To satisfy its development, Suguo planned to recruit 18,000 employees from both campus and society this year and it will try to improve the industry’s working force through restructuring plans, according the retailer’s headquarters yesterday.

Suguo’s president Ma Jialiang said in an interview that Suguo’s development strategy for the next five years is highly in line with the country’s Twelfth Five-Year Plan, which promoted higher consumer spending, greater domestic demand and the improvement of people’s well-being. In recent years, Suguo did its part and made proper achievement in creating job opportunities, increasing salaries and ensuring food safety. Last year, its sales reached 42 billion yuan and sales in direct-selling stores grew by 20%. It created 12,000 job opportunities and the average salary of its working staff went up by 15%, which reflected the company’s healthy and sound development.