The links amounted to a limited opening up of trade, transportation and postal services.
Trade, transportation and utilities added jobs, but several key sectors, including finance and manufacturing, lost jobs.
This includes wholesale and retail trade, transportation and public utilities, education and health care, and especially government.
It has grown steadily and has become the region's business, trade, transportation, education, and health care centre.
The county had added 3,300 new nonfarm jobs between March 2003 and March 2004, with the largest gains in trade, transportation and utilities.
The newspaper has covered trade, transportation and insurance issues since 1827, and in 1848 was one of the six New York City newspapers that founded The Associated Press.
There were job losses in some areas of finance, manufacturing, the information sector and trade, transportation and utilities, among other fields.
Shortly after the election, Mr. Chen proposed to lift the ban on direct trade, transportation and postal service between the two countries.
The state labor department said 5,700 jobs were created last month, more than 90percentt of which were in the private sector, mostly in trade, transportation and utilities.
In the past decade, the number of high-value jobs in goods production and in service categories like trade, transportation, information technology and the professions has shrunk by 12 percent, to 68 million from 77 million.
Three other industry sectors added more jobs than mining over the last year: trade, transportation and utilities increased by 57,900 net jobs; professional and business services by 53,400 net jobs; and leisure and hospitality by 44,900 net jobs.
