China News Service, Beijing, July 2nd Recently, the "Employment Status and Promotion Forum for Migrant Workers under the Epidemic" sponsored by the Institute of Sociology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences was held online. Experts said that it is necessary to understand and study the changes in the motivation of migrant workers to support their families and set up their homes, and to promote the settlement of migrant workers' short-term labor, so as to help them truly achieve urban integration.

Data Map: A staff member is preparing a special vehicle for migrant workers to return to work. Photo by Tan Kaixing

　　The online forum held on June 30 was hosted by the Institute of Sociology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and invited relevant government departments, experts and scholars, industry and migrant workers representatives to discuss together. The forum combines the latest data from the survey and long-term observations on the employment problems of migrant workers, and proposes strategies for promoting the employment of migrant workers, which provides a reference for employment security and industrial recovery after the epidemic.

　　At the seminar, Wang Chunguang, deputy director of the Institute of Sociology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that the employment of migrant workers is one of the employment issues urgently to be resolved in the current epidemic situation. He analyzed that at present, migrant workers still face structural employment problems when entering cities, especially after the epidemic, migrant workers face great challenges when they go out to work.

　　Liu Jinwei, Director of the Investigation and Evaluation Service Department of the Mobile Population Service Center of the National Health and Health Commission, proposed to strengthen the support of key regions and industries to avoid chain effects; strengthen pre-employment training, accelerate the process of migrant workers' citizenization, and increase the employment of migrant workers Stability.

　　Xi Jun, Executive Dean of the New Citizen Research Institute, under the title of "New Citizens-Business Truth at the Bottom of the Pyramid", analyzed the characteristics of the new citizen class and the industrial logic of the new citizen economy, and introduced how to use job search as an entrance to socialize , Buy a house, buy a car, children’s education, medical services and other commercial means, and truly promote the new citizenization of migrant workers.

　　At the end of 2019, the research group of the Institute of Sociology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences conducted a survey on the living conditions of migrant workers in the Yangtze River Delta and completed the "Survival Survey of New Generation Migrant Workers." At this seminar, the organizer introduced the preliminary results of the survey.

　　Wang Junxiu, director of the Social Psychology Department of the Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, introduced that the epidemic has a great impact on the lives of migrant workers. At the beginning of the epidemic, the willingness of migrant workers to resume work was very strong. Changes in the epidemic have complicated the market supply and demand relationship of labor. After the normalization of the epidemic, the situation of unstable employment of young migrant workers was temporarily eased.

　　He analyzed that the increased autonomy of employment and the lack of job stability constituted the reaction force of migrant workers. For the future, this is actually not conducive to the citizenization of migrant workers.

　　He said that for the migrant workers group, from stable employment to job security, it is the primary problem to solve the short-term employment of migrant workers and truly achieve urban integration.

　　Chu Rongwei, a professor at Fudan University, said that it is necessary to truly return to migrant workers themselves, and to analyze in depth the passiveness and initiative of migrant workers' integration into cities, as well as career planning, job selection, unemployment and reemployment.

　　"For migrant workers or migrants, in addition to supporting their families, an important factor that allows them to work better and invest in the future is to settle down." Chu Rongwei said, to understand and study migrant workers to support and settle down The motives of the government have changed to formulate public policies. In addition, public policies have to influence corporate policies and form effective policy coordination.

　　He believes that migrant workers are sometimes forced to change jobs, and sometimes they are also active strategic choices. It is necessary to build the psychological capital and human capital of individual migrant workers, so that they can maintain their expectations and desires for the future, and finally realize their well-being. (Finish)