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Abstract: "Implementation of Employment Priority Policy" was included in the "Decision" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, marking the deepening of our party's understanding of the socialist employment laws with Chinese characteristics and the sublimation of the employment concept. In the face of the epidemic situation examination, my country's employment system has fully demonstrated the huge advantages of stabilizing employment, securing employment, and promoting development, and fully demonstrated the superiority of the system of people's livelihood first and employment priority. It is precisely because the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core always adheres to the people-centered development thinking, attaches great importance to employment work, vigorously implements employment priority strategies and employment priority policies, and constantly improves the employment system, so it can overcome any risk challenges and always protect it. Employment is the biggest livelihood.

　　"Employment is the biggest people's livelihood." Since the beginning of this year, under the impact of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, my country's employment pressure has increased significantly. The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has increased its work on “six stability”, ensuring residents’ employment, basic people’s livelihood, market participants, food and energy security, industrial chain supply chain stability, and grassroots operations to ensure stability. The economic fundamentals have been stabilized, the bottom line of the people's livelihood has been embraced, and the system's advantages have been highlighted.

my country's employment work withstood the epidemic test

　　my country is the most populous developing country in the world, and solving the problem of large-scale employment is always a challenging problem. In recent years, adapting to the requirements of high-quality development, China's economic development mode has undergone profound changes, and its industrial structure has undergone profound adjustments. At the same time, due to various factors, China's economic downward pressure has increased. The global economic downturn and the rise of protectionism in some countries have led to a decline in external demand and employment. Work is not only facing total contradictions, but also structural contradictions. It is very difficult to stabilize employment. The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core puts stable employment in a prominent position, insists on creating more jobs and stabilizing existing jobs, and supports the development of a stable economy based on the real economy, developing more jobs in line with the trend of economic transformation and upgrading, Effective measures such as promoting multi-channel employment and entrepreneurship for workers, increasing employment and entrepreneurship services, and basic livelihood guarantees have kept employment basically stable, and the employment situation has been stable and improving in the context of increasing downward pressure on economic growth. In 2019, the growth rate of the world economy fell to the lowest level in the international financial crisis in 10 years, and China not only achieved a medium-to-high economic growth rate of 6.1%, but also added 13.52 million new jobs in cities and towns, which has remained above 13 million for seven consecutive years. The unemployment rate in urban surveys remains at a relatively low level of about 5.0% to 5.3%, and the development achievements are obvious and commendable.

　　Since the beginning of this year, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has insisted on overall planning for epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, and has adopted more precise measures to stabilize and secure employment. First, increase employment priority policies. Under the premise of normalization of epidemic prevention and control, enterprises are encouraged to resume work and production, and 90 policies and measures are introduced in 8 aspects to implement assistance to stabilize enterprises and maximize the stability of enterprise employment. Give priority to investing in industries with strong employment promotion capabilities, optimize the environment for independent entrepreneurship, support multi-channel flexible employment, clean up and remove unreasonable restrictions on employment, and promote measures to promote employment in various places, and make full use of job expansion methods. The second is to do a good job in the employment of key groups. Provide continuous employment services and broaden the employment channels of college graduates; strengthen the job scheduling guarantee for key enterprises, "point-to-point, one-stop" return-to-work and return-to-work services for migrant workers, implement the policy of equal employment services for migrant workers in the place of employment; do a good job in decommissioning Military employment security; help disabled people, zero-employment families and other difficult groups to find employment. The third is to accelerate the growth of new business models and new models that have emerged in the prevention and control of the epidemic and create more new jobs. Fourth, improve vocational training and employment services. Expand the scale of vocational skills training, and subsidize training to secure positions. Open online unemployment registration and online unemployment insurance application to provide one-stop employment management and employment services for unemployed persons free of charge. Fifth, strengthen coordination and coordination of macro-control policies. Active fiscal policies are more active and promising, prudent monetary policies are more flexible and appropriate, employment priority policies are comprehensively strengthened, and fiscal, monetary, and investment policies work together to support stable employment.

　　It should be noted that the impact of the epidemic has not changed the fundamentals of my country’s long-term economic improvement, nor has it changed the basic conditions for stable employment. By vigorously stabilizing employment and ensuring employment, we have stabilized the basic job market and laid the foundation for employment, laying a solid foundation for stabilizing the economic foundation and the people's livelihood. With the accelerated recovery of production and living order, not only will traditional jobs be further released, but also jobs created by the new format will further increase, promoting the transformation of development mode and high-quality economic development. In the face of the epidemic situation examination, my country's employment system has fully demonstrated the huge advantages of stabilizing employment, securing employment and promoting development, and fully demonstrated the superiority of the system of people's livelihood first and employment priority.

Behind the remarkable results of stable employment and job security are the improvement of ideas and the improvement of systems

　　Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Party, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has attached great importance to employment work, continuously injecting new connotations into the employment priority strategy, and continuously improving the employment situation in my country and gradually improving the employment system. The report of the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out: "Implementation of employment priority strategy and more active employment policy." The Central Economic Work Conference held in 2018 first proposed "Implementation of employment priority policy" for the first time, and reiterated that General Secretary Xi Jinping held it in July of the same year. The first proposal at the Politburo meeting of the Communist Party of China was to do a good job of stabilizing employment, stabilizing finance, stabilizing foreign trade, stabilizing foreign investment, stabilizing investment, and stabilizing expectations, so as to further increase the intensity of stabilizing employment. In October 2019, "Implementation of Employment Priority Policy" was included in the "Decision" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee.

