The "Peace and Unity–2024" joint military exercise between China and Tanzania entered the phase of live-fire drill at sea off the east coast of Tanzania on Thursday. The participating vessels departed from the Port of Dar es Salaam and conducted various exercises, including main gun shooting and seizure operations. During the drill, 16 Tanzanian officers and soldiers were invited aboard China's amphibious dock landing ship Wuzhishan to observe the exercises.
"We expect more cooperation between our two countries. This exercise is still going on. We still have more days and we expect more and more effective exercises. And it will be teaching our officers and soldiers to have a better understanding of what is supposed to be done in the navy," said Makhala, a colonel of the Tanzanian navy.
The joint exercise is carrying out under the theme of joint counter-terrorism military operations. In the following days, a range of subjects at sea such as visit board search and seizure (VBSS), anti-terrorism and anti-piracy, and joint maritime patrols will be carried out successively.
"Our two sides cooperated very tacitly in main gun shooting and other subjects, and achieved the expected objectives of the exercise. Through several exercises, our mutual trust and friendship have been enhanced, while also confirming our practical ability to jointly address maritime security threats," said Fei Zhang, a soldier on the Wuzhishan landing ship.
The exercise, which started on Tuesday, will conclude drills at sea on August 5, and the drills on land on August 11.
Joint China-Tanzania military exercise enters phase of live-fire drill at sea
China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security has launched a special action plan to boost the employment of college graduates across the country, said an official with the ministry at a press conference in Beijing on Tuesday.
Zhang Wenmiao, director of the Human Resource Mobility Management Department under the ministry, said the project has mobilized 251,000 employers to provide about 4.77 million job positions across the country. Over 6,138 human resource service agencies participated in it, attracting 2.86 million job seekers, including college graduates. Among them, 585,000 reached preliminary employment agreements.
"The employment service campaign focuses primarily on the 2025 cohort of college graduates, as well as those from previous years who remain unemployed after graduation, and participants in grassroots programs such as the 'Three Supports and One Assistance' plan (a program that sends college graduates to rural areas to support education, agriculture, healthcare and poverty alleviation). We have mobilized a range of human resource service agencies, national human resource service industry parks, and talent markets to widely offer market-oriented job positions. We have also innovated recruitment methods by organizing a series of activities, including online and offline job fairs, live-streaming recruitment events, and bringing human resource services directly to college campuses," the official said.
The ministry also introduced new policies to support employment and entrepreneurship for young people. These measures include expanding public sector job opportunities, encouraging private sector recruitment, and encouraging graduates to seek employment in grassroots communities and small- and medium-sized enterprises.
In total, the ministry offered job-seeking subsidies to over 2 million disadvantaged college graduates, particularly those from low-income urban families, rural poor families, and families with disabled members.
China launches new campaign to boost employment among college graduates