Ministry helps promote youth employment

The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security recently launched a six-month campaign to promote employment for fresh college graduates and registered jobless youths.

During the economic downturn, the youth — normally those aged from 16 to 24 — are bearing increasing pressure to land jobs, especially college graduates, whose population hit a new high of 11.58 million this year.

Their surveyed unemployment rate has been rising in the past few months and reached 20.8 percent in May, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. The NBS said that six million young people remain jobless.