China Zeros In on Unemployed Youth With Six-Month Job Skills Campaign

The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security will launch a six-month campaign to help certain jobless young people, including new college graduates, find work or improve their prospects in an overcrowded job market.

The campaign, which will start sometime next month and run through the end of the year, is part of the country’s efforts to bring down a soaring youth unemployment rate, which hit a new record high in May, as well as ease some of the pressure on a job market that needs to absorb a record 11.58 million new graduates this summer.