Non-state owned enterprises have become the main force in employment and re-employment.
Currently, there are over 80 million people working in individually-owned businesses and private enterprises, accounting for one third of the total employees in urban areas.
In particular, over the recent years, non-state owned enterprises have been creating over six million jobs annually or about 80 percent of the total new jobs in urban areas in the same period, according to the Ministry of Labor and Social Security.
The ministry, along with All China Federation of Trade Unions and All-China Association of Industry and Commerce, will launch a recruitment campaign for non-state owned enterprises from June 6 to 12 in 100 large and medium-sized cities across the country.
By People’s Daily Online
China announced Monday it would no longer impose export tariffs on 81 categories of textile products as of June 1, 2005.
BEIJING, May 30 (Xinhuanet by Gu Qianjiang and Chen Gang)
A previous decision to quintuple the export tariffs on 74 textile categories, on which export tariffs were imposed from Jan.1 this year, was revoked, according to sources from the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council, China’s cabinet.
The export tariff on flax yarn will also be abolished, the Commission said.
“If some countries have imposed restrictive measures upon China’s textile goods, then China needs to revoke export tariffs on these goods, because the country cannot make its textile export shoulder double pressures,” said Chinese Minister of Commerce here Monday afternoon at a press conference held by the State Council Information Office. (more…)
The Chinese Ministry of Commerce released the first 10 technical guidelines for exports this morning in Beijing. Each guideline offers information on the technical regulations, standards, and evaluation process in the destination market, as well as comparison with the Chinese system. It also provides solutions and suggestions proposed by experts.
The guidelines deal with products ranging from honey, eel, leather and fur products, textiles and down-padded anorak, to aluminum section, air-conditioner, electric tools, computers and accessories, packaging for exports to EU.
By the end of 2006, 100 guidelines will be available free.
The Ministry of Commerce has been working on the guidelines since 2003 with 14 ministries, 40 industrial associations, 6 imports and exports chambers, 50 research institutes and 10 local government departments.
By People’s Daily Online
China has revised downwards the growth rate of its economy in the first quarter to 9.4 percent from 9.5 percent, or 3.1319 trillion yuan (378 billion US dollars), the National Bureau of Statistics said Wednesday.
According to the bureau’s preliminary assessment, released last Friday, China’s GDP (gross domestic product) grew by 9.5 percent to 3.1355 trillion yuan in the first quarter, and the growth rate was 0.3 percent lower than a year earlier.
The bureau deals with GDP growth in three steps — preliminary assessment, preliminary verification and final verification, a practice which began in 2003.
According to the result of preliminary verification, the industrial value added for the first quarter this year was revised down by 4.8 billion yuan, with the growth rate dipping by 0.4 percentage points, while the quarterly value added for transport, storage and post and communications sectors was increased by 1.2 billion yuan, or 0.6 percentage points in growth rate.
Because of this, the growth rate of the secondary industry dropped by 0.2 percentage points in the first quarter, and that of the tertiary industry increased by 0.1 percentage points.
- Xinhua