　　The change from "implementing a more active employment policy" to "implementing a priority employment policy" marks the deepening of our party's understanding of the socialist employment laws with Chinese characteristics and the sublimation of the employment concept. Employment priority is to take employment promotion as the priority goal of economic and social development, instead of replacing or representing the employment goal with the goal of economic growth rate, so that the economy will develop in a direction that is conducive to promoting more adequate and higher-quality employment. The results of economic growth are reflected in the improvement of people's livelihood; in measures, the priority of employment is closely combined with stable growth, promotion of reforms, structural adjustment, benefit of people's livelihood, risk prevention, and stability, and various measures to improve the quality of development. In the continuous growth of the total economic volume, we will continue to achieve more adequate employment, promote the expansion of employment scale and the improvement of employment quality in the optimization of the economic structure, and realize the virtuous circle of economic development, reform and innovation, and the expansion of employment and the improvement of employment quality.

　　Since the beginning of this year, in order to overcome the adverse effects brought about by the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, while emphasizing the work of "six stability", put forward a comprehensive implementation of the "six guarantees" task. In the "six stable" work, stable employment ranks first. In the "six guarantees" mission, the employment of guaranteed residents also ranks first. This year's government work report rarely raised specific targets for annual economic growth, but instead emphasized "priority and stability in employment and people's livelihood" and "leading all parties to concentrate on "six stability" and "six security".

　　Employment priority is not only reflected in the job requirements, but also implemented at the institutional level. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China’s employment system has been increasingly improved. It has not only established an all-round system including public employment services, vocational skills training, key group employment, entrepreneurship-driven employment, flexible employment, labor relations coordination, and fair employment. And gradually increase the position of employment policy in the system of macro-control system, so that people's employment is more firmly guaranteed by the system. The “Government Work Report” in 2019 places employment priority policies at the macro-policy level for the first time. The Fourth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China put forward "a sound macro-control system that takes the national development plan as the strategic guide, uses fiscal and monetary policies as the main means, and works in concert with the policies of employment, industry, investment, consumption, and regional policies." The “Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Accelerating the Improvement of the Socialist Market Economic System in the New Era” issued not long ago further pointed out that “improving the national development plan as the strategic guide, with fiscal policy, monetary policy and employment priority policy as the main means, investment and consumption , Industrial, regional and other policies to coordinate the development of a macro-control system." Raise the employment priority policy to the same position as the fiscal policy and monetary policy, and consolidate the position of the employment priority policy from the macro-control system. This is an important theoretical innovation and practical breakthrough, marking that the emphasis on employment has reached an unprecedented level height. In order to better implement the employment priority at the system level, we have also established and improved the employment impact assessment mechanism. When adjusting the economic structure, optimizing the industrial layout, and implementing major policy projects, we must simultaneously assess the impact on employment and synchronously formulate laborers involved. The shunt resettlement plan will take employment absorption and promotion capacity as an important basis.

Improve employment promotion mechanism, and strive to achieve fuller and higher quality employment

　　The "Decision" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee of the Party pointed out: "Improve the promotion mechanism conducive to more adequate and higher-quality employment" and make a comprehensive deployment of a sound employment promotion mechanism. To improve the promotion mechanism for fuller and higher quality employment is to meet the increasing employment needs of the people in the new era, is an important link to promote high-quality development, and is an effective way to solve structural employment contradictions and enhance the continuous employment ability of workers . In addition, in view of the fact that some major emergencies will aggravate the contradiction of total employment in a short time, in recent years, some regions of China have faced the problem of cyclical labor shortage and surplus labor rotation. Stabilizing labor demand is also needed to achieve more adequate and higher quality employment. Reality.

　　One is to improve the employment promotion mechanism, unify employment priority with high-quality economic development, take the promotion of fuller and higher-quality employment as the priority goal of economic and social development, and take the employment priority policy as the main means of the macro-control system to achieve the employment goal Under the premise of reasonable determination of economic growth and other goals, promote various macro policies to promote coordinated efforts to promote high-quality development, and form synergy around employment promotion.

　　The second is to improve public employment services, improve the lifelong vocational skills training system covering all urban and rural workers, throughout the laborer’s life-long learning and work, adapt to the needs of employment and entrepreneurship and talent growth, and economic and social development needs, improve the employment support system of key groups, and promote workers Improve employment skills and sustainable development capabilities.

　　The third is to establish a mechanism for promoting entrepreneurship to promote employment, flexible employment in multiple channels, establish and improve the employment assistance system, and adopt measures such as tax reductions, loan discounts, social insurance subsidies, job subsidies, and public welfare job placement to implement support for people with employment difficulties. Support and promote the sharing of development results.

　　Fourth, improve the unified and standardized human resources market system, resolutely prevent and correct employment discrimination, create a fair employment system environment, and promote the improvement of employment quality.

　　Fifth, in-depth study and grasp the regularity of labor relations under the conditions of socialist market economy, actively and steadily promote the innovation of labor relations work theory, system, system, mechanism and method with Chinese characteristics, improve the labor relations coordination mechanism, and strengthen the The "form" of the legal protection of workers, build a harmonious labor relationship, and promote the majority of workers to achieve decent work and comprehensive development.

　　(Author: Zhang Yi Tian Xi Jinping in Beijing new era of ideological socialism with Chinese characteristics research center special researcher, China Social Security Association)