372,000 lose jobs in Sichuan quake

July 2, 2008 at 5:08 pm · Filed under quake, jobs, china

The May 12 earthquake has cost at least 372,000 urban residents in Sichuan their jobs, raising the number of jobless in the province to more than 700,000, a top provincial official said Monday.

The quake has deprived 1.15 million farmers of the means of production too, Vice-Governor Li Chengyun told a press conference.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Monday said Sichuan farmers lost about $6 billion in the quake, which killed millions of farm animals and deprived up to 30 million rural residents of most of their belongings. Read the rest of this entry »

Comments

China struggles to help quake survivors get back to work

June 19, 2008 at 4:01 pm · Filed under quake, chengdu, jobs, china

Kang Hui filled out the registration form for a construction company at a job fair. He felt he would be a good fit, given his skills.

The 40-something Kang was “laid off” after the construction company he formerly worked in suspended operations after the May 12 Sichuan Province earthquake.

“I came to seek a job so as not to be a burden to my family or society,” said Kang. He said he had attended several such fairs organized for quake survivors in Dujiangyan City, a badly-hit part of Sichuan.

Anyone who registered, so long as they were quake survivors, would get a job, said Yan Kaimin, Chengdu Construction Engineering Group’s deputy general manager, at the latest job fair in the city. Read the rest of this entry »

Comments (1)