China saw rapid development in employment services in recent years. By the end of 2016, it had nearly 27,000 employment service institutions, including more than 5,000 official PES institutions, which provided services for nearly 700 million people last year.
"While China used to receive assistance on employment from other countries, we can now share our own experiences to help developing countries," said Zhang Wenmiao, deputy director general of the Department of Human Resources Market of the MoHRSS.
Zhang said the cooperation is especially important under China's Belt and Road Initiative, which aims to share both achievement and concepts of development, and will be further expanded to other developing countries within the Belt and Road region.
"It is not only assistance, but also acts as part of China's strategy of going out," Zhang said.
Holding a similar opinion, De Meyer said the ongoing forum is not only about summarizing the success stories of the two countries alone, but also expecting further triangular cooperation.
"There are more countries that can benefit from the same approach," De Meyer said.
The PES project, which ran from 2014 until 2016, was undertaken by China, Cambodia and Laos. It was designed to improve employment and reduce poverty in the two less developed ASEAN countries.
"We felt that it was the right combination," said Tim De Meyer, director of the ILO Country Office for China and Mongolia.
De Meyer said China has been going through urbanization and this process, which is closely connected with PES, is what Cambodia and Laos are facing now.
According to the project, staff at PES centers in Cambodia and Laos were able to visit job centers in China, learn how the centers work and receive training there. The centers were also guided to improve services such as job fairs and information networks, better matching job-seekers with employers. (Source: China Daily)
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