SIX government departments jointly released a series of measures to promote employment and startups among young people to mark China’s Youth Day today.

One of the measures is to expand the internship program for unemployed people aged between 16 and 30 to all unemployed younger than 35 and graduating students of local colleges and vocational schools.

Shanghai has been running the program since 2012 to encourage enterprises to provide internships for unemployed young people. In the past two years, the program has helped 16,000 people to find jobs.