An employer, left, communicates with a job seeker at a job fair in Haikou, south China's Hainan province, April 18, 2020. (GUO CHENG / XINHUA)

BEIJING - China's State Council has released a plan to boost employment during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025).

With the major goal of achieving fuller employment and creating better quality jobs, efforts should be made to implement the employment-first policy, improve the policy system, strengthen training services, and take solid steps to promote common prosperity for all, according to the plan.

By 2025, the country's employment situation will be generally stable, the quality of employment would have steadily improved, the structural problems effectively addressed, more jobs created by encouraging business startups, and the ability to cope with risks significantly enhanced, it added.

The plan puts forward key tasks including continuously expanding employment capacity, promoting the development of human resources market system, improving public employment service system, increasing people's income and better protecting their rights and interests.

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