Workforce to keep growing in coming years

The top labor authority said on Friday that China's labor supply will continue to rise, despite the fact that the working-age population is decreasing.

"Although the number of new people of working age is decreasing, China's workforce will keep increasing in the coming decade, especially in the coming years," Yin Chengji, a spokesman for the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, told a news conference.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the country's working-age population stopped rising in 2012 after seeing its first-ever decrease of 3.45 million from 2011.