China’s rubber-stamp parliament has approved government plans to build an “employment-friendly growth model”, language that underlines the ruling Communist Party’s growing concern over unemployment in the world’s second-largest economy.
In near-unanimous votes on Thursday, delegates to the National People’s Congress also backed a new national five-year plan that envisages Chinese dominance in technologies ranging from artificial intelligence to robots — sectors that are expected to eliminate many jobs.
But during the NPC’s eight-day session, delegates were keen to discuss plans to improve the country’s increasingly challenging labour market signalled by the new language included in the government’s annual “work report”.
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