China launches new campaign to boost employment among college graduates

China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security has launched a special action plan to boost the employment of college graduates across the country, said an official with the ministry at a press conference in Beijing on Tuesday.

Zhang Wenmiao, director of the Human Resource Mobility Management Department under the ministry, said the project has mobilized 251,000 employers to provide about 4.77 million job positions across the country. Over 6,138 human resource service agencies participated in it, attracting 2.86 million job seekers, including college graduates. Among them, 585,000 reached preliminary employment agreements.

"The employment service campaign focuses primarily on the 2025 cohort of college graduates, as well as those from previous years who remain unemployed after graduation, and participants in grassroots programs such as the 'Three Supports and One Assistance' plan (a program that sends college graduates to rural areas to support education, agriculture, healthcare and poverty alleviation). We have mobilized a range of human resource service agencies, national human resource service industry parks, and talent markets to widely offer market-oriented job positions. We have also innovated recruitment methods by organizing a series of activities, including online and offline job fairs, live-streaming recruitment events, and bringing human resource services directly to college campuses," the official said.

The ministry also introduced new policies to support employment and entrepreneurship for young people. These measures include expanding public sector job opportunities, encouraging private sector recruitment, and encouraging graduates to seek employment in grassroots communities and small- and medium-sized enterprises.

In total, the ministry offered job-seeking subsidies to over 2 million disadvantaged college graduates, particularly those from low-income urban families, rural poor families, and families with disabled members.

China launches new campaign to boost employment among college graduates

China's first express rail-sea intermodal train connecting southern Xinjiang in northwest China to the Yangtze River Delta in east China departed from Aksu on Monday, opening an efficient new corridor for Xinjiang's exports.

The train, loaded with cotton fabrics and other local products, will cross six provinces or regions to reach the Ningbo-Zhoushan Port on the east coast. Operating under a seamless "no container swapping, no transshipment" model, the service cuts transit time from more than 10 days to about five and slashes logistics costs by more than 20 percent per standard container.

Aksu produces more than 90 percent of China's long-staple cotton, yet geographical constraints previously forced more than 90 percent of its products to be exported westward through Central Asia. The new rail route gives southern Xinjiang's cotton textiles a stable, efficient gateway to global markets via the east coast.

China's first express rail-sea intermodal train from southern Xinjiang to Yangtze River Delta begins service