Chinanews client, Beijing, August 11 (Reporter Li Jinlei) When unusual things happen, you should pay attention to the unusual signals behind them.
These days, Ning Jizhe, Deputy Director of the National Development and Reform Commission, Liu Kun, Minister of Finance, Zhang Jinan, Minister of Human Resources and Social Security, Zhong Shan, Minister of Commerce, and Yi Gang, Governor of the People’s Bank of China, have appeared on the newscast one after another. A series of heavy voices revealed the future policy direction and events. Close the jobs and wallets of many people.
Stabilize employment: promote the employment of key groups
Employment is the biggest livelihood of the people. Only when the job is stable can increase income and promote consumption. Therefore, the state puts employment at the top of the "six stability" and "six guarantees". However, due to the impact of the epidemic, this year's employment has had a sluggish start, but it has gradually stabilized.
Zhang Jinan released a set of figures: The number of newly-increased urban employment has risen from 390,000 in February to one million in the recent month; the overall unemployment rate in the survey is about 6%, and it has fallen monthly since the second quarter; the number of recruitment needs in May A year-on-year increase of 2%, achieving the first time since February to turn from negative to positive, and continued its upward trend in June.
However, Zhang Jinan reminded that under the influence of the epidemic this year, the market demand for college graduates has declined, recruitment has been delayed, job hunting has been restricted, and youth unemployment has risen. With the concentration of college graduates entering the market in July and August, the employment of key groups will face new pressure.
How to ensure the employment of key groups?
Zhang Jinan said that in the second half of the year, registered unemployed persons will be provided with basic public employment services free of charge, and policies such as rent reductions and exemptions, tax incentives, and entrepreneurial guarantee loans will be actively implemented to help them find employment and entrepreneurship through multiple channels. For college graduates, we will continue to encourage the expansion of enterprises to absorb the scale, expand the scale of grassroots employment, expand the scale of enrollment, and expand the scale of training and internships. For migrant workers, employment services, vocational training and rights protection will be strengthened, and employment will be promoted and local employment will be promoted. In particular, it is necessary to do a good job in establishing and registering employment for poor laborers.
Yi Gang pointed out that the monetary policy in the second half of the year should be more flexible, moderate, and precise, and the policies that have been introduced to stabilize enterprises and ensure employment are effectively implemented.
Data map: The scale of vehicles participating in the Changchun Auto Show in 2020 has reached a new high. Photo by Zhang Yao
Promote consumption: relaxation of new energy vehicle purchase restrictions
Expanding domestic demand and promoting consumption are essential for stabilizing economic growth.
On July 30, the Politburo meeting called for "firmly grasping the strategic basis of expanding domestic demand", continue to expand domestic demand, overcome the impact of the epidemic, expand final consumption, and create conditions for household consumption upgrades.
Regarding how to expand consumption, Ning Jizhe pointed out that to expand domestic demand, it is necessary to better play the fundamental role of consumption in economic growth. In the second half of the year, China will accelerate the promotion of high-quality development of new types of consumption such as smart retail and online education, promote the transformation and upgrading of consumption of automobiles and home appliances, encourage cities with purchase restrictions to appropriately increase vehicle purchase limits, relax restrictions on the purchase of new energy vehicles, and give appropriate measures to the purchase of new energy vehicles. subsidy.
Ning Jizhe said that the development of county-level consumption clusters is the focus of this expansion of domestic demand, and it is also a place with great potential for consumption development. For example, the reconstruction of pedestrian streets in county towns should be supported by loans, and some corporate bonds can also be issued to support this transformation, making China's consumption not only in large cities, but also in medium-sized cities and county towns.
"Work hard to promote consumption." Zhong Shan said that to improve urban consumption, it is necessary to promote the transformation and upgrading of pedestrian streets and develop chain (convenience) stores. It is also necessary to expand rural consumption, promote e-commerce to enter rural areas, and promote industrial products to the countryside and agricultural products to cities.
Xu Hongcai, deputy director of the Economic Policy Research Institute of the Chinese Policy Research Institute, told a reporter from Chinanews.com that it is necessary to create a market environment conducive to promoting consumption, promote fair competition, combat counterfeiting, and improve product quality, so that consumers can eat and use. Rest assured, vigorously cultivate emerging consumption represented by online consumption, so that consumers "can consume, dare to consume, and willing to consume."
Data map: Visitors watch 5G indoor routers at close range. Photo by China News Agency reporter Jiang Qiming
Stabilize investment: promote the construction of "two new and one heavy"
To expand domestic demand, we must actively expand effective investment.
Ning Jizhe pointed out that in terms of investment, we will focus on promoting the "two new and one heavy" construction of major projects such as new infrastructure, new urbanization, transportation and water conservancy, and increase efforts to make up for shortcomings in public health, emergency material reserves, and transportation energy. Urban renewal, speed up the transformation of old communities in cities and towns.
Private investment accounts for nearly 60% of the investment of the whole society and is an important force in stabilizing investment. Ning Jizhe said that in the second half of the year, China will further improve the private investment environment, increase policy support, and support private capital to participate in the construction of short-term areas such as response to the epidemic, public health, warehousing and logistics, and emergency reserves. At the same time, it will guide banks Introduce credit products adapted to the characteristics of private enterprises, and increase the scale and proportion of credit loans and medium and long-term loans.
Yi Gang clarified that the comprehensive use of a variety of monetary policy tools to guide the growth of broad money supply and the scale of social financing is significantly higher than last year, and at the same time pay attention to grasping the rhythm, optimizing the structure, and promoting inclusive small and micro enterprise loans and mid- to long-term manufacturing Reasonable loan growth.
Liu Kun pointed out that in order to cope with the impact of the epidemic, fiscal policy has been "additive", issuing 1 trillion yuan of special national debts to fight the epidemic, focusing on supporting local infrastructure construction and epidemic prevention and control.
The picture shows people watching the launch of the Long March 5 Yaosi rocket from the beach. Photo by Luo Yunfei
Stable expectations: China's economy is expected to achieve positive growth throughout the year
In the first half of the year, China's economy achieved a deep V rebound. In the second quarter, the economy grew by 3.2%, which was significantly better than expected, and achieved the first recovery in the world. Looking forward to the whole year, what is the trend of China's macro economy?
Ning Jizhe pointed out that the trend of China's economic recovery is foundational, conditional, and sustainable. The fundamentals of China's economic stability and long-term improvement remain unchanged, and it is emerging.
From the perspective of production, the added value of industries above designated size has been increasing for three consecutive months since April; the service industry production index has achieved positive growth for two consecutive months. From the demand side, fixed asset investment achieved positive growth in the second quarter, and the decline in total retail sales of consumer goods has narrowed for four consecutive months. The gradual recovery of the supply and demand cycle can be said to improve the sustainability of economic recovery.
Yi Gang said that on the one hand, various industries have recovered quickly; on the other hand, demand has gradually recovered, investment has picked up significantly, consumption has continued to recover, and exports have clearly improved. While the economy is recovering, price levels have also remained stable.
"In general, the characteristics of China's economic potential and resilience have not changed. In the second half of the year, my country's economic growth will continue to recover, and it is expected to achieve positive growth throughout the year." Yi Gang judged. (Finish)