"Four years ago, my mother went to work in Guangdong from her hometown. Today, I am also here." Wei Shuangyan, a post-00s generation from Liucheng County, Liuzhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, took the special train back to work for the first time and embarked on a journey to start work in the New Year.

On January 30, the D3755 "Stabilizing Employment and Promoting Development-Free Special Train for Guangxi Migrant Workers Returning to Guangdong" carried 544 Guangxi migrant workers and arrived at Guangzhou South Railway Station.

Wei Shuangyan, who was dressed in a pure white down jacket, was particularly conspicuous in the crowd.

She told the reporter that this year is her first year of formal work, and she will work as a teacher in Panyu District, Guangzhou City.

"My mother came to Guangdong to work for me to study in university, and I also want to realize my dream here." In her opinion, not only the income is higher here, but there is also a lot of room for growth.

  "The head of the manufacturing industry" releases a strong signal of high-quality development

  On the first day of construction in the new year, Guangdong Province held a high-quality development conference, and "manufacturing industry" became a hot topic of discussion.

The development of manufacturing industry is the top priority of Guangdong in 2023.

This year, Guangdong will arrange 1,530 provincial key projects, with a total investment of about 8.4 trillion yuan, and an annual planned investment of 1 trillion yuan, with 205 projects exceeding 10 billion yuan alone.

At present, the total output value of Guangdong's manufacturing industry is expected to exceed the 16 trillion yuan mark, with more than 700,000 manufacturing enterprise legal persons, a large number of high-quality enterprises, and 8 trillion yuan strategic industrial clusters.

  "It is not advisable to lie down, it is impossible to lie down and win, and it is time to struggle." At the meeting, Huang Kunming, secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, said that in today's Guangdong, the growth of quantity has reached a plateau, and the breakthrough of quality is still in the brewing period.

As long as new breakthroughs are made in quality improvement, we can usher in a quantitative blowout and start a new round of development and catch-up.

The huge economic volume means that more efforts must be made to overcome the inertia of growth.

In the struggle between crisis and opportunity, stability and advancement, offense and defense, the "danger" of Guangdong's economy stems from the lack of high-quality development, and the "opportunity" can only be firmly grasped by high-quality development.

Implementing new development concepts and promoting high-quality development is the fundamental way out for Guangdong.

  This is the largest meeting held in Guangdong Province in recent years.

There were 1,000 guests at the main venue, more than half of which were from enterprises; through video conferencing, the content of the conference ran through cities and counties in Guangdong in real time.

The Guangdong Provincial High-quality Development Conference will discuss in-depth discussions on themes such as "key projects and major platforms", "manufacturing industry", "high-quality development projects in hundreds of counties, thousands of towns and villages", and "five external linkages" to seek common development ideas and measures.

At this conference, enough time was left for the "heads" of various industries to speak freely, and some entrepreneurs pointed out the shortcomings in development.

  The manufacturing industry is the "ballast stone" of China's economic development and the "backbone" of the high-quality economic development of Guangdong Province.

Tu Gaokun, secretary of the party group and director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, said, "Guangdong is a major manufacturing province, and promoting the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry is of great significance to shaping and enhancing Guangdong's strategic advantages in the new development pattern." Guangdong strives to In 2023, the province's industrial investment growth will reach more than 10%, and the role of industrial investment in the amplification, superposition and multiplication of industrial economic development will be brought into play.

  At present, the added value of Guangdong's manufacturing industry accounts for about 1/8 of the country's total, contributes more than 40% to economic growth on average annually, and absorbs more than 30% of the employed population... In the past year, Guangdong has effectively responded to the impact of unexpected factors and handed over The economic output is 12.9 trillion yuan, ranking first in the country for 34 consecutive years, which is inseparable from the "manufacturing industry".

  "Reverse recruitment" is busy returning to work

  After the Spring Festival, Guangdong ushered in the peak of migrant workers returning to work. "Stable employment" and "guaranteed employment" reflect the determination of high-quality development in various parts of Guangdong.

