沙特阿拉伯在零售业创造100万个新的就业岗位

Saudi Arabia to create 1 million new jobs in retail
In line with the Kingdom's Vision 2030, the Saudi retail sector has taken concrete steps to generate 1 million new jobs by 2020 and provide the youth with more opportunities to work in commercial shops, vegetable markets, telecommunication shops, and several other fields.
Saudi Arabia's retail sector enjoys more than SR 370 billion in investments annually and retailers will play a central role in the implementation of Vision 2030 as also realising the goal of limiting the unemployment rates in the desert country, Fahad bin Saiban Al-Sulami, Member of the Board of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry told website arabnews .
The retail sector, said Al-Sulami, will help bring unemployment down from 11.6 percent to 7 percent, as stipulated in the vision, while the labour market will see more female participation and an over 10 percent growth.
The Ministry of Labor and Social Development's upcoming 5-year plan will see more than 1.3 million Saudi nationals enter the labour market as a result of the plan to nationalize the retail, telecommunication, taxi, travel and tourism, real estate, gold and jewellery, and vegetable market sectors, he said.
Al-Sulami also stressed the need to face the major challenges facing the retail sector, such as 'cover up' practices, the high cost of available commercial spaces, labour shortages, limited investment in training national cadres, as well as inadequate infrastructure to serve the sector.
"Many SMEs turn to expatriate labour because they are seemingly more affordable, a situation that has increased the percentage of expatriates in the sector to more than two-thirds and created significant economic pressure," he said. (SH)
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沙特阿拉伯在零售业创造100万个新的就业岗位
为了实现2030的王国愿景，沙特阿拉伯计划至2020年创造100万个新的就业岗位，为年轻人提供更多的工作机会，其中包括商店、蔬菜市场、电信门店和其他行业。
沙特阿拉伯吉达商会董事会成员Fahad bin Saiban Al-Sulami告知媒体，沙特阿拉伯零售行业每年投资超过3700亿沙亚币，为了实现2030年的愿景，零售商在这一方面发挥着核心作用，作为沙漠中的神奇国度，他们也意识到必须控制失业率。
Al-Sulami说，零售业有助于将其失业率从11.6%降至7%。作为愿景规划的一部分，劳动力市场将会看到更多的女性参与，增长率超过10%。
他说，劳动部和社会发展局将出台即将到来的五年计划，届时将有130万沙特公民进入劳动力市场，行业包括零售、电信、出租车、旅行和旅游、房地产、黄金、珠宝、和蔬菜市场。
Al-Sulami还强调目前零售业面临诸多主要挑战，比如实战经验、可用商业空间的高成本、劳动力短缺、有限的投资以及基础设施服务缺乏。
他说，许多中小企业转向雇佣外籍劳工，因为它们看起来更便宜，这种情况下该行业增加了更多的外籍人士，比例高达三分之二，使其经济压力更大。