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Companies encouraged to reward ability, diligence and high outputChinese State-owned enterprises should play a leading role in improving the treatment of skilled workers, especially highly skilled talent, a senior official said on Monday.On Thursday, the general offices of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and State Council jointly released a guideline calling for more incentives for skilled workers by raising their political status, incomes and social benefits.China has a working population of 776 million, of which only 165 million are skilled, and a mere 47 million are "highly skilled", according to Tang Tao, deputy minister of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security."That is a truly serious imbalance between demand and supply in the labor market," he said on Monday.The ministry attributed the shortage in the talent supply mainly to low income, unsatisfactory welfare benefits and poor social status associated with skilled positions."The State-owned..