Beijing's Dongcheng District is showing the way by recruiting service providers for public welfare services.

According to the 21st Century Business Herald, China will formally initiate a survey on unemployment rate during the 12th Five-year Plan Period and make it a major item for control of the national economy.

Chongqing plans to offer training to college graduates who have not been employed since their graduation.

According to the Beijing Times, Haidian District in Beijing has offered CNY13.1 million as employment and social insurance subsidies to eight Chinese companies that have been hit by the global financial crisis.

Huang Wen, a partner of Ernst & Young, one of the world's Big Four accountancy firms, has told the Chinese media that the company will encourage about 200 of its employees in China to quit their jobs. However Huang has denied that this is a job-cutting exercise.

The All China Federation of Trade Unions is carrying out a program across the country to promote employment in the household service sector.

China's State Council has held a meeting to arrange measures to further strengthen the nation's employment situation.