Grasping Stable Employment from a Strategic Perspective | Employment | Strategy
Employment is the foundation of people's livelihood. The recent meeting of the Central Political Bureau emphasized the need to increase efforts to ensure people's livelihoods, elevate stable employment to a strategic level, comprehensively consider the bottom line of grassroots "three guarantees", and expand the middle-income group. This requires further strengthening employment orientation in economic development, improving employment promotion mechanisms, and creating an "employment friendly" economic development environment.
In the second quarter, the average national urban survey unemployment rate was 5.2%, a decrease of 0.3 percentage points from the first quarter. The employment data not only reflects the positive recovery of the national economy, but also indicates that the willingness of workers to find jobs is increasing, which lays the foundation and adds confidence for sustained efforts to stabilize employment in the second half of the year.
However, it should be noted that the task of stabilizing employment is still arduous and arduous. From the current situation, the problem of "difficulty in finding jobs" for young people and "difficulty in recruiting workers" in some industries are intertwined and coexist. The employment priority policy still needs to be further implemented and refined; In the long run, China needs to adapt to the new normal of population development, adapt to the new changes in people's employment needs, and correctly grasp the significant relationships between the quantity and quality, total quantity and structure, supply and demand, flow and distribution of employment. This requires a close combination of stabilizing employment goals with expanding domestic demand, unleashing market potential, and further promoting social security system reform, creating more employment opportunities, and improving the income and rights protection level of workers.
To prioritize employment to a strategic level, we should focus on both ends of the labor market, promote supply-demand matching, and continuously enhance the driving force of employment in the process of building a modern industrial system. On the one hand, efforts should be made to enhance the profitability of the manufacturing industry, stabilize and expand the capacity of manufacturing positions. On the other hand, expanding employment in the service industry. The majority of residents, especially middle-income groups, have a significant gap in their needs for education, elderly care, medical care, and other aspects of people's livelihood. Accelerating the high-quality and diversified upgrading of the life service industry, supporting the innovative development of productive service industry and service outsourcing, will attract more people to invest in the service industry.
In the field of employment, two key actions are being intensified. One is the employment service campaign launched for this year's unemployed graduates and registered unemployed youth, helping them achieve employment or participate in employment preparation activities by the end of the year. The second is a long-term and sustained action to prevent poverty and employment. Based on the needs of migrant workers, especially those who have lifted themselves out of poverty, we will equip them with four wheels: returning to their hometowns for entrepreneurship, labor service brands, vocational skills, and labor cooperation to increase their income from work. Employment is the basic way for the people to achieve their own development through hard work and prosperity. Only by timely helping groups facing employment difficulties, filling the weak links in stable employment work, and enabling workers to enhance their ability to become rich through obtaining employment opportunities, can they ensure a peaceful and happy life and move towards a better life.
At present, various measures of the employment priority policy are being accelerated in implementation. In the second half of the year, we will increase support for industries and enterprises with strong employment capabilities, relax market access, and stimulate social entrepreneurship and innovation vitality. The incentive policies and security measures to promote flexible employment will be further improved. With the further stabilization and improvement of the economy, the ability to support employment continues to strengthen. Adhering to market orientation and government promotion, and balancing demand guidance and supply optimization, the employment situation is expected to continue to remain stable.
