China’s Local Governments Go on Hiring Spree to Spur Growth

China’s provincial governments plan to boost annual recruitment of civil servants by 16% this year to 192,000, as the country seeks to bolster employment to help drive an economic recovery now that “zero Covid” has come to an end.

The governments of Gansu and Yunnan provinces, as well as those of the Guangxi Zhuang and Inner Mongolia autonomous regions, plan to hire 50% more civil servants than last year, with Gansu planning an increase of 80% — the most of any of China’s provincial-level regions, according to recent notices issued by the governments.