China, Thailand hold joint counter-terrorism military drill

The "Strike 2024" joint military drill between China and Thailand commenced on Tuesday in Kunming City of southwest China's Yunnan Province, focusing on joint counter-terrorism operations.

The drill, set in the background of hostage rescuing, covers mixed exercises of demolition, battlefield rescue and more. Military officials from both countries are holding high anticipations toward the drill.

"The China-Thailand 'Strike 2024' joint military drill is highly anticipated. I look forward to exchanging military knowledge and counter-terrorism experience with the Chinese side during this year's training. I wish the joint training a great success and hope that the friendship between the two armies will grow stronger," said Pakkawat, commander of the Thai side.

"The joint drill is mainly comprised of three parts: integrated unit training, counter-terrorism drills, and cultural exchanges. The highlight is the exploration of unmanned and intelligent combat, as well as discussions on manned-unmanned coordinated tactics. We hope to deepen exchanges on training methods and combat strategies of special forces, enhance joint counter-terrorism and emergency response capabilities, and further build the China-Thailand 'Strike' joint training series as a significant platform for military cooperation and exchange between two countries," said Yang Jiansong, member of command team of the Chinese side.

The drill, planned to last for 11 days, is the 7th of the "Strike" joint training series between the Chinese and Thai land forces.

China, Thailand hold joint counter-terrorism military drill

China created a total of 11.98 million new urban jobs in the first 11 months of the year, official data showed on Friday.

Since the beginning of this year, the employment situation has been generally stable among young people, including college graduates, while the scale of rural migrant workers continued to grow, according to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.

This year, the ministry continued to implement policies such as reducing insurance charges of unemployment or work-related injury, which are levied on enterprises, and strengthening support for business entities in areas including the private sector and micro, small and medium enterprises.

A total of 1.32 million internship positions were released this year. In addition, vocational training subsidies were issued to over 12 million people, with migrant workers as the majority, and 150,000 enterprise-based apprentices have benefited from subsidy policies.

Moreover, 679 vocational schools have adopted an integrated work-study model that merges the work process with the learning, and have trained more than 18,000 teachers under the project.

During the January-September period, a total of 80.2 billion yuan (11.2 billion U.S. dollars) was issued in employment subsidies to enterprises nationwide to encourage employment, the data showed on Friday.

China creates 11.98 million new urban jobs in first 11 months