Job vacancies in China grew in the second quarter of the year, although the increase was uneven across sectors and regions, reflecting the nation‘s patchy economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, reports South China Morning Post, citing data from the China Institute for Employment Research (CIER) at Renmin University of China and job search website Zhaopin. The number of jobs available per applicant increased to 2.09 between April and June, up from 1.66 in the first quarter and 1.35 in the same period last year. “The domestic pandemic situation largely stabilised in this quarter. Demand for recruitment has increased significantly,” the report stated.  Compared to the softer job market in the first three months of the year, when some parts of the country were in lockdown after being hit by sporadic Covid-19 outbreaks, the number of vacancies increased 28.25% in quarter two, exceeding the 1.97% rise in the number of jobseekers.