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China’s retraining campaign offers scant prospects for the unemployed

Programme was meant to upgrade skills of millions of workers who lost jobs during the pandemic

Li Tianhui had high hopes when she signed up for a free training programme for make-up artist in her neighbourhood, six months after she lost her sales assistant job during the coronavirus outbreak.

“I was having trouble landing a position because of a lack of skills,” said Ms Li, a 33-year-old from Chengdu, a south-western Chinese city. “I thought the course could address the problem.”

But the 10-day programme, funded by the city government, failed to help Ms Li, who struggled to choose the correct eye shadow in a job interview a few days after the training.

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