Beijing to offer more jobs for May quake survivors

Special Report:Reconstruction After Earthquake

BEIJING, Feb. 10 (Chinese media) -- Beijing will arrange no

less than 1,000 May quake survivors of Shifang city, Sichuan Province, to work

in the national capital this year, according to the municipal bureau of labor

and social security.

The city will also encourage local employment

agencies to collect information on jobs that are suitable for laborers from

quake-hit areas and publish advertisements via media to collect more job

information, bureau official Ren Jianxin said on Monday.

Last June, the central government decided that 19

provinces and municipalities provide one-to-one assistance for rebuilding to

quake-hit counties and cities in Sichuan and neighboring Gansu and Shaanxi

provinces in three years. Beijing and Shifang make a pair in the assistance

program. Beijing signed an agreement with Sichuan on employment assistance last

year.

Beijing would hold three job fairs in Sichuan in

February, May or June, September or October respectively, inviting capital-based

enterprises and businesses to recruit employees.

The city will also take measures to ensure that wages

of people from quake-hit areas be paid timely and their interests and rights are

guaranteed, the official said.

Last year, Beijing provided 16,798 jobs to Sichuan

citizens.