Releasing Policy Energy to Ensure Stable Employment of Enterprises in Manufacturing Industry | Index | Enterprises
The recently released performance of the Purchasing Managers Index for June showed that the manufacturing industry employee index was 48.2%, a decrease of 0.2 percentage points from the previous month. This data has been declining month on month for four consecutive months; The index of non manufacturing employees was 46.8%, a decrease of 1.6 percentage points from the previous month. This indicates that both manufacturing and non manufacturing enterprises have seen a contraction in their employment prospects, and their ability to absorb employment is still weak and their momentum is insufficient. The task of ensuring stable employment for enterprises remains arduous.
Enterprises are the most important business entities. In terms of quantity and scale, as of the end of 2022, the number of registered enterprises in China reached 52.826 million, becoming the main channel and force for employment. Among them, small and medium-sized enterprises, which account for more than 99% of the total number of enterprises, provide more than 80% of urban employment opportunities. Currently, the stability and development of enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, directly affect the stability of the overall employment situation. Next, relevant policy measures still need to focus on stabilizing employment and supporting the development of enterprises, especially in supporting the development of large and diverse small and medium-sized enterprises and individual businesses.
In order to ensure stable employment for enterprises, the government has taken a series of policy measures to alleviate difficulties and provide assistance. The General Office of the State Council has issued a notice on optimizing, adjusting and stabilizing employment policies and measures to fully promote development and benefit the people, making important arrangements for ensuring stable employment for enterprises. The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, together with relevant departments, has launched a combination of policies such as "reducing, lending, returning, supplementing, and improving", and launched six services including "high-frequency recruitment service activities, actively providing convenient and accessible employment services, and implementing youth special skills training programs" to help college graduates and other young people find employment. The finance and tax departments have implemented a series of tax and fee reduction policies, financial institutions have strengthened their financial support for the real economy, and are focusing on reducing the comprehensive financing costs of enterprises. Next, we need to effectively implement these measures, especially by promoting the construction of the execution responsibility system, strengthening supervision and inspection, to ensure that these hard core measures truly benefit enterprises and help employment.
Firstly, we attach great importance to creating employment growth points in the manufacturing industry. We must adhere to placing the focus of economic development on the real economy, strengthen policy guidance to support advanced manufacturing, guide more resource factors to flow towards advanced manufacturing, and accelerate the transformation from Chinese manufacturing to Chinese creation; At the same time, we must accurately grasp the new trends and characteristics of employment in the manufacturing industry, focus on creating more growth points for employment in the manufacturing industry, promote efficient connection between the manufacturing industry and the talent chain, and better play the important role of the manufacturing industry in stabilizing and expanding employment.
Secondly, focus on solving structural employment contradictions. We should continuously improve the vocational skills training system, comprehensively promote the integrated training model of engineering and learning for skilled talents, widely organize pre job training, on-the-job training, job transfer training, apprenticeship training, and off the job training, promote the formation of a diversified training pattern that combines government subsidy training, enterprise independent training, and market-oriented training, and truly cultivate skilled talents that can meet the employment needs of enterprises.
Once again, we also need to encourage entrepreneurship to drive employment. Entrepreneurship has a multiplier effect on employment. We should further strengthen policy support for innovation and entrepreneurship, improve the fair competition market environment for entrepreneurship, strengthen intellectual property protection for entrepreneurship, increase financial and tax support for entrepreneurship, innovate and enrich new financing models for entrepreneurship, and continuously improve the market adaptability of entrepreneurial enterprises.