"After the province's high-quality development conference is held, a large number of new major projects and major projects will start construction one after another, and the number of workers will be greatly increased in the near future." Xia Yibing, director of the Guangdong Provincial Employment Service Administration, revealed that Guangdong has crossed provinces before the festival. "Reverse recruitment", organizing enterprises from various cities to organize groups to recruit and book employees on-site in labor cooperation provinces.

"As early as the fifth day of the first lunar month, we organized the country's first return-to-work special train from Guilin to Shenzhen." The employment of labor in Guangdong, a major labor export province, is stable, which effectively guarantees the employment needs of enterprises in Guangdong.

  Up to now, more than 100 migrant worker trains from Sichuan, Chongqing, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi and other places have arrived in Guangdong one after another.

It is estimated that by February 5 (the fifteenth day of the first lunar month), more than 80 special trains returning to work will arrive in Guangdong.

These special trains will ensure the smooth return of more than 100,000 migrant workers from other provinces to Guangdong.

According to the monitoring and analysis of the Department of Human Resources and Social Security of Guangdong Province, more than 17 million migrant workers from other provinces returned to their hometowns before the festival, and the proportion of returning to work exceeded 50%. more than 90 percent.

  "I have been working in Dongguan for almost 16 years. I hope that this year's income can increase a bit so that we can better train our two children to study and be admitted to a good university in the future." Tao Caixian from Sandu Town, Liujiang District, Liuzhou City, Guangxi, in Dongguan Working in a rural electronics factory in Huangjiang Town.

She said, "At present, I am still an ordinary employee, and I hope to become a foreman this year." Her husband also works in a nearby factory, and is mainly responsible for production work such as steel welding. He can earn seven to eight thousand yuan a month and can take better care of the family. human life.

  Wei Chunfa, who lives in Tun Village, Sandu Town, Liujiang District, Liuzhou City, has been working in Guangdong for 9 years. Five years ago, he built a three-story building in his hometown and bought a car for his children to go to work.

He hopes to continue to earn more money in the New Year and renovate the kitchen at home.

Wei Wenkun, who lives in Shiligong, Sandu Town, Liujiang District, Liuzhou City, is currently working as a foreman in an enterprise in Huadu, Guangzhou.

"Working in Guangdong for 15 years has brought a lot of changes to my family, and the days are getting better every day. The new house has two floors repaired, and I also bought a car. This year's biggest wish is to improve my skills and get promoted from the foreman position. Earn money to raise 3 children to study."

  On January 31, 600 migrant workers from Guizhou took the D2811 train from Bijie, Guizhou to Guangzhou.

Most of them are returned employees who have been employed in Guangdong before the festival, and there are also a small number of new migrant workers in Guangdong.

When getting off the bus, many people happily said in Cantonese: "It's back to work!" The fellow villagers took their hometown "New Year's taste" with big bags and small bags, and rushed to jobs full of hope.

  Li Chenghong from Bijie, Guizhou, works on a construction site in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province.

In recent years, after the Spring Festival, Li Chenghong took a special train to return to work in Guangdong, which is about 1,100 kilometers away from his hometown.

He said that it used to be a long journey back to work, and it was not easy to buy a ticket, but now it is guaranteed and free to return to his hometown, and he feels very "warm".

"Earning more money is my biggest wish. Recently, the construction schedule is relatively tight, so I want to resume work as soon as possible."

  During the Spring Festival travel season, the Human Resources and Social Security Department of Guangdong Province plans to directly organize 14 return-to-work trains, 380 special cars, and 3 chartered flights after the festival. "Point-to-point" organizes 25,000 workers from other provinces to return to work in Guangdong. So far, more than 1,800 people have been helped by special trains Famous migrant workers entered Guangdong to return to work in a timely manner. The demonstration has driven localities and enterprises to increase their efforts to connect organizations, help migrant workers return to work quickly and find employment quickly, ensure the employment needs of enterprises after the festival, and create "a hometown is a hometown" in the whole society In the good atmosphere of developing to Guangdong".

