China growth can't fulfil jobs demand: ministryHalf of the 24 million people on China's official unemployment rolls may not find jobs this year even if the country posts eight percent economic growth, the labour ministry said Friday. The estimate given by the ministry does not take into account millions of recent university graduates and migrant workers A migrant worker is someone who regularly works away from home, if they even have a home.[] Although the United Nations' use of this term overlaps with 'foreign worker', the use of the term within the United States is more specific. , meaning the actual number of jobless job·less adj. 1. Having no job. 2. Of or relating to those who have no jobs. n. (used with a pl. verb) Unemployed people considered as a group. Used with the. could be much higher. "Even if economic growth reaches eight percent, it could create a total of only about 12 million new jobs for the full year," Yin Weimin, minister of human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. and social security, said in a statement. "The gap between (job) demand and supply will be further enlarged from 2008," Yin said, without giving a figure for last year. China's economy grew by 6.1 percent in the first quarter, and 7.9 percent in the second, but the government says it needs at least eight percent growth to keep unemployment at bay and thereby prevent social unrest Unrest is a sociological phenomenon, for instance:
The government has pledged to create nine million new jobs this year and keep the urban registered unemployment rate below 4.6 percent. The rate stood at 4.3 percent in the second quarter, unchanged from the first three months of the year and up from 4.2 percent at the end of 2008, government data showed. Earlier this year, a labour ministry official described the jobs situation in China, the world's third largest economy, as "grave", noting that four million migrants and three million graduates were without work. Some critics have argued that Beijing's 585-billion-dollar economic stimulus stimulus /stim·u·lus/ (stim´u-lus) pl. stim´uli [L.] any agent, act, or influence which produces functional or trophic reaction in a receptor or an irritable tissue. , unveiled in November, did not give sufficient support to the labour-intensive sectors and firms that create most jobs. Much of the package instead focused on large infrastructure projects that bring in quick nominal GDP Nominal GDP A gross domestic product (GDP) figure that has not been adjusted for inflation. Notes: It can be misleading when inflation is not accounted for in the GDP figure because the GDP will appear higher than it actually is. growth, they said. 
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