Xinhua Perspective | Multi regional Policy Enhancement Releases Positive Signals for Stable Employment Innovation | Policy | Xinhua
Recently, many regions have intensively introduced employment promotion policies to enhance the benefits of people's livelihoods. According to Xinhua Vision reporters, from the end of June to present, provinces such as Shaanxi, Jiangsu, and Sichuan have held special employment promotion meetings; More than ten cities including Beijing, Heilongjiang, and Henan have launched a package of policies to optimize, adjust, and stabilize employment.
Various regions are accelerating their efforts and concentrating their efforts to release positive signals of stabilizing employment, especially for young people such as college graduates, providing important support for the continuous improvement of the employment situation in the second half of the year.
Accelerate policy promotion and make every effort to stabilize the employment foundation
On July 3rd, Beijing released 15 measures to stabilize employment, further optimizing and adjusting current policies and expanding employment opportunities by strengthening support for job expansion in key industries and encouraging enterprises to absorb employment.
Since the beginning of this year, with the stabilization and improvement of the economy, the employment situation in China has been continuously improving, maintaining overall stability. However, at the same time, due to the complex and ever-changing external environment, the current pressure on the total employment volume is still significant, and the youth unemployment rate is at a high level.
On July 8, 2023, at the "Good Times Gathering in Fuzhou" night market for college graduates, a young volunteer introduced relevant information to college graduates. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lin Shan
Based on changes in the external environment and the needs of the employment situation, many provinces have recently increased their efforts to stabilize employment policies, making every effort to expand growth, improve quality, and cut corners to promote employment and benefit people's livelihoods at a faster pace.
Heilongjiang has launched 21 policy combinations and implemented a plan to boost employment through major projects; Henan has launched 12 measures to stabilize employment, requiring timely sorting out of local employers with large scale of employment and strong ability to drive employment; Hebei Province has issued 17 policies to stabilize employment, with plans to develop and establish 5500 temporary public welfare positions by 2023; A job search subsidy of 2000 yuan per person will be provided to eligible graduates facing difficulties.
Behind each policy addition, there are piles of financial support.
Wei Qiang, Human Resources Manager of Qingdao Medical Insurance City Co., Ltd., told Shandong Province to increase financial investment and allocate 6.8 billion yuan this year to fully support the stable employment foundation. In addition, Jiangsu Province is expected to increase central and provincial employment subsidy funds by 31% this year. Anhui Provincial Finance recently coordinated and allocated 2.56 billion yuan in stable employment funds, an increase of 310 million yuan year-on-year.
Multi channel efforts to promote employment of college graduates
The employment of college graduates is a current focus of social attention and a top priority for stabilizing employment in various regions. Multiple regions have launched "policy packages" specifically to promote youth employment and provide assistance to unemployed graduates who have left school.
Strong incentives to explore more employment channels——
In terms of providing employment subsidies to employers recruiting graduates, Yunnan Province has expanded the subsidy scope from small and medium-sized enterprises to all operating entities and social organizations, increased the number of beneficiaries by 4.1871 million households, and increased the subsidy standard to 2000 yuan; For small and medium-sized enterprises below the county level that absorb graduates, the subsidy standard will be increased to 5000 yuan per person.
Only one month after the release of the 2023 Employment and Entrepreneurship Policy Service Guidelines for College Graduates, on July 6th, Shaanxi Province once again issued the "Six Measures to Support Employment and Entrepreneurship of College Graduates", which increased subsidies and strengthened support for college graduates' entrepreneurship with real money. At the same time, it expanded the number of policy positions in state-owned enterprises, public institutions, and other institutions to 85500.
Promote matching, accelerate recruitment progress and speed——
Jiangsu Human Resources and Social Security Department deployed to complete the recruitment of 110000 policy posts by the end of August, and cooperated with Internet enterprises to collect at least 10000 high-quality posts with a monthly salary of more than 6000 yuan for graduates every week by the end of September; The next step in Chongqing is to raise 30000 policy positions, with a focus on holding 600 job fairs by the end of September. It is expected to provide more than 300000 market-oriented positions.
