The third Session of the 13th People's Congress of the region opened on Sunday in Yinchuan. [By Dang Shuo/for chinadaily.com.cn]

Ningxia Hui autonomous region plans to achieve a GDP growth of 5.5 percent and a 6 percent growth in per capita disposable income for all residents in 2025, said Zhang Yupu on Sunday while delivering the government work report at the opening ceremony of the third Session of the 13th People's Congress of the region in Yinchuan.

Zhang, chairman of the Ningxia Hui autonomous region government, said that Ningxia will invest 12.5 billion yuan ($1.71 billion) to improve people's life quality in 40 aspects and satisfy needs for public services.

Ningxia aims to address the discrepancies between talent supply and demand by coordinating government-subsidized skill training for over 20,000 individuals, transitioning over 800,000 rural laborers to the non-agricultural sector and urban employment, and generating an additional 80,000 jobs in urban areas.

It plans to establish 25,000 new public welfare positions of various types and guarantee stable employment for at least one individual from each zero-employment family.