Chinese Premier urges efforts to boost jobs

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Premier Wen Jiabao on Tuesday called for more efforts to expand employment, urging authorities at all levels to prioritize job creation.

premier 总理

call for more efforts to 加大力度......

expand employment 扩大就业

at all levels 各级

prioritize v. 重点发展，优先考虑

Wen made the remarks at a national conference held in the Great Hall of the People to honor collectives and individuals that have made great contributions in boosting the country's employment.

make remarks at a conference 发表讲话

collective 团体

Saying that expanding employment is the top priority in ensuring and improving people's livelihoods, Wen said Communist Party of China (CPC) committees and governments at all levels should acknowledge the paramount importance of the issue.

be the top priority in ... ......是当务之急

people’s livelihoods 生计

paramount 首要的

Wen said the employment situation has essentially been stable, citing 98 million jobs created in urban areas from 2003 to 2011.

employment situation 就业形势

cite 以......为例

However, the premier said the nation will face a more complex and difficult employment situation in the period ahead, which will require the government to make more efforts to boost employment.

boost employment 刺激就业

Wen called for local authorities to implement more proactive employment policies and give more priority to job creation when making national economic development programs and adjusting

industrial structuring and layout.

local authorities 当局，当地政府

proactive 有前瞻性的，先行一步的

give priority to 优先考虑，给......优先权

adjust industrial structuring and layout 调整工业结构和布局

Local authorities should also seek opportunities to boost jobs during the transformation of the country's economic growth mode and promote industrialization, urbanization and agricultural modernization, Wen said.

seek opportunities to 寻求机会......

Local authorities should make efforts to create more jobs for college graduates, migrant workers, women, minorities and disabled people, Wen said.

college graduates 大学毕业生

minority 少数民族

Local authorities should implement support policies to reduce burdens for medium- and small-sized enterprises (SMEs), which are a major force in expanding employment, Wen said.

implement policies to 实行政策

reduce burdens 减轻负担

medium and small-sized enterprises (SMEs) 中小企业

a major force 中坚力量

SMEs provide over 80 percent of the nation's jobs.

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