At the Shaanxi Provincial State owned Enterprise Special Recruitment Fair for Unemployed College Graduates on July 14th, more than 160 companies offered 3000 positions, attracting many graduates to come early with resumes. "I am more interested in finding a position in a large state-owned enterprise that aligns with my major, so I received a text message and have already submitted some resumes, hoping to gain something," said Xiao Gao, a 2023 undergraduate graduate majoring in Mechanical Engineering at Xi'an University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Wang Xiaolong, Director of the Employment Promotion Department of the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security, introduced, "We have fully launched the service campaign for college graduates who have left school but have not yet found employment. We will provide one-on-one real name assistance, and require state-owned enterprises and institutions to give priority to recruiting disadvantaged graduates for new positions in the second half of the year."
On July 2, 2023, the "Hundred Days and Ten Thousand Enterprises College Graduates Recruitment Series" in Chengdu was launched at Hall 1 of the Chengdu Century City New International Convention and Exhibition Center. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Tang Wenhao
Enhancing skills and enhancing youth employability——
Shaanxi Province will provide no less than 50000 internship positions to young people this year, and require employment skills training for graduating students during their school years, in order to find ways to increase their workplace experience and career choices; Guangdong Province recently released the "Job+Training" apprenticeship plan, coordinating 20 leading enterprises in strategic industries to provide over 100000 apprenticeship positions for fresh graduates and new employees.
South China University, located in Hunan, has increased funding and held 25 employment training and guidance activities in just over two months. It has provided job seeking subsidies of over 200000 yuan to 309 extremely poor graduates, providing comprehensive assistance to graduates in terms of economic support, psychological adjustment, employment guidance, and key recommendations.
After multiple job applications, Xiaoliu, a graduate of the Songlin School of Architecture and Design at South China University, recently secured a job. She told us to create new ideas and improve the effectiveness of promoting employment
In response to the key and difficult issues and weak links in current employment work, many local governments have innovated policy measures and taken proactive measures to continuously improve service levels and promote employment effectiveness.
"This loan has solved the urgent need, and we will recruit around 20 new people next." Xu Xueyong, the general manager of Jiangsu Zhongmeida Refrigeration Technology Co., Ltd., who has just received 4 million yuan of credit support, said that the company added about 10 million yuan of new orders in the first half of this year, and urgently needs to expand production capacity, resulting in a sharp increase in financial pressure. Thanks to the innovative launch of stable and expanded job loans by banks and Jiangsu's human resources and social security departments, the funding difficulties were quickly resolved.
It is understood that the loan product has a maximum limit of 30 million yuan and a maximum term of 10 years, mainly providing financial support for small and micro enterprises and individual businesses with standardized employment and good job stability effects. Since the implementation of the policy, Jiangsu Province has issued approximately 43.5 billion yuan in loans for stabilizing and expanding employment, which has played an important role in encouraging enterprises to operate stably and attract employment.
Longquanyi District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, focuses on the demand for skilled talents in industrial transformation and upgrading, and promotes cooperation between Sichuan Urban Vocational College, Changjiang Vocational College, Lynk&Co, Volvo and other automotive companies to establish 14 "order classes", with rewards of 50000 yuan for both schools and enterprises. The professional setting and course content of the "order class" directly connect with the needs of enterprises, not only solving the talent needs of enterprises, but also stabilizing student employment, allowing them to lock in a targeted employment rate of over 70% as soon as they enter the school.
The human resources and social security departments in multiple regions also empower workers and employers with higher quality employment services through digital technology.
If the human resources and social security departments in Chongqing continue to promote the digital transformation of employment work, they will connect and gather employment related data that was previously scattered in various departments, and use big data analysis to effectively solve problems such as unclear employment base, unclear trends, and inaccurate matching in the past. In the first half of this year, Chongqing's urban areas added 409800 new jobs, a year-on-year increase of 2.3%, achieving 68.3% of the annual target.
