SHANGHAI government has raised subsidies for enterprises to encourage them to hire people who want to work but who have been unable to find a job for at least six months.

Besides the disabled, families where no one is employed, former prisoners and ex-drug abusers, three more categories were added to “people with employment difficulties” recognized by the human resources and social security bureau.

These are for members of families containing several disabled people, women aged over 40 and men over 45, whose land has been requisitioned, and people younger than 35, who have been unemployed for more than a year despite being recommended to employers by public employment service organizations.