China News Service, Yinchuan, December 23 (Reporter Li Peishan) Nursery teacher in her 20s, confinement sister in her 30s... In recent years, with the opening of home economics majors in many colleges and universities around the As he is younger, his academic level is getting higher and higher.

"Hope to find a'diploma' housekeeper has become one of the choices that many people talk about." On December 23, Liu Haiyan, president of the Ningxia Women's Housekeeping Service Association, told a reporter from Chinanews.com that customers are now choosing housekeeping. When working as a practitioner, the “diploma” that is concerned not only has a professional skills training certificate, but also hopes that the domestic workers are highly educated intellectuals.

  Liu Haiyan has been engaged in housekeeping services for many years and she has witnessed the development and changes of the housekeeping industry.

“In the past, most domestic workers were mainly under-employed workers and migrant workers. They could start work as long as they registered with a labor service company. Nowadays, there are very few domestic technicians who work without training.” She said, the old concept. The home economics industry in China is "serving people", and doing housekeeping is "inferior to others". Nowadays, baby nurses, confinements, cleaning, regular cleaning, hospital accompany...the housekeeping service items continue to be refined, and the people's concepts are also changing. With social development gradually changing.

  Consistent with Liu Haiyan’s ideas, Ma Xuezhi, Minister of the Development Department of the Ningxia Women’s Federation, said that the domestic industry is a sunrise industry, and the key to developing the domestic industry is to change the concept of employment and abandon the old traditions of the past.

"The housekeeping service industry looks simple, but it is not easy to do it well. It requires a lot of professional skills and talents."

  In fact, at the same time that the housekeeping industry has become a new sunrise industry, the shortage of professionals in the housekeeping market, including managers of housekeeping agencies and front-line service personnel, is very obvious.

Over the years, the official attention to the housekeeping industry has continued to increase.

  In June 2019, the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Promoting the Quality and Capacity Expansion of the Domestic Service Industry". The opinions put forward ten key tasks, including comprehensive support measures to improve the quality of domestic workers, and support for colleges and universities to establish a number of domestic service related Professional etc.

In April of this year, Ningxia stated that it would set up housekeeping service-related majors in at least one undergraduate college and no less than one vocational college at the prefecture level, and expand the scale of enrollment, so as to promote the quality and expansion of the housekeeping service industry through the integration of industry and education.

On December 13, the first adult college in the country to offer an undergraduate degree in home economics, the Shanghai Open University, also launched its first enrollment.

  Taking Ningxia as an example, the Ningxia Women’s Federation organizes several training courses on housekeeping services every year.

Affected by the epidemic at the beginning of the year, in March this year, the Ningxia Women’s Federation and the Ningxia Women’s Family Service Association launched "Online Learning Skills"-Ningxia Women’s Online Class, covering skills training content such as maternal and child care and home cleaning. Related teaching videos are available online extensive attention.

In May of this year, Ningxia organized and carried out a total of 1,200 "order-type" vocational skills training in various places, so that the new housekeeping staff had the skills and the on-the-job housekeeping staff's "returning" skills were improved.

  Ma Xuezhi told reporters that today's housekeeping practitioners not only hold national certificates, but their income has also risen. The average monthly income of the gold-medal confinement sister in Yinchuan has exceeded 12,000 yuan.

  It is understood that the Ningxia Women’s Federation plans to build a home economic training base for women in Ningxia based on the Ningxia Women and Children Activity Center.

After the base is completed, it will carry out "training + practical operation + service" skills training for women engaged in housekeeping services, leading the female housekeeping service industry to build a brand and promote development, so that the Chaoyang industry will be full of vitality.

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