News 1+1丨Employment growth, how to promote each other with economic development?

On April 4, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security held a press conference in the first quarter to release specific employment data for the first quarter. In the first quarter, 24.297 million new urban jobs were created in China, and the average unemployment rate in the national urban survey was 5.5%, and the data showed that the employment situation remained generally stable in the first quarter. Under the economic recovery, how to continue to stabilize employment? "News 1+1" invited Wu Sa, deputy director of the Economic Research Institute of the China Academy of Macroeconomic Research, to jointly focus: how to promote employment growth and economic development?

What was the employment situation in the first quarter of the economic recovery?

According to the annual target of about 1200 million new jobs, new urban jobs were created in the first quarter, completing nearly a quarter of the annual employment task. From the perspective of unemployment rate, in the first quarter, the average unemployment rate of the national urban survey was 5.5%, which was the same as the control target of about 5.5% for the whole year. What is the relationship between the employment data in the first quarter and China's economic recovery in the first quarter?

How to view the first quarter employment data?

Wu Sa, deputy director of the Economic Research Institute of the China Academy of Macroeconomic Research: Employment and the economy are mutually reinforcing. The strong recovery in the first quarter was reflected in employment, with nearly 300 million jobs significantly better than last year and the year before. At the same time, it is not easy to complete nearly 300 million new jobs in the first quarter. Because in the first month of the first three months of this year's first quarter, the impact of the epidemic has not yet passed, and then there is another Spring Festival, under such circumstances, we can still achieve a quarter of the annual employment target, which is a good start for this year's job growth. But we still can't take it lightly, employment is a long-lasting, long-term work, the next step we must also pay special attention to the employment of key groups, such as migrant workers, such as college students and so on.

How to stabilize the stock, expand the increment, and maintain the focus?

Wu Sa, deputy director of the Economic Research Institute of the China Academy of Macroeconomic Research: Stable stock is stable for enterprises that are already providing a large number of jobs to the society, especially the private economy, because private enterprises provide 80% of the entire social employment. Expansion is to expand some enterprises that can provide new jobs, including platform economy and digital economy, these new models and new industries will provide a new increment for employment. The key to ensuring key points is to protect key groups, including migrant workers, including college students, and so on. The core of employment is to stabilize the economy, and only when the economy is stable will employment be stable. Manufacturing is the artery of the economy, and if the manufacturing industry develops, there will be economic development. A very important point of foreign trade is that we are an important enterprise in building a new pattern, only when foreign trade enterprises are good, can our domestic and international circulation be opened, and the entire economy can enter a new pattern. Therefore, these enterprises not only provide important jobs themselves, but more importantly, they are of great significance for the high-quality development of our country. If these enterprises are grasped, they will grasp the bull's nose of high-quality development, and they will be able to promote the development of the entire economy, and then promote the development of the entire employment.

Where else can we make efforts to stabilize employment?

Wu Sa, deputy director of the Economic Research Institute of the China Academy of Macroeconomic Research: From the economic aspect, our core issue is to ensure sustained and healthy economic growth. I believe that the most important thing is to improve the quality of economic growth, improve the competitiveness of enterprises in the market, increase market capacity, so that our enterprises, economy and market can grow more steadily and rapidly. In growth, the size of the enterprise will increase, the number of jobs will increase, and the overall ability to provide jobs will also increase. Generally speaking, the main contradiction and problem at present is still the question of how to promote high-quality economic growth, as long as it is promoted in accordance with the unified deployment of the party, other problems can be easily solved, and the employment problem will be well resolved.