Xinhua News Agency, Wuhan, October 5th, Wire Title: China's "new professions" are booming in the post-epidemic era
Xinhua News Agency reporters Yu Pei, Le Wenwan, Tian Zhongquan
During the "Eleventh" Golden Week, 23-year-old Chen Hui was not idle. He took his team to run business all over Hubei-to complete the digital upgrade of small-scale physical stores.
Fruit shops, supermarkets, bakery...Since March, Chen Hui has traveled to physical merchants in Yangxin County, Huangshi City, Hubei, built small programs for more than 300 small shops, upgraded payment systems, and became an excellent small shop plan division.
Faced with the huge challenges brought by the new crown pneumonia epidemic to economic development, China is improving the employment environment with a more active employment policy, and supporting the development of new business formats and models to drive employment expansion.
At the beginning of the epidemic, various physical stores encountered difficulties, and offline transactions shrank sharply.
With the "sinking" of digital technology, more and more small shop owners and small businesses have begun to accelerate their migration to online.
"With our help, a chain hot pot restaurant increased its turnover by 40% on the Dragon Boat Festival." Chen Hui said that his main job is to use Alipay online data traffic to serve offline physical stores and help them distribute coupons. , Take-out and other functions, form the online and offline integration of stores, and expand sales channels.
There is a huge talent gap in this new career that is stepping on the air.
According to data from Alipay, about 80% of small shop planners and digital service providers based on its platform are concentrated in China's second, third, and fourth-tier cities.
As of August, the "Alipay Service Market", which provides digital tools exclusively for merchants on Alipay, has had 10 times more active users than the same period last year.
"There are 40 million physical stores in China, and they will face digital transformation in the future." Chen Hui hopes to find a set of effective methods through his own practice and share it with more people to help the development of physical stores.
Zhang Chenggang, director of the China New Employment Form Research Center, analyzed that new forms of employment characterized by platform organizations have emerged in large numbers and have become an important part of China's new employment.
As the labor market becomes more flexible, more and more workers on the supply side are willing to choose flexible employment.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, in the garage of Yulanyuan Community, Hongshan District, Wuhan City, Chai Hua, a slender figure, wore disposable medical gloves and a mask, and compared more than 10 pages of order forms to separate food and daily necessities.
At dinner time, she went upstairs to go home for dinner, and the neighbourhood went to pick up the goods.
Chai Hua is the group buying "group leader" of her community.
Recalling the complicated affairs and nervous mood during the epidemic, she still remembers fresh.
"As long as I receive the arrival notice, I will immediately put on a gray down jacket for going out, take it off immediately after returning home, and hang it on the balcony. I am scared, but I still want to help you do something."
It was a job spawned by the epidemic, but Chai Hua unexpectedly gained the trust and affirmation from his neighbors.
On the day of Wuhan's "unblocking" on April 8, Chai Hua, who was already familiar with community group buying practices, formally established his own group buying group and became a real “group leader”.
With the good reputation spreading among neighbors and relatives, there are now 315 people in the group buying group of this "group leader".
Every day, she selects high-quality and low-cost products from multiple online shopping platforms to recommend to the members of the group-1.98 yuan and two catties of potatoes, 24 yuan and three catties of catfish, 100 yuan and four catties of prawns... These products are often grabbed. And empty.
Chaihua's revenue comes from the group buying platform share.
Since working for 5 months, she has used this income to buy a lot of preferential products for the family.
"For me, this is not only a job, but also a way of life. Although my income is not high, I am very satisfied with my current life." Chai Hua said.
"Shixianghui" is one of Chai Hua's commonly used group buying platforms.
Before the epidemic, the platform only covered 60 communities in Wuhan. After the epidemic, this data reached 6000 at the peak.
Dai Shanhui, founder and CEO of Shixianghui, said that the emergence of the epidemic has added fire to the development of fresh food e-commerce and community group buying, and further developed and matured the community group buying model.
In an interview with reporters, Meng Qingwei, vice president of the China Talent Research Association, said that the common feature of "new professions" is that the market is spawned. These professions are not formed through school training and social refinement, but based on technological and social changes.
The emergence of "new professions" is often a rigid demand, so it "fires" as soon as it appears.
Another well-known occupation in the fight against the epidemic is the "nucleic acid tester".
As of late May this year, a total of 10.909 million people in Wuhan have completed nucleic acid testing, basically covering all personnel, which is inseparable from the efforts of thousands of inspection technicians.
Shao Lihua after the "90s" is this "one in 10,000".
As the Spring Festival approached, the epidemic raided.
Shao Lihua, a technician from Wuhan Jinyu Medical Laboratory, received a call from the laboratory when he was 10 kilometers away from his hometown in Xinzhou District, Wuhan, asking him to return immediately to prepare for nucleic acid testing.
"I hesitated and hesitated, but if everyone takes a step back, then the fight against the epidemic will be impossible." Shao Lihua said, he immediately turned the front of the car and returned to the laboratory.
In the laboratory, a slogan was posted in a prominent position-"Every specimen is a heart of expectation."
Shao Lihua said that this is a kind of empathy, and every inspector needs to take a responsible attitude towards every specimen.
Today, Shao Lihua has become the director of Wuhan Jinyu Medical Gene Room. The department he is responsible for has quickly supplemented fresh blood after the epidemic and recruited more than 10 inspection technicians.
"Most new recruits are around 20 years old. They are engaged in this job, and they value the sense of accomplishment brought by their career."
Shao Lihua said that with people's in-depth understanding of the epidemic, his "ordinary" job was able to stand "behind the scenes" to "in front of people."
"Thanks to the public for their recognition of this profession, I will always remember to learn professional knowledge and do my best to contribute to people's life, health and safety."
In Meng Qingwei's view, the "new profession" group possesses significant self-discipline, spontaneity and voluntariness.
This group combines their hobbies and career pursuits to set higher-quality and fuller employment goals. They are expected to release greater energy through the market.