Chinese Premier Li Qiang has urged efforts to nurture new growth drivers and gather new momentum in the human resources services sector for the building of a modern socialist country in all respects.

Li, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks in a recent instruction on developing the human resources services sector.

Li said human resources services play a crucial role in improving market-based employment and promoting the building of a modern industrial system.

He said it is important to be guided by the employment-first strategy, strengthen top-level design, and ramp up policy support to create new growth drivers in the human resources services sector.

Efforts should be made to form a regulated and unified human resources market with orderly competition, so as to energize the market further and bolster the efficient use of human resources, the premier said.