Major Contradictions in China’s Current Employment Sector and Countermeasures*

LAI Desheng1  and LI Chang’an2

1 School of Economics and Business Administration, Beijing Normal University
2 School of Public Administration, University of International Business and Economics

Abstract:

In the six decades since the founding of the People’s Republic, especially in the more than three decades since the reform and opening-up, China has achieved remarkable success in its employment sector. However, there are still many contradictions standing in the way of an employment enlargement-oriented development strategy, for example, contradictions between economic growth and employment growth, between the heavy industry-oriented national economy and employment enlargement, between rural labor transfer and the mounting urban employment pressure and between “hard to find jobs” and “shortage of skilled workers”. Only when we carefully analyze underlying reasons for these contradictions can we develop corrective employment expansion strategies.

Key Words:

employment contradictions, growth mode, development strategies, structural reform

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