Front page article of Learning Times: Why should we elevate stable employment to a strategic level and consider demand | employment | strategy comprehensively

Employment is the most basic livelihood, affecting the lives of thousands of households. It is the largest livelihood project, popular support project, and foundation project, and an important guarantee for social stability. On July 24th, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee held a meeting to analyze and study the current economic situation and deploy economic work for the second half of the year, emphasizing the need to increase efforts to ensure people's livelihoods and comprehensively consider stabilizing employment to a strategic level. This fully reflects the high attention that the Party Central Committee attaches to the issue of employment. We must recognize the importance of stabilizing employment from a strategic perspective and effectively grasp this top priority of people's livelihood.

Making every effort to stabilize and expand employment is a concrete manifestation of our Party's adherence to the people-centered development concept. Employment is the basic way for workers to meet the needs of a better life. Placing stable employment work in a more prominent position is necessary to enable workers to jointly build and share the fruits of reform and development. Meanwhile, stabilizing employment, as a key support for maintaining economic operation within a reasonable range, is of utmost importance in economic work. Creating more employment opportunities, expanding employment capacity, improving employment quality, and optimizing employment structure have become key tasks for China's economic and social development.

Employment is the foundation of people's livelihood, which is related to the beautiful life of thousands of households and the development of the careers of billions of people. It restricts people's consumption potential and the demand for macroeconomic growth in the country.Chinese path to modernization is a modernization with a huge population, common prosperity for all people, coordinated material and spiritual civilization, harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and peaceful development. It should be based on stable and quality employment. In the process of solidly promoting high-quality development, we will always face the dual challenges of adjusting the economic structure and employment structure. We must vigorously promote the formation of a virtuous cycle of economic growth, employment improvement, and income increase, and effectively prevent the risk of large-scale unemployment.

The current domestic demand is insufficient, some enterprises are facing operational difficulties, there are many risks and hidden dangers in key areas, and the external environment is complex and severe. China's economic operation is facing new difficulties and challenges. Due to the impact of the epidemic, countries around the world have generally entered a period of digestion of early stimulus and floor support policies. The global demand contraction caused by inflation and interest rate hikes is difficult to avoid in the short term, and the world economy is still operating in a downward cycle. Although China has taken a series of measures to assist enterprises and alleviate difficulties, there are still some business entities that have not been able to survive the cold market environment. Many employment groups have had to enter flexible employment positions, resulting in a squeezing effect that overall reduces the employment quality and income level of the whole society. China's modern industrial system is in a critical period of accelerating growth and overcoming obstacles, full of vitality. However, the maturity of technology, products, and services is still lacking, and the scale of output value, employment capacity, and income proportion still need to be developed. With the transition of the epidemic, economic recovery, and continued efforts to stabilize employment policies, the overall employment situation has rebounded. However, key groups, especially young people such as college graduates, face significant employment pressure. Their professional supply capacity does not match the employment demand of the relatively slow developing modern industrial system, resulting in structural employment difficulties and a shortage of some talents, increasing the pressure on the overall employment situation.

Economic recovery is a process of wave like development and tortuous progress, and the employment situation will also fluctuate accordingly. The overall pressure and structural problems of employment in China still exist, with difficulties for young people in finding jobs and recruitment in some industries coexisting. Stable employment requires continuous efforts, especially in strategic planning of policy measures that promote economic transformation and stable employment. Based on the trend of technological development and national strategic needs, we will strengthen the forward-looking, strategic, and systematic layout of basic research, continuously strengthen the team of leading scientific and technological talents and first-class innovation teams, in order to cope with fierce international competition and external challenges. Accelerate the adjustment of disciplines and majors in higher education, enhance the alignment between student employment needs and industry requirements, and reduce the employment pressure caused by the mismatch between supply and demand. Accelerate the implementation of the relevant policies of the Party Central Committee on restructuring and promoting reform, reduce various institutional obstacles, better coordinate the effective improvement of quality and reasonable growth of quantity, expand employment demand, increase employment income, and enhance the driving force of domestic consumption demand. Accelerate the optimization of employment structure and improve the quality of training, promote better integration of effective markets and promising governments. Government employment guidance should focus on solving universal problems and medium - to long-term needs. In terms of policy resources and fund utilization, more rewards and subsidies should be used to fully attract and mobilize the flexibility advantages of society and business entities, and improve the quality and level of public employment services.