Beijing will arrange no less than 1,000 May quake survivors of Shifang City, Sichuan Province, to work in the national capital this year, according to the municipal bureau of labor and social security.

The city will also encourage local employment agencies to collect information on jobs that are suitable for laborers from quake-hit areas and publish advertisements via media to collect more job information, bureau official Ren Jianxin said on Monday.

Last June, the central government decided that 19 provinces and municipalities provide one-to-one assistance for rebuilding to quake-hit counties and cities in Sichuan and neighboring Gansu and Shaanxi provinces in three years. Beijing and Shifang make a pair in the assistance program. Beijing signed an agreement with Sichuan on employment assistance last year.

Beijing would hold three job fairs in Sichuan in February, May or June, September or October respectively, inviting capital-based enterprises and businesses to recruit employees.

The city will also take measures to ensure that wages of people from quake-hit areas be paid timely and their interests and rights are guaranteed, the official said.

Last year, Beijing provided 16,798 jobs to Sichuan citizens.

(Xinhua News Agency February 11, 2009)