China News Service, Guiyang, May 6 (Reporter Zhang Wei) As China's most populous province for poverty alleviation and relocation, 1.88 million people in Guizhou moved out of the "poor den" into new life. Guizhou will do a good job in increasing employment income for the people who are in poverty alleviation and relocation in the three aspects of consolidating the output of labor services, broadening employment channels, and strengthening support for employment income increase policies.
The reporter learned the above news from the Guizhou Provincial Government Office on the 6th. The General Office of the Guizhou Provincial Government has recently issued guidelines on further strengthening the job-increasing income of the relocated people for poverty alleviation and relocation, and put forward 17 measures to promote the job-increasing income of the relocated people.
Guizhou is China's main battlefield for poverty alleviation. At the end of 2014, Guizhou Province had 6.23 million poor people, accounting for 8.9% of China's poor population, ranking first in China. In December 2015, Guizhou took the poverty alleviation and relocation of poverty-stricken areas as a "head-of-the-money" poverty alleviation, and carried out an unprecedented scale of poverty alleviation and relocation work in Guizhou's history for the poor people who lived in a place where "one side can not support one person". Guizhou Province plans to implement 1.88 million people for poverty alleviation and relocation, of which 1.5 million people are in poverty, accounting for 15% of China's relocation plan; 10090 poverty-stricken natural villages are relocated as a whole.
Data Map: Children play table tennis in the resettlement site for poverty alleviation in Sandu Shui Autonomous County, Guizhou Province. Photo by Qu Honglun
Guizhou is a major labor service exporting province in China. During the Spring Festival of 2020, Guizhou Province ’s rural labor force returned to rural areas reached 2.518 million, of which 1.99 million returned from other provinces. According to official data, as of the end of February, all migrant workers in Guizhou Province, including relocating poverty alleviation and relocation, have returned to work. Guizhou has strengthened the organization of labor services, tracked services, and guaranteed rights and interests to consolidate the results of labor services and ensure the basic rights and interests of people who relocate to work.
Guizhou keeps track of the situation of migrant workers moving out on a monthly basis, clearly supports those responsible, and enters employment information into the Guizhou labor training and employment information system in a timely manner; unblocks channels for justice, arbitration, and rights protection, and effectively safeguards the legitimate rights and interests of migrant workers who move out. During special periods such as the New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic, "point-to-point" services can be provided for relocated people to return to work by way of government purchases of services or subsidies for part of the chartered car rental, concentrated labor areas, and corporate organization of special vehicles.
Guizhou has actively expanded employment channels by formulating measures to increase employment income and support employment, and make good use of resources to increase employment to ensure stable employment for more than one person in a family with labor relocation. Guizhou formulated resettlement areas as a unit to help the relocated people to increase their employment income and support plans, so as to implement "one household, one policy, one person, one strategy", and implement employment support measures and responsibilities; make full use of the poverty alleviation cooperation and counterpart support policies in the east and west, focusing on the introduction of Labor-intensive and flexible working enterprises suitable for the characteristics of relocated people, taking employment capacity as an important factor for the development of supporting industries; combining the characteristics of relocated people, build a batch of poverty alleviation workshops, poverty alleviation bases, small and micro enterprises in or around the resettlement area Promote nearby employment, actively support the established poverty alleviation workshops and bases, and link the effectiveness of poverty alleviation workshops and bases with policy support, and establish a positive incentive mechanism.
Data Map: Parents and children are playing in the resettlement resettlement site in Sandu Shui Autonomous County, Guizhou Province. Photo by Qu Honglun
In terms of employment income support, Guizhou has been strengthened in seven areas, including migrant workers and nearby employment support policies, training support policies, and incentives for market operators, so as to promote stable employment and income growth for relocated people.
Guizhou encourages qualified places to adopt various methods to reward labor export agencies that have made a significant contribution to labor export, and give relocated people a one-time job search entrepreneurship subsidy, employment poverty alleviation assistance subsidy, and skills training subsidy. For market operators, Guizhou will also give Incentives and preferential policies include one-time employment subsidies, social insurance subsidies, and fund awards.
Guizhou also encourages various financial institutions to innovate financial products according to their own positioning and business scope, provide convenient financial services, support the follow-up industrial development of the relocation and resettlement areas, and relocate the people ’s production and life; Financial institutions will increase their credit investment in the follow-up industries in the resettlement area; give preferential policies for the absorption of relocated people's enterprises or market entities, as well as the relocation people's personal entrepreneurship financing. (Finish)