Worried about a wave of layoffs that might hit following the Lunar New Year in late January, the government upped the ante on a raft of budgetary items ahead of the holidays, casting its net far and wide in an effort to see after the needs of the employed, the unemployed, the middle aged and elderly, and college students. These measures are expected to create some 330,000 new jobs.
惟恐漫長年假後出現裁員潮，農曆春節收假前夕，政府更大幅加碼各種預算和方案，包括在職、失業、中高齡及大專生，分別進行「撒網式」的因應措施，預計將創造 34 萬個工作機會。