China's digital talent gap approached 11 million last year

　　The digital economy opens up a new space for employment (online China)

　　Our reporter Gao Qiao

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The “Research Report on Employment Impacts of the Digital Economy” recently released by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology pointed out that the digital economy is playing an increasingly important role in creating new jobs and optimizing the employment structure, and the huge potential of flexible employment on digital platforms should be tapped in depth.

　　The scale of employment continues to expand

　　Intelligent manufacturing engineering and technical personnel, industrial Internet engineering and technical personnel, virtual reality engineering and technical personnel, intelligent hardware installation and adjustment personnel, industrial vision system operation and maintenance personnel... In recent years, a number of new occupations related to the digital industry have been "official Certification".

The booming digital economy-related industries are quietly changing China's employment structure.

　　The "Digital Economy Employment Impact Research Report" points out that the digital economy breaks the boundaries of time and space and forms a coordinated, open, and multilateral economic model.

New forms of employment have emerged with the development of digital technology, and technological progress has brought new opportunities for creating new jobs, increasing productivity, and providing effective public services.

　　In 2020, the scale of China's digital economy will reach 39.2 trillion yuan, becoming a key driving force for stable economic growth, which will bring about a rapid expansion of the scale of employment in the digital economy.

The report issued by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology pointed out that from the overall structure, the proportion of digital industrialization jobs is significantly higher than the proportion of GDP realized by digital industrialization in the same period, and the high-end employment absorption capacity is strong.

From the perspective of the structure of the digital economy, job postings in the digital industrialization field accounted for 32.6% of the total number of recruits, and accounted for 24.2% of the total number of recruits.

　　"The digital economy has created new employment opportunities and employment patterns. The application of new technologies has improved production efficiency in the digital economy era, increased labor income and product market demand, and increased the labor demand of enterprises." Gong Liutang, professor at Peking University Guanghua School of Management Say.

Talent supply needs to be improved

　　Experts believe that the rapid development of the digital economy will give birth to a large number of flexible employment personnel and a variety of new employment forms, and open up more room for development to ensure the employment and entrepreneurship of urban and rural labor.

In addition, as an emerging technology, digital technology also brings new opportunities and challenges to the Chinese job market.

　　The "Digital Economy Employment Impact Research Report" pointed out that the new employment model of the digital economy will have a new impact on employment patterns, accelerating the increase in the proportion of employment in related industries.

Data shows that China's digital talent gap in 2020 is close to 11 million. With the advancement of digitalization in the whole industry, a wider range of digital talents are needed, and the talent demand gap is still expanding.

　　"At present, the main problems related to employment in China's digital economy are: the digital economy intensifies the flow of digital talents between regions, and further expands the imbalance of regional development; China's current education level and structure do not match the demand for labor education in the digital economy, and digitalization The supply of talents is obviously insufficient; the industrial distribution of digital talents is uneven, digital talents are concentrated in the tertiary industry, digital jobs account for a relatively low proportion of the primary and secondary industries, and the adjustment of the employment supply structure lags behind the adjustment of the industrial structure." Gong Liutang believes, To promote employment in the digital economy, we must improve the construction of digital infrastructure and promote the equalization of digital infrastructure; accelerate the construction of a multi-level talent training system for the digital economy, improve the level and quality of labor supply in the digital economy; continue to introduce policies to expand new models and formats, and standardize the market. Attract more employment; promote the digital transformation of the industry, and promote the upgrading of the employment structure with the optimization of the industrial structure.

　　Create more jobs

　　The "World Internet Development Report 2021" issued by the China Cyberspace Research Institute pointed out that the digital economy has become an important choice for countries around the world to respond to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic and accelerate economic and social transformation.

Countries are accelerating the deployment of new infrastructure, and new information infrastructure represented by 5G, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, industrial Internet, and satellite Internet has gradually become a new driving force for global economic growth.

The digital economy has become an important engine for global economic development, and it is also an important focus of China's economic transformation and upgrading.

Relevant Chinese authorities have successively issued policies such as the "Actions for Promoting Employment in the Digital Platform Economy and Helping Alleviation of Poverty" and "Opinions on Supporting the Healthy Development of New Business Forms and New Models to Activate the Consumer Market to Drive Employment Expansion" to promote the steady growth of employment in the digital economy.

　　"With the help of technologies such as online payments, mini programs, smart retail tools, and efficient and coordinated logistics networks, the digital ecosystem has opened up new employment opportunities for people with disabilities, migrant workers, housewives, veterans and other key employment assistance groups. More and more people are employed in the digital ecosystem.” Weng Hang, a senior researcher in the Public Affairs Department of Tencent Group, pointed out that in 2020, there will be more than 7.8 million job opportunities in the development, product, and operation of WeChat Mini Programs. , An increase of 45.6% year-on-year.

　　Wang Xiaoguang, deputy director of the Economics Department of the Central Party School (National School of Administration), believes that the digital economy is an important force to promote China's high-quality development in the new stage of development, and it is an important way to solve the employment difficulties of college students and promote the increase of the proportion of middle-income groups.

In addition to maintaining support for small, medium and micro enterprises in fiscal, financial and employment policies, it is more important to stabilize traditions and promote innovation.

Stabilizing tradition means protecting the integrity and rejuvenation of traditional business systems; promoting innovation means giving full play to the economic advantages of the platform and maximizing the creation of rich and diverse digital employment opportunities.