  Real money guarantee workers

  On the first day of work after the Spring Festival, the Galanz Group beat drums, danced with dragons and lions, and front-line employees "received a red envelope" for starting work.

Mao Aiping, who is in charge of the winding work in the production department, said that before the festival, the company helped them arrange the return ticket and pick-up station from their hometown in Huaihua, Hunan after the festival, so the Spring Festival was "very calm".

  Before the festival, Galanz fully launched the 2023 Spring Festival recruitment work, from Guangdong to Guangxi, Guizhou and other places to connect with other provinces, and launched dozens of technical positions for the society, recruiting more than 5,000 skilled workers in the first batch.

During the Spring Festival, they continued to recruit in the "cloud", and planned the development path of "general workers-key positions-industrial technicians-engineers" for the first-line technicians who entered the job through the strategy of "skilling all employees".

  "The Human Resources and Social Security Department has introduced preferential policies and provided financial subsidies to help enterprises stabilize employees and expand recruitment. The production line can be produced at full capacity as soon as it starts." Liang Zhaoxian, chairman and president of Galanz Group, introduced that Galanz has changed from the traditional "order-taking- The model of R&D-production-delivery is transformed into an industrial Internet ecology integrating supply, production, sales and users, realizing the closed-loop data of the entire system of the industrial chain and supply chain.

  In Dalang Town, Dongguan City, many enterprises are already busy.

In the production workshop of Dongguan Houwei Packaging Technology Co., Ltd., employees are basically in place.

Zhou Jiantao, director of the company's president's office, said that with the support of the government and the efforts of the company, most of the employees who went home for the New Year have returned to work, and the resumption rate has reached about 90%.

Xiang Minjun, director of the TCL Air Conditioner Manufacturing Center in Nantou Town, Zhongshan City, said that on the fourth day of the first lunar month, he received employees who came back to work from Wuzhou, Guangxi.

Seeing the return-to-work vehicles drive into the factory one after another, he felt much more at ease.

  There are 23 million migrant workers in other provinces in Guangdong, accounting for about 1/3 of the country's total.

According to the monitoring of the Human Resources and Social Security Department, about 75% of migrant workers from other provinces returned to their hometowns before the Spring Festival.

Xie Zhongbao, deputy director of the Human Resources and Social Security Department of Guangdong Province, said that at present, Guangdong's overall return to work and employment situation presents "two stability": the return of employees is smooth and orderly; the employment of enterprises is steadily increasing.

Up to now, the return rate of employees has reached more than half, basically returning to the level of the same period in the normal years before the epidemic.

At present, enterprises across the province have started work one after another, and the demand for labor has picked up rapidly.

  It is reported that the gap between the supply and demand of Guangdong's human resources market is about 500,000 people, and the job-seeking ratio exceeds 1.9. Since 2022, the Human Resources and Social Security Department of Guangdong Province has provided more than 83 billion yuan in real money to help companies bail out in response to the severe challenges of the epidemic. Policies, sending funds, and sending services guide companies to keep their employees in Guangdong, in the enterprise, and in their posts.

  For this return to work, the Human Resources and Social Security Department of Guangdong Province, in conjunction with Guangxi and Guizhou Human Resources and Social Security Departments, Guangzhou Railway Group and other relevant departments, closely coordinated and planned in advance to formulate a plan for migrant workers to return to work in Guangdong in a safe and orderly manner.

From the establishment of the list of returning to work in Guangdong, the screening of the travel list, the opening of special trains for returning to work, and the connection and delivery to the destination, etc., the whole chain of migrant workers returning to work in Guangdong from before the trip, on the way to work, and helping them return to work as soon as possible post.

Next, Guangdong will continue to maintain docking and cooperation with Yunnan, Sichuan and other major labor exporting provinces, and continue to deepen the cooperation mechanism with Guangxi, Guizhou, east and west; maintain the continuity of employment support policies, and continue to include the poverty-stricken population in cooperative provinces and regions in Guangdong into the full coverage of the policy , Fully guarantee job supply and stable employment.

  (China Youth Daily China Youth Daily China Youth Daily reporter Lin Jie)