For developing countries, the key to decent work is to promote productive employment and to improve the employment environment and working conditions for comparatively disadvantaged workers in labor market, a senior Chinese official said Monday in Geneva.

"It is the common wish of international workers to realize a fair globalization and decent work. This wish is an important precondition of economic development and social progress and thus, should be a fundamental mission and responsibility for governments around the world," said Wang Dongjin, vice-minister of the Chinese Ministry of Labor and Social Security.

"To this end, developing countries have to proceed from their national conditions and formulate tailored social economic policies so as to promote productive employment, eradicate poverty and improve self-developing capabilities in order to fulfill the objective of decent work," he told the 93rd annual conference of the International Labor Organization (ILO) on May 31-June 16.

Developed countries, rather than restricting developing countries based on comparative advantages, should pay more attention to their needs, address their concerns and provide more technical support to promote win-win cooperation and realize sustainable development, according to Wang, who is also the head of the Chinese delegation to the conference.

And the ILO, he added, should place focus on employment promotion as the key to poverty eradication and decent work.

The vice-minister also introduced to the conference participants what the Chinese government has done to confront with the challenges brought by globalization.

"The Chinese government has seized the time and spelled out proactive employment policies. The social security system has been improved; new labor relation adjustment mechanism, centered on labor standards, labor contract, collective consultation and labor dispute settlement, has been established," he said.

"As a developing country, China has realized from our own experiences that to maintain coordinated development between society and the economy, it has to put people first and have comprehensive, harmonious and sustainable development approach," he added.

Source: Xinhua