(Foresight of the two sessions) The epidemic situation caused people's livelihood "pain points", "six stability" and "six guarantees"
China News Service, Beijing, May 19 Question: The epidemic caused people's livelihood "pain points", "six stability" and "six guarantees"
Author Wang Qingkai
Since the outbreak of the New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic, China has faced unprecedented challenges. At present, although the epidemic has been contained in China, the effects of the epidemic on the national economy, especially on employment and people's livelihood, have not yet faded.
The two sessions of the National People's Congress will be held soon, and many official think tanks interviewed by reporters from China News Agency believe that doing a good job of "six stability", implementing the tasks of "six guarantees", taking advantage of the bottom line of people's livelihood, and building a safety net for people's livelihood will become important this year. issue.
Drawing: Lei Yuzhu
"Ensuring employment stability should be at the core of the people's livelihood issues at the two sessions this year." Hu Angang, a professor at Tsinghua University and the dean of the National Research Institute, told reporters from China News Service that China has made significant progress in the fight against epidemics, and the country's next focus is to accelerate economic recovery Step, resume work and production as soon as possible, provide stable jobs, and live up to the bottom line of people's livelihood.
The Politburo meeting of the CPC Central Committee held in April 2020 emphasizes the overall promotion of epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development. Under the premise of normalization of epidemic prevention and control, it is necessary to protect residents' employment, basic people's livelihood, market players, food and energy security, and security. The supply chain of the industrial chain is stable and the grassroots operations are maintained.
Drawing: Lei Yuzhu
"Six guarantees" is a new formulation for stabilizing the economic fundamentals in the context of the epidemic since China proposed the "six stability" last year. The recently held executive meeting of the State Council of China clearly pointed out that the "six guarantees" should be taken as the focus of the "six stability" work.
Zhang Yansheng, chief researcher of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, also believes that the upcoming two sessions will add to the implementation and implementation of the "six stability" and "six guarantees" policies.
Why does the government emphasize "six stability" and "six guarantees" so much? The executive meeting of the State Council on May 13 gave a clear answer: the more uncertainty increases, the greater the meaning of "guarantee". The "Six Guarantees" are aimed at highlighting current contradictions and hidden risks, and are positive measures to face and overcome difficult challenges.
In Hu Angang's view, "six stability" and "six guarantees" focused on the most urgent issues that China needs to resolve properly. But the most important thing is to "stabilize employment" and "guarantee resident employment". Based on the basic national conditions of China's labor resources, creating employment for the people is one of the basic national policies. Implementing employment priority is also one of the important development strategies and one of the main goals of economic and social development.
"Employment pressure is relatively high, especially in the next stage." Mao Shengyong, a spokesman for the National Bureau of Statistics of China, admitted at the economic data conference in the first quarter of this year that with the increasing downward pressure on the economy, especially the decrease in corporate orders, the demand has also returned. It is not too strong. In this case, China's employment pressure is still relatively large.
Data Map: On April 14, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, held the 2020 Hangzhou Spring Series Comprehensive On-site Job Fair. China News Service reporter Wang Gangshe
Zhang Yansheng told reporters from China News Service that the new coronary pneumonia epidemic had a severe impact on global economic and social activities, and consumption, investment, and import and export all halted. On the demand side, whether it is domestic or foreign demand, there was a "collapsing impact", which had a serious impact on the service industry such as hotels and tourism, and these fields absorbed a large number of jobs.
In fact, both the "six guarantees" proposed this year and the "six stability" proposed last year put the word "employment" in the first place. Among the "six guarantees", ensuring the employment of residents and ensuring the basic livelihood of the residents are among the top two, highlighting the official attention to the safety of livelihood under the epidemic.
Beijing scholars predict that with full estimates of difficulties, risks and uncertainties, the focus of this year ’s economic and social issues will be on “six stability” and “six guarantees”, and will also pay more attention to employment and livelihood issues than in previous years.
"The two sessions are to lead everyone to look forward." Zhang Yansheng said that solving the employment of migrant workers, college graduates and key groups with difficulties in life is the most important job of stabilizing employment and ensuring employment. (Finish)