How did the 6.98 million new jobs come true
Our reporter Ao Rong
In the first half of this year, 6.98 million new jobs were created in urban areas, completing 60% of the annual target; the nationwide surveyed unemployment rate in urban areas gradually dropped from 5.5% in February to 5% in June, and the unemployment level gradually returned to the level before the epidemic. ; In the second quarter, the market demand ratio of public employment service agencies in 100 cities was 1.58, and the labor market demand increased.
Experts believe that my country’s employment report in the first half of the year was hard-won, but we still need to clearly see the difficulties and challenges. This year’s employment pressure remains high. The overall stability of the employment situation is due to the strong support of economic recovery. Continued efforts in the employment priority policy.
Stabilize the basic employment market
"In the first half of this year, the number of new jobs in urban areas increased by 1.34 million over the same period last year, and the number of new jobs increased significantly. Data comparison is the main basis for continuous improvement in employment." said Mo Rong, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Labor and Social Security Sciences.
The unemployment rate in the national urban survey has the same performance.
According to the data, the urban surveyed unemployment rate in March was 5.3%, and in June it fell to 5%, both of which were lower than the control target of around 5.5%, which was 0.7 percentage points lower than in June last year and also lower than the 5.1% in June 2019. .
Mo Rong believes that “the surveyed unemployment rate in cities and towns has been slightly better than in normal years, reflecting the effectiveness of employment work, and the employment situation has been steadily strengthened.” At the end of the second quarter, the nationwide registered unemployment rate in cities and towns was 3.86%, a decrease of 0.08 percentage points from the end of the first quarter. , Also proved this.
From statistical data to different employment groups, it also shows that employment is basically stable.
At present, the employment situation of 9.09 million college graduates remains generally stable, and the scale of rural labor migrants continues to increase. The total number of poverty-stricken laborers is 30.63 million, which has completed 101.5% of the annual target task.
The basis for the continuous improvement in employment is the steady improvement of the macro economy.
The results of my country's overall planning of epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development have continued to show, and the economy has continued to recover steadily, with stability and improvement, which has strongly promoted the recovery of employment.
"The macro economy performed well in the first half of the year, which strongly supported the fundamentals of employment growth." said Zhao Zhong, deputy dean of the School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China.
In addition, the achievement of the employment transcript in the first half of the year is also inseparable from the overall force of the macro policy.
Mo Rong said that with the joint efforts of a proactive fiscal policy, a prudent monetary policy and an employment priority policy, my country has achieved remarkable results in stabilizing employment and protecting people's livelihood.
In particular, this year’s series of measures for stabilizing and increasing employment by securing market players have stabilized expectations, stabilized the market, and stabilized employment.
Open the door and let it go
"A private enterprise can drive more than 10 workers to work, and one individual industrial and commercial household can drive three to five people to work. Judging from the situation in the first half of this year, the growth rate of market entities is relatively fast, providing workers with more More jobs." Li Changan, a professor at the National Institute of Opening-up of the University of International Business and Economics, said that from the central to the local governments, governments at all levels have frequently launched practical recruitment to broaden market-oriented employment channels, which has promoted entrepreneurship to drive employment and achieved good results.
Self-employed entrepreneurs, self-employed individuals and small and micro enterprises can enjoy the support of a combination of policies such as loans, subsidies, taxes, and venues.
Among them, support for entrepreneurial secured loans and discounted interest policies (increased personal loan quota to 200,000 yuan, small and micro enterprises to 3 million yuan), and one-time entrepreneurial subsidies, tax incentives and other policy support for qualified ones; in the government A certain percentage of venues will be arranged in the entrepreneurial carrier of investment and development, which will be provided to key groups free of charge.
The threshold has dropped, many occupations have undergone many changes, and job seekers have more choices.
Since the beginning of this year, 18 new professional information including drinkers, food safety managers, and carbon emission managers have been released.
Individual industrial and commercial households who sell agricultural and sideline products, daily necessities or engage in convenient labor activities in designated places and time are exempted from applying for business licenses.
There are more services, and a series of employment service activities such as joint recruitment in large and medium-sized cities, "Spring Breeze Action", and "Ten Thousand Days Online Recruitment Action" provide tens of millions of jobs.
Since May, the "Hundred-Day Ten Million Online Recruitment Campaign" has been launched throughout the country, and a large number of job information for different employment groups have been released every week. 360 job seekers can find their own corresponding job information.
"The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and other departments have introduced special assistance measures based on various key employment groups, which have achieved good results." Zhao Zhong said, "For example, college graduates are high-quality talents cultivated by the state, but they are in the labor market. China’s experience is still relatively small. If more help is provided from outside the society, they can better adapt to the needs of the workplace."
Long-term high-quality employment
Currently, there is a structural contradiction between job demand and labor supply in the job market. What measures have been introduced in the first half of this year to improve this situation?
There are many difficulties in employment this year. Among the nearly 15 million newly-growing labors who need to work in cities and towns, there are 9.09 million college graduates. How to guide young people into ideal positions?
"College graduates are the focus of employment, and they represent the employment status of young people." Mo Rong believes that "a large number of jobs in our country are still in the front line of the manufacturing industry. In terms of flexible employment, clear measures were put forward in the formulation of laws and policies in the first half of the year, which also brought benefits to the promotion of employment of graduates."
Since the second quarter, the recruitment rate of skilled workers has remained at around 2, especially the urgent need for highly skilled talents in enterprises.
In the first year of the "14th Five-Year Plan", in order to train more ordinary workers into skilled talents and cultivate more skilled talents into highly skilled talents, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security launched the “Skills China Action” and formulated the “Add 40 million skilled talents”. The overall goal of "persons and above" starts from the training, use, evaluation, and motivation of skilled personnel work to comprehensively improve the level of skilled human capital in my country.
"Skilled workers are an indispensable strategic resource for my country's high-quality development. Today, this view has been recognized by more and more people." Cui Qiuli, a vocational training expert of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and former party secretary of Shandong Labor Technician College, said: "Among them, skills Incentive action focuses on improving the social status and economic benefits of skilled talents, breaking the'ceiling' of growth and progress, creating a good atmosphere of'advocating the strength of one skill, not only relying on academic qualifications', so that the vast number of skilled talents can see the rush to become talents with skills."
The vocational skill improvement action has become one of the highlights of stabilizing employment and protecting people's livelihood this year.
The scope of subsidies for special account funds is extended to graduates of high vocational colleges (including technical colleges). The new enterprise apprenticeship system "apprenticeship" also has training subsidies. Vocational training vouchers can allow workers to enjoy careers without advance payment. Training Services.
Since the beginning of this year, high-quality employment has continuously improved the "gold content" of skills. The salary levels of new occupations such as artificial intelligence engineers, drone pilots, and IoT installation and debuggers have made more people eager to have a skill.
Our reporter Ao Rong