China Unveils Employment Priority Strategy for Quality Job Growth

(IV) Enhance the employment absorption capacity of regional coordinated development. Deeply implement regional coordinated development strategies and major regional strategies to accelerate the formation of employment agglomeration areas and growth poles characterized by integrated services, coherent policies, and unobstructed channels. Guide the orderly transfer of capital, technology, and labor-intensive industries from the eastern regions to the central and western regions, and from central cities to the hinterland. Increase policy support for revolutionary old districts, border areas, and resource-exhausted areas to promote balanced employment development across regions.

(V) Cultivate new drivers for employment expansion and quality improvement. Expand new spaces for employment in the digital economy by vigorously advancing industrial digitization and digital industrialization, supporting the healthy development of the platform economy, and effectively exploring job potential and career transitions during digital transformation. Increase new opportunities for green employment by actively developing green industries such as energy conservation, carbon reduction, environmental protection, ecological protection, and restoration and utilization, promoting the synergistic enhancement of green development and employment growth. Open up new areas for healthcare employment, develop the silver economy, and promote the deep integration of health with elderly care, tourism, leisure, food, and other industries to create new employment growth points.

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III. Focus on Solving Structural Employment Contradictions

(VI) Improve the matching degree between educational supply and talent demand. Adapt to the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, scientifically judge the development trend of human resources, and coordinate education, training, and employment. Promote high-quality development of higher education, expand the enrollment scale of science, engineering, agriculture, and medical majors, and optimize and adjust the setting of disciplines and specialties according to social needs, industrial demands, and career development. Use employment status as an important basis for the allocation of educational resources, assessment of educational quality, and arrangement of enrollment plans, and implement a red-yellow warning system for majors with low employment quality. Accelerate the development of modern vocational education, promote the integration of vocational and general education, industry-education integration, and the convergence of science and education to cultivate more high-quality technical and skilled talents. Promote high-quality and characteristic development of skilled worker education, organize a batch of skilled worker education alliances (groups), and select and build a batch of high-quality skilled worker schools and specialties. Integrate career education into the entire process of university talent cultivation, and promote career enlightenment, cognition, and experience in the senior high school stage.

(VII) Improve the lifelong vocational skills training system. Implement the Skills China Action, vigorously carry out vocational skills training, fully implement new apprentice training in enterprises, and build a vocational skills training system that runs through the entire learning and working life of workers and covers the entire career. Strengthen the construction of public training bases and high-skilled talent training bases, encourage enterprises to build vocational skills training bases, and form a vocational skills training supply system dominated by market-oriented training and autonomous training by industries and enterprises as the main body. Guide enterprises to extract and use employee education funds in full accordance with regulations, ensure that more than 60% of the funds are used for the education and training of front-line employees, and allow the funds to be used for the establishment of vocational schools (including skilled worker schools) by enterprises.

(VIII) Expand the development channels for skilled talents. Establish and improve the national qualification framework, promote the two-way comparison and recognition of professional qualifications and vocational skill levels with corresponding titles and academic qualifications, promote the implementation of the "academic certificate + several vocational skill certificates" system, actively explore and cultivate new professional sequences, and timely release new professions. Smooth the career development channels, support eligible enterprises to carry out the evaluation and employment of special-grade technicians and chief technicians, establish a batch of skill master studios and labor model craftsman innovation studios. Dynamically release skill talent salary price information to guide enterprises to gradually improve the salary treatment of skill talents. Improve the vocational skills competition system led by the World Skills Competition, headed by the National Vocational Skills Competition, with national industry and local levels of vocational skills competitions and special competitions as the main body, and enterprise and school vocational skills competitions as the foundation, and improve relevant commendation and reward policies.

IV. Improve the Employment Support System for Key Groups

(IX) Expand employment and career development channels for college graduates and other young people. Promote market-oriented employment, improve policies on salary treatment, title evaluation and appointment, training and further education, develop more employment positions that are conducive to giving full play to their knowledge and strengths, encourage young people to engage in employment and entrepreneurship in key areas, key industries, urban and rural grassroots, and small and medium-sized enterprises, and places with conditions can increase policy support for college graduates employed in small and medium-sized enterprises in counties and townships. Enhance the efficiency of youth employment services, strengthen targeted career guidance, job introduction, skill training, and internships, and form a service support system that connects inside and outside school to help growth and career development. Implement special plans for youth employment, such as the Youth Employment启航 and "Hongzhi Zhuhang" plans, strengthen employment assistance for graduates from difficult families and long-term unemployed youth, and promote their early employment and integration into society. Support returning overseas students to enjoy equal employment and entrepreneurship policies and services.

(X) Do a good job in employment service and support for veterans. Improve the veterans' education and training system that runs concurrently with academic education, vocational skills training, entrepreneurship training, and personalized training. Explore job resources, explore the "training first, job follow-up" employment model, and encourage outstanding veterans to work in grassroots Party organizations, urban and rural communities, and veterans service organizations in accordance with relevant regulations. Guide veterans to start businesses around key areas supported by the state.

(XI) Expand the employment and income growth space for rural labor. Grow county-based wealth-creating industries, introduce a batch of new professions needed for the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, focus on guiding talents to return to their hometowns and urban talents to start businesses in rural areas, implement work-relief programs, and accelerate the formation of a two-way flow and integrated urban-rural employment pattern. Organize regional labor cooperation alliances, carry out the identification and cultivation of labor brands, and improve the integrated employment service, vocational training, and rights protection system for migrant workers. Promote the normalization of employment assistance for rural low-income populations and prevent large-scale poverty due to unemployment.(12) Improve the employment assistance system for disadvantaged groups. Strengthen support for older workers, people with disabilities, and those who have been unemployed for a long time, and reasonably determine and dynamically adjust the criteria for identifying employment-disadvantaged individuals. Improve the employment assistance system that ensures timely identification, priority service, targeted assistance, and dynamic management. Encourage and support enterprises to absorb employment and self-employment, and make comprehensive use of public welfare positions to ensure that zero-employment families are dynamically cleared. Create a variety of personalized employment positions suitable for the elderly, and strengthen services such as job seeking, employment, and skill training. Employers who hire workers over the legal retirement age must legally guarantee the workers' basic rights to receive labor remuneration, labor safety and health protection, and work injury insurance, and support employers to participate in social insurance according to regulations.

(13) Optimize the support system for self-employment and flexible employment. Improve the support system for entrepreneurship training, services, incubation, and activities, optimize the policy environment for entrepreneurship to promote employment, and enhance the quality of entrepreneurship. Support the healthy development of flexible employment, and build regional and industry-specific casual labor markets and functional and convenient casual labor stations. Support and regulate the development of new forms of employment, expand the pilot of occupational injury insurance for workers in new forms of employment, ensure their right to know and participate in platform labor rules, and facilitate channels for workers to protect their rights. For employment-disadvantaged individuals and college graduates who have not been employed within two years after graduation and engage in flexible employment, provide certain social insurance subsidies according to regulations.

V. Improve the Precision and Efficiency of the Employment Public Service System

(14) Improve the employment public service system that covers the entire population. Adhere to inclusiveness, foundation, and safety nets, improve the service list, strengthen the service responsibilities of the place of residence and employment, and promote employment public services to cover the entire permanent population, benefit all employers, and fully penetrate employment and entrepreneurship. Enhance the professional level of services, leverage the role of demonstration projects for improving public employment service capabilities, regularly conduct business drills and skill competitions, support practitioners of employment services in public employment service institutions and colleges to apply for relevant professional titles, and promote the innovative development of the human resources service industry and expand service supply.

(15) Strengthen the foundation of employment public services oriented towards the grassroots. Include the construction of the employment public service system in the economic and social development and territorial space-related plans, and layout service facilities and personnel teams based on regional characteristics, population characteristics, and service radius, to promote service resources to extend to the grassroots, cover rural areas, and tilt towards remote areas and disadvantaged groups. Integrate grassroots employment public services into the scope of grassroots governance led by party building, include them in grassroots livelihood security service matters, create "home-based" employment service stations and "15-minute" employment service circles, and establish a unified, reasonable, standardized, and efficient grassroots employment public service network.

(16) Implement employment public service models empowered by digital technology. Establish a unified national employment information resource library, launch a national employment public service platform, and achieve integrated processing of employment matters, precise services, and intelligent supervision. Promote models empowered by digital technology, on-site investigation, and precise services, and promote data sharing and comparison among human resources and social security, education, public security, civil affairs, taxation, market supervision, and other departments, to actively and accurately push policies and services to employers and workers.

VI. Improve the Level of Employment Rights Protection for Workers

(17) Protect equal employment rights. Resolutely eliminate institutional and mechanical barriers affecting the flow of labor and talent, synchronize reforms in household registration, employment, archives, and other services, eliminate unreasonable restrictions and employment discrimination affecting equal employment such as region, identity, gender, and age, and unblock channels for social mobility. Improve the relief mechanism for employment discrimination, include it in the scope of labor security supervision according to the law, improve the civil support prosecution mechanism, and carry out public interest litigation and prosecution work steadily. Improve the mechanisms for promoting employment of people with disabilities in proportion, centralized employment, and self-employment, and give full play to the role of the employment security fund for people with disabilities in promoting employment. Protect the legitimate rights and interests of women in employment, entrepreneurship, career development, skill training, occupational health and safety, and other aspects, improve the support system for childbirth security, inclusive childcare, and employment support, and build a childbirth-friendly employment environment.

(18) Promote reasonable growth of labor remuneration. Improve the initial distribution mechanism where labor, knowledge, technology, and other factors participate in distribution according to their contributions, and increase the proportion of labor remuneration in the initial distribution. Strengthen macro guidance on enterprise wage distribution, and improve the mechanisms for determining workers' wages, reasonable growth, and payment security.

(19) Build a harmonious labor relationship. Improve the mechanism for labor relations consultation and coordination, and promote enterprises to legally protect workers' legitimate rights and interests in obtaining labor remuneration, rest and vacation, and obtaining labor safety and health protection. Strengthen the construction of labor security supervision and labor dispute mediation and arbitration teams, continue to rectify the order of the human resources market, and effectively govern phenomena such as wage arrears, insