spring breeze recruitment 2024 offered more than 43 million jobs

context: The 2024 spring breeze action, which aims to provide employment services to migrant workers in cities, has come to a successful conclusion. The campaign has held 64,000 recruitment events and posted more than 43 million jobs.

During this year’s MoHRSS (Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security) employment campaign, the number of recruitment activities and job postings increased by ten percent compared to last year. Additionally, it introduces 

  • supportive policies to 
    • stabilise employment, retain workers and speed up rework 
  • employment subsidies
    • over C¥6.6 bn
    • help over 60,000 key enterprises meet their labour needs of more than 400,000 people

The manufacturing industry was still a major employer, accounting for 35 percent of the PRC's recruitment demand. Other areas of increasing employment demands include 

  • technical positions 
  • professional talents in artificial intelligence and big data 

The recruitment demand of small and micro enterprises has increased significantly, especially in service industries such as

  • healthcare 
  • retail
  • accommodation and catering
  • cultural tourism
  • transportation

According to the MoHRSS Employment Promotion Department, these characteristics and changes reflect 

  • the consolidation and strengthening of the PRC's current economic recovery
  • opportunities and trends for 
    • traditional industries’ transformation 
    • developing new productive forces