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  Promoting employment a strategic task: Vice premier   (Xinhua)  Updated: 2005-09-14 20:51  Chinese Vice Premier Huang Ju 
said here Wednesday that promoting employment is a necessary for China to 
sustain its economic and social development. 
 In a meeting with Zdenek Skromach, Czech Deputy Prime Minister and Minister 
of Labour and Social Affairs, and his party, Huang said solving the employment 
problem is an important and arduous task for China, which is heavily populated. 
 He said the Chinese government attaches great importance to the employment 
issue and has adopted a series of policies to provide more jobs. 
 China will create more job opportunities through reform and development to 
enable people to live and work in peace and contentment, Huang said. 
 Reports showed that by June this year, China's registered unemployment rate 
in cities and towns was 4.2 percent with 8.32 million people out of work. 
 Skromach was invited by China's Ministry of Labor and Social 
Security.  
  
  
 
 
  
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