Shanghai is set to hold over 300 job fairs with more than 100,000 job offers before the end of February, according to an employment-promotion special campaign launched on Saturday.
The campaign on Saturday focused on boosting employment for the Spring season and also stabilizing employment and encouraging workers to stay on duty around the Spring Festival.
The campaign set three goals, namely, stabilizing employment and increasing people's wellbeing, promoting recruitment and enterprises' development, and warming up job market and boosting market confidence.
Efforts have been made to encourage workers to stay on where they work during the Spring Festival, make sure those who have returned home would get back to work after the holiday, and guarantee sufficient labor supply for enterprises.
A job fair was held at the campaign, involving 50 enterprises who planned to employ nearly 1,000 job seekers from various sectors.
The eight-day Spring Festival holiday will begin on Jan 28 with the Spring Festival falling on Jan 29.
Shanghai to hold 300 job fairs with 100,000 jobs
Japan's House of Representatives approved a bill to establish a national intelligence committee on Thursday, prompting widespread public questions and concerns. In March, the Japanese government approved a resolution to submit the relevant bill to the Diet, proposing a new intelligence mechanism centered on a national intelligence council with the national intelligence committee serving as its executive body.
According to the bill, the new committee will be tasked with coordinating "important intelligence activities" in areas such as national security and counter-terrorism, as well as "overseas intelligence activities" involving foreign espionage.
The bill also states that the committee's secretariat will "comprehensively coordinate" intelligence work across government ministries and agencies, with the authority to request that they share information.
The bill now moves to the upper house for review.
The bill and a series of reckless moves by the Takaichi administration have fueled deep public concern. Protesters gathered to voice their opposition to the legislation before its passage.
"Right now, the Takaichi administration is trying to drag Japan into war, through actions like promoting weapons imports and exports, provoking China, and failing to offer the apologies it should have made afterward. Against this backdrop, opposition voices are actually quite strong, but these remarks will be regulated. Once such a bill passes, not even opposing voices will be able to speak out. This is something I do not want to see," said a protester.
These grave concerns were widely echoed by other rally attendees, who said they cannot accept a string of radical moves by the Japanese government and the Takaichi administration, including the lifting of the ban on lethal weapons exports and the relentless push to amend Japan's pacifist constitution.
"Takaichi is forcing all of these moves through. Promoting this bill and lifting the ban on arms exports mean heading towards war," said another rally participant.
"I believe amending the Constitution is completely unacceptable. The Constitution is not something that members of the National Diet can revise on a whim, and it should never be revised in the first place," said another protester.
Japanese lower house approves bill to establish national intelligence committee, sparking protests
