Chinanews.com, March 2nd. The State Council Information Office held a series of themed press conferences on March 2nd on the theme of "Commitment to Authoritative Departments".

Wang Xiaoping, Minister of Human Resources and Social Security, introduced at the meeting that in 2022, my country's employment situation will be generally stable, with 12.06 million new urban jobs across the country, employment of key groups will be basically stable, and 32.78 million migrant workers will be lifted out of poverty, which is higher than the previous year. Year.

  "With regard to the employment situation this year, as the overall economic operation improves, the employment situation will continue to pick up and remain generally stable." Wang Xiaoping said that this judgment is also based on the following important factors.

The Party Central Committee attaches great importance to employment work, and the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made a series of important arrangements for employment work, providing policy guidance for achieving high-quality and full employment.

my country's economy is resilient, has great potential, and is full of vitality. The fundamentals of long-term growth have not changed, creating good conditions for long-term employment stability.

In addition, innovation and entrepreneurship will also provide strong momentum, and new employment growth points will continue to emerge.

The policy dividends of stabilizing and maintaining employment continued to be released, the policy of reducing burdens, stabilizing employment and expanding employment was adjusted and optimized, and skill training and employment service activities were carried out in an orderly manner, providing strong support for stabilizing and expanding employment.

  "These are our confidence and confidence to do a good job in stabilizing employment." Wang Xiaoping emphasized.

  At the same time, Wang Xiaoping said that the pressure on total employment still exists.

In 2023, the number of college graduates will reach 11.58 million, and the structural contradictions of difficulty in recruiting and employment are still prominent. It is difficult to recruit general workers and there is a shortage of skilled workers.

Ordinary people still face urgent, difficult and anxious problems in job hunting and employment. They hope to have more job opportunities, more reasonable labor remuneration, and more reliable social security. These are the directions we are working hard for.

  According to Wang Xiaoping, judging from the situation in the first two months of this year, the job market is stable and orderly, better than expected.

Compared with previous years, there are three main characteristics:

  One is that workers go out early.

From the first day of the Lunar New Year, migrant workers have been going out one after another, looking forward to returning to work and returning to work as soon as possible.

  Second, enterprises recruit workers early.

Many enterprises start labor negotiations in advance before the festival, and organize directional delivery immediately after the festival, hoping to start work and produce early.

  Third, recruitment activities are hot.

The recruitment sites in various places are crowded and bustling, and the number of job seekers has increased significantly.

As of the end of February, a total of 46,000 various recruitment service activities have been held, and 32 million positions have been released.

This year's employment got off to a good start.

  Wang Xiaoping said that in the next step, we will insist on taking employment stabilization as a major political responsibility, implement various measures to stabilize employment, stabilize inventory, expand quantity, improve quality, and keep the bottom line, and go all out to do a good job in stabilizing employment.

Strengthen assistance to enterprises to bail out, strengthen support for service industries with large employment capacity, small and micro enterprises, and individual industrial and commercial households to stabilize and expand employment, and promote precise implementation of policies and efficient direct access.

Strengthen innovation and entrepreneurship, deeply implement key group entrepreneurship promotion actions, support the construction of the part-time job market, and implement policies to protect the rights and interests of laborers in new forms of employment.

Strengthen precise policy implementation, adhere to the combination of broadening market-oriented channels and stabilizing the scale of public jobs, focus on promoting the employment and entrepreneurship of young people such as college graduates, insist on both going out to work and nearby employment, and focusing on stabilizing the employment scale of rural labor such as those who have been lifted out of poverty; Guarantees are connected, and efforts are made to secure the bottom line of people's livelihood for those in need.

Strengthen quality and efficiency improvement, improve the employment public service system, carry out vocational skills training on a large scale, and strive to promote the matching of supply and demand.

Strengthen comprehensive governance to protect the legitimate rights and interests of workers.

  "In short, we are confident that we will successfully complete the annual employment target and continue to maintain the overall stability of the employment situation," Wang Xiaoping said.

(China New Finance and Economics)