China will maintain a proactive policy on employment by providing diversified skills training, encouraging entrepreneurship and restructuring inefficient industries, with the aim of boosting the number of new jobs and overall workforce quality.

Unleashing market potential and enhancing policy implementation will be priorities under a new program on employment for the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20) period. The program was approved on Wednesday at a State Council executive meeting presided over by Premier Li Keqiang.

"Employment is vital to people's livelihood and provides core support for developing our economy," Li said. "The importance of employment cannot be overestimated.