China News Service, Beijing, December 21 (Reporter Zhang Weiran) The "Social Blue Book: Analysis and Forecast of China's Social Situation in 2021" report was released in Beijing on the 21st.
According to the report, during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's working-age population will still remain at around 900 million people. It is necessary to further improve the efficiency of resource allocation and strengthen the industry development orientation of giving priority to employment.
On the same day, the "2021 Social Blue Book Release and China Social Situation Report" hosted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and hosted by the Research Bureau of the Academy of Social Sciences, the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Social Sciences, and the Social Sciences Literature Press was held.
When talking about the social development situation and countermeasures in 2021 and the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the report recommends that China strengthen the industry development orientation of giving priority to employment.
According to the report, during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's working-age population will remain at around 900 million, and the number of new college graduates will exceed 9 million every year.
It is necessary to further improve the efficiency of resource allocation, guide funds to move from virtual to real, revitalize the real economy, and provide real industry support for labor employment.
The report also pointed out that it is necessary to strengthen the fundamental role of consumption in economic development, with special emphasis on improving the quality of residents' consumption by raising income levels, combining new business forms and new models to promote the upgrading of residents' consumption, promoting the integrated development of online and offline consumption, and opening up the urban and rural consumer market. , Actively cultivate a large domestic consumer market, and lay a solid foundation for consumption for opening up the domestic economic cycle.
According to the analysis of the report, the current middle-income group in China has reached more than 400 million people, but this group accounts for only about 30% of the total population, and there is still much room and potential for growth.
It is necessary to accelerate the development of middle-income groups and promote the modernization and improvement of the social structure.
Li Peilin, vice chairman of the Social Construction Committee of the National People's Congress and member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that there are currently two shortcomings in China's social structure, and it is necessary to focus on "structural improvement."
The first is the shortcomings of the urban and rural structure, that is, the total amount of farmers is too large and the income is too low. This involves a series of improvements in social structure such as regional structure, employment structure, occupation structure, and consumption structure.
The other is the shortcoming of the income distribution structure, that is, the income gap is too large and the proportion of middle-income groups is low.
These two shortcomings are closely related.
How to make the vast number of farmers prosper and enter the middle-income group is a difficult problem facing China's modernization.
For this reason, he suggested that China should pay more attention to releasing social vitality in the future. For example, to release the vitality of the market, it is necessary to regulate and support the "gig economy" of various new types of employment and flexible employment, and to provide greater assistance to the employment of vulnerable families and low-income groups. Another example is to release rural vitality, encourage farmers to work more extensively, promote new labor transfers characterized by the transfer of farmers' surplus labor time, make greater efforts to revitalize idle rural assets, and do everything possible to make a considerable number of farmers enter the middle-income group. (Finish)