Hot Comments 丨 Stimulate the vitality of market entities and stabilize the overall situation of employment
According to statistics from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, in the first quarter of this year, 2.85 million new jobs were created in my country's cities and towns, completing nearly 26% of the annual target of more than 11 million people, achieving a stable start.
Employment is related to people's income. People's income increases, demand increases, and consumption upgrades drive economic growth and economic development. Employment has always been at the top of the "six stability" and "six guarantees". Employment is the biggest livelihood of the people, and stable employment means stable growth.
The key to stabilizing employment is to protect market players. Small, medium and micro enterprises contribute about 80% of urban labor employment. It can be said that small, medium and micro enterprises play a "ballast stone" role in stabilizing the basic domestic employment market.
However, a large number of small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households have relatively weak anti-risk capabilities and are more vulnerable to external shocks.
Since late March, due to the spread of the epidemic in many places in the country and the escalation of international geopolitical conflicts, the difficulties and challenges faced by market entities in my country have increased. The supply chain and logistics chain of the industrial chain are not smooth, the pressure on production costs is increasing, the terminal sales are slowing down, the inventory squeeze and the cash flow are tight.
How to effectively bail out market entities?
How to stimulate the vitality of market players?
Stable employment situation?
Although my country's employment pressure is increasing, it still has many favorable conditions:
150 million market players.
In recent years, my country's market has been active, and the scale of market players has expanded rapidly. As of 2021, there will be more than 150 million market players in my country, and the majority of small, medium and micro enterprises have created a solid foundation for providing jobs. At the same time, the steady development of 150 million market players is also a domestic cycle. and source of economic vitality.
Measures to stabilize employment will be strengthened and more effective.
In order to cope with the increasing employment pressure since March, the country has expanded its support for stabilizing jobs in terms of staged social insurance and electricity consumption. Among them, the proportion of unemployment insurance for small and medium-sized micro-enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households will be raised to a maximum of 90%; stay in 2022 The amount of tax credits and refunds will be greatly increased from 132.2 billion yuan in 2021 to 1.5 trillion yuan; guide financial institutions to further rationally make profits for the real economy, increase support for small and micro enterprises and key emerging areas of manufacturing; strengthen college graduates, migrant workers and groups in difficulty Employment assistance for key groups, support for college graduates to start their own businesses, implement policies related to mass entrepreneurship and innovation, and expand effective investment to drive employment, etc.
The national epidemic situation shows a fluctuating downward trend, and the resumption of work and production is accelerated.
On the one hand, since late April, the sporadic epidemic situation in my country has shown a fluctuating downward trend. The country is also increasing investment in case screening, optimizing prevention and control measures, and the public actively responds and cooperates; Businesses resumed, and economic activity returned to normal at a faster pace.
The more urgent work at present is to ensure smooth flow. It requires a game of epidemic prevention and coordination in epidemic prevention. Under the premise of accurate and effective epidemic prevention, speed up the dredging of the freight logistics system, break through the blockage of the industrial chain and supply chain, accelerate the resumption of work and production, and minimize the impact of the epidemic. Loss.
Strengthen the coordination and cooperation of policies of fiscal and taxation, finance, industry and other departments, and implement a series of previously issued relief policies to help enterprises to help enterprises tide over difficulties, reduce the burden on enterprises, stabilize the confidence of enterprises in development, stimulate the vitality of market players, and ensure market players, stable employment.
Continue to strengthen entrepreneurship and employment skills training, strengthen the construction of job market information platforms, and promote better matching of supply and demand in the job market.
On the whole, my country has a large team of market players and an active economic performance; at the same time, in the face of short-term difficulties and challenges, the national and local levels actively responded to the difficulties, and promptly introduced a series of targeted rescue and assistance policies and measures for enterprises. Have the foundation, ability and conditions to complete the annual employment target.
(Text丨Zhou Maohua, Macro Researcher of the Financial Market Department of China Everbright Bank)