Nearly 55,800 jobs were created in Zhanjiang by the end of September, nearly 80 percent of the goal in 18 major projects to improve residents' livelihood set out in the city government's annual work report.

Free technical training was provided to more than 32,000 rural laborers in the city in the first three quarters of the year.

Progress on the 18 projects was reported at a meeting of the standing committee of the city's people's congress last month.