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Sichuan faces worsening unemployment pressure

By Fu Jing and Zhao Tingting (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2009-03-06 13:50

Sichuan will witness a grimmer unemployment situation incurred by the global financial crisis and the devastating earthquake last May, Jiang Jufeng, governor of Sichuan and member of the National People's Congress, said Friday on the sidelines of the annual session of the NPC.

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"The earthquake had left about 1 million people jobless and another 3 million migrant workers are returning home because the financial crisis had brought many factories in East China to bankruptcy," Jiang said.

As one of the country's top labor exporters, Sichuan sent 11.88 million migrant workers to other provinces in 2008, and income earned by migrant workers contributes to half of the income of Sichuan's rural population.