Allocated over two years, the 100 billion Yuan (USD 15.3 billion) fund will cover training and job seeking, said Feng Fei, vice minister of industry and information technology.
The processes of dealing with poor-performing "zombie companies," and undertaking mergers and acquisitions mean that job losses will be inevitable. Thus, re-employing workers will be a major task, Feng said.
He said cutting overcapacity was listed as one of the five major tasks in supply-side structural reform along with destocking, deleveraging, reducing costs and shoring up weak growth areas.
From 2011 to 2015, 91 million tonnes of outdated capacity in the iron industry and 94.8 million tonnes in the steel industry were eliminated.
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