BEIJING, March 26 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government is encouraging vocational school students to take internships in factories so as to ease the shortage of workers in manufacturing.
According to a notice issued by the Ministry of Education, vocational schools are urged to provide more internship opportunities for students in their last year of training.
They are encouraged to organize students to work as interns in factories that fit in their major, especially the students whose skills were in urgent need, the notice said.
The ministry also encouraged education departments in east China, where manufacturing was booming, to work with vocational schools in western regions.
Many factories in the country's more industrialized eastern part currently have difficultly recruiting workers as the demand for labor has increased and many migrant workers prefer to work in factories near their hometowns.
Meanwhile, vocational schools were facing problems helping graduates get jobs.
