, almost a fifth of his family’s entire annual net income.
      He is one of the many unemployed rural laborers to find a job since the expansion of the government-supported on-line job information system to the countryside.
      A program called "fully employed community", previously conducted in urban areas, has been introduced in the rural areas of north China’s Hebei Province and reaches town-level administrations.
      "I’m glad I can help my father support the family. I could not have found such a good job so quickly without the help of our job official," Wang says.
      He is speaking of Liu Sanbei, Party head of Huangshi Village, who has become busier since he was appointed job official this year.
      Liu conveys information from monthly briefings held at the employment service center at Beiwangli Town, which has helped more than 400 villagers to find jobs in Shanghai, Guangdong and Baoding.
      "It’s hard for our farmers to get jobs without help from the right places," said Liu. "Some of our villagers go to the cities, wander the streets and come back unemployed, and others turn to job agencies, which often exaggerate pay or conceal harsh working conditions."
      Huangshi has another 200 farmers struggling to find jobs because they are either poorly educated or lack vocational training, said Liu.
      The expansion of the system, part of Hebei’s rural poverty alleviation program, is expected to help more farmers, who usually have been poorly informed, to find jobs -- at no charge.
I      n the midst of unprecedented urbanization, falling earnings have driven evermore farmers to find new lives in the cities.
      Ministry of Labor and Social Security figures show China has about 200 million migrant workers, with more than 120 million in cities and the rest in smaller towns, but another 100 million unemployed farmers stay at home.
      In Hebei alone, around 1.2 million farmers are seeking jobs -- most come from families with financial difficulties, said Tian Fen, deputy director of the provincial labor and social security department.
      The farmers usually have to pay 200 to 300 yuan, almost half of their family’s monthly net income, to job agencies, and then they are frequently cheated with false fake job information, said Tian.
      However, the info-system, linked with the networks operated by the labor departments in provincial administrations, collects job information across the country and provide it to jobseekers for free, said Tian.
      To ensure the farmers get the information, the departments appoint job officials in villages without access to the system, and they are responsible for its distribution and for villagers’ responses.
      "Our target is to help at least 90 percent of unemployed farmers find jobs," said Tian.
      So far, more than 2,000 towns in Hebei are included in the info-system and more than 10,000 villages, or 18 percent of the province’s total, have a job official, according to Tian.
      "Actually, vocational training has lagged behind market demand, " said Tian, adding Hebei planned to provide free professional training for 800,000 farmers this year, almost twice as many as last year.
      The training information will also be published through the info-system, said the official. Enditem

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                           中国独家报道：中国通过健全网络让农村富余劳动力实现充分就业
      新华社石家庄８月１５日电（记者张涛）马上要起程到上海参加保安培训的河北省石家庄市赵县村民王国庆，今年刚２０岁，他高兴地说，过去交农业税、办户口才找村干部，现在村干部挺负责任的，要是没有他们的帮助，自己不能这么快找到工作。到了上海，试用一年后，工资为２０００元。
      河北省石家庄市赵县北王里镇黄市村的村主任刘三辈今年又多了一项新任务：为本村的剩余劳动力联系工作。作为中国最底层的“就业官”，他每月都要到镇就业服务所召开一次就业信息通气会，镇就业服务所的就业信息平台与县、市、省是联网的，从那里可以获知外界的最新岗位需求。他每次开完通气会回村后，总是第一时间把得到的信息通过村广播告知村民。
　　刘三辈说，他手头有“剩余劳动力转移名单”“剩余劳动力未转移名单”两本台账。全村一共有１０８０个劳动力，过去都以种地为生，现在种地不赚钱了，壮劳力纷纷外出打工。但是有相当一部分人靠自己联系不到用人单位，到去年底时，还有６００多个有就业愿望的村民等活儿。他最近从镇就业服务所带来的就业信息派上用场：广东东莞一家服装厂要来赵县招２００个工人，他们村有６０多个人报名录用了３０多个；上海市一个保安公司来石家庄招１００多个保安，他们村有８０多个人报名录用了２０多个；保定市一家建筑公司招大量工人，他们村有１０人被录用。
　　“优先被招用的劳动力都是条件好的，剩下的这些人工作就不好联系了”，刘三辈说，村里相当一部分剩余劳动力文化不高，缺少技能，对外界基本没有什么了解，要找工作必须参加技能培训，可是县就业局提供的免费培训名额也有限，他一直为这事发愁。
　　这些天，刘三辈不仅定期到镇就业服务所，还亲自到附近一些个体企业跑，询问那里用不用工人。他说，占他们村土地的一家雨鞋厂已经答应录用十几个工人，这让他很高兴，黄市村离“充分就业”越来越近了。
　　“充分就业”，这一工作要求在中国城市就业干部中已深入人心，如今开始向农村延伸。河北省石家庄市从今年开始，借鉴创建城市“充分就业社区”的做法开展创建“充分就业村”活动，就业工作成为了像刘三辈一样的众多村干部一项新任务。
　　创建“充分就业社区”是中国劳动保障部提出的一项促进就业再就业工作的新举措，其标准主要包括：社区登记失业人员再就业率不低于９０％、“４０５０”人员再就业率不低于９５％、“零就业家庭”基本消除。
　　“一个村就是一个社区，一个村解决了富余劳动力就业问题，就等于创建了一个充分就业社区。”石家庄市就业服务局就业处负责人公维良说，这个市将政府公益性的就业服务平台延伸到村：每个村设立就业信息联络员，由村支书或村主任兼任。制定了“充分就业村”标准：本村９０％以上的剩余劳动力就业，确保证困难家庭中至少一人就业。依照上述标准，市就业部门制定了《石家庄市农村充分就业社区考核评估标准》（百分制），实行半年检查、年终综合考评，９０分以上的为“充分就业村”，颁发创建达标单位“铜牌”。
　　公维良说，全市确定了１００个过去基础较好、已达到标准的“充分就业村”作为典型，总结经验推广。考虑到各地经济差异，创建活动并不搞一刀切，只是提供一个奋斗目标激发村干部抓就业工作的热情。目前，全市４０００多个村已全部行动起来。
　　无极县东中铺村的村主任郭浩江说，过去村干部头脑里没就业这根“弦”，村里富余劳动力到外地打工都找中介公司，花钱不少还没保障，经常受骗。他自从当上就业信息联络员后，比照着“充分就业村”标准，整天关注两头：村里还有哪些人有就业愿望找不到活儿，上边有哪些用工信息适合本村人。自从中国取消农业税后，村干部可干的事少了，抓就业工作让村干部又“充实”起来，很有现实意义。现在，他们村９００多个剩余劳动力已有７００多人就业，他对实现“充分就业村”目标有信心。
　　郭浩江说，过去，村民们整天“赖”在村里，是非多，现在多数人有了活儿，收入提高了，再也没时间想着互相斗了。
　　创建“充分就业村”的做法得到中国高层重视。中国劳动和社会保障部一位高层指出，目前中国农村剩余劳动力已向城市转移上亿人，但任务依然重大，农村的“充分就业”对增加农民收入、促进农村稳定有着现实意义，应成为各地的奋斗目标。（完）