New routes to employment

Countries on the Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, two initiatives proposed by China to promote regional integration and facilitate trade on the Eurasian continent and in the Pacific and Indian Ocean regions, have been doing more business with China this year.

The contract value of service outsourcing and implementation agreements totaled $10.61 billion (up 22.3 percent) and $8.05 billion (up 31.5 percent), respectively, from January to November.

During that period, 629,000 people joined the service outsourcing sector. Almost 70 percent held tertiary qualifications, demonstrating that better-educated workers are assuming a larger role in China's labor exports.