BEIJING — The Ministry of Education on Feb 28 launched a 24-hour online campus recruitment service to help graduates find jobs amid the COVID-19 epidemic.

The free service is available on the ministry's campus recruitment portal and five leading job-hunting websites in China, which had all put in place special pages for the project, deputy minister Weng Tiehui told a press conference.

The five selected commercial websites were also required to strictly verify the job information published.

Since the outbreak of the epidemic, the ministry had organized 12 online job fairs with the help of authorities in different industries, with another 18 such events on the way, said Weng.