Gansu rolls out chartered buses to ferry migrant workers directly to new jobs outside province

About 50 migrant workers from Longxi county in Gansu province recently boarded a free bus bound for Nanjing, Jiangsu province, to begin new jobs under a "point-to-point" labor transfer program designed to streamline the return to work after the Spring Festival holiday.

Similar buses organized by the Youzhi Recruitment Human Resources Co have been departing since Feb 22, sending more than 400 migrant workers to jobs outside the province, according to Xue Liaojun, head of the company.

"Before March 8, more than 2,000 workers are expected to head to provinces including Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Sichuan and Shandong for employment," Xue said.