China has nearly 70,000 HR service agencies: ministry

NINGBO, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- China currently has 69,900 human resources service agencies and about 1.06 million agency personnel nationwide, according to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security on Thursday.

The figure for the agencies was 2.5 times that in 2012, while the figure for personnel was 3.1 times that for 2012, the ministry said at a high-quality development promotion conference of the human resource service industry held in Ningbo, east China's Zhejiang Province.