Recently, the toolbox for stabilizing employment and economic stability has been "new" again. A set of "combination punches" to support employment, stabilize foreign trade development, promote consumption, actively expand effective investment, and create a good environment for stable development is continuation with the package of incremental policies, the Central Economic Work Conference and the deployment of the National Two Sessions in September last year. It will further amplify the policy combination effect, superposition effect, and multiplier effect, and effectively promote the sustained recovery and improvement of my country's economy.
Employment is the greatest people's livelihood project, people's heart project, and fundamental project, and is an important guarantee for social stability. In the first quarter of this year, my country's employment situation remained generally stable, with 3.08 million new urban jobs being created nationwide, an increase of 50,000 more than the year-on-year, faster than the timing progress. More job opportunities are being created in fields such as advanced manufacturing, digital economy, and silver economy.
However, some challenges cannot be ignored. The number of college graduates in 2025 is expected to reach 12.22 million, and the employment peak will be approaching in June. There are still a large number of rural migrant workers who need to find employment. It is an objective fact that there is pressure on the total amount of employment. The pressure on foreign trade has brought an impact on my country's export enterprises and related employment positions; the digital transformation and intelligent upgrading of traditional industries have led to the reduction of some low-skilled jobs; although the demand for talents in emerging industries is strong, the scale of training is limited and it is difficult to meet the demand. This structural contradiction is manifested in the difficulty of some graduates to find their favorite jobs, and many companies are facing the dilemma of "difficulty in recruiting workers".
Faced with the new employment stabilization situation, the policy "combination punch" has made efforts to "expand" on the one hand, focusing on multi-channel exploration of employment jobs, and around key areas such as the development of new quality productivity, the creation of new consumption hotspots, the implementation of key projects, and the provision of basic people's livelihood services, it has introduced incentive policies, increased job release efforts, and actively expanded new employment growth points; on the other hand, it has made efforts to "increase efficiency", and regard employment for college graduates and other youth as the top priority, launch employment service campaigns, expand channels for migrant work and nearby employment, increase support for work-for-relief, increase vocational skills training, improve the pertinence of vocational skills training, and help key groups improve their job competitiveness and job adaptability.
To promote and implement employment stabilization policies, coordinated efforts are needed. But there is one thing that is beyond doubt: solving employment problems depends on development. Only when the "cake" of development is bigger can more high-quality jobs be provided, thereby making the "cake" of employment bigger. This requires the goal of "doing one thing efficiently", strengthen information sharing, decision-making consultation, and effectiveness evaluation among departments, promote coordination and linkage between fiscal, monetary, investment, consumption, industry, regional and other policies and employment policies, and make efforts in the same direction, so as to truly deliver the policy dividends to business entities and the masses. One policy for each industry and one policy for each enterprise, increase support for expanding jobs for enterprises, reduce domestic sales costs for foreign trade enterprises, and ensure the reasonable financing needs of small and medium-sized enterprises... Stabilizing enterprises will stabilize employment, stabilize the market, and stabilize the economy.
Focusing on the needs of development, the expectations of enterprises, and the urgent needs of people's livelihood, this set of policy "combination punches" is not only an accurate response to current challenges, but also a plan for long-term development. To support employment, stabilize foreign trade development, promote consumption, actively expand effective investment, and create a good environment for stable development, we need to fight several "tough battles" against the immediate problems, one by one, one by one, and one by one, and one by one, and one by one, we need to launch a "protracted war" and organize a continuous offensive that sticks one by one, one by one, and one by one, so as to achieve a mutual promotion and virtuous cycle of stabilizing expectations, strengthening confidence and stabilizing the economy.
my country is a country with a large population and is in a critical period of changing its development model, optimizing its economic structure, and changing its growth momentum. The pressure to stabilize employment and economy always exists. The world is facing major changes unseen in a century, with significant uncertainty increasing, and the challenges of stabilizing employment and economy have always been severe. Faced with "multiple difficulties", we will make policy pre-research reserves in a normal and open manner, continuously improve the policy toolbox to stabilize employment and economy, and transform the value of the policy into high-quality development. We are confident in facing all storms and challenges and achieve the established strategic goals. (Author: Jin Guanping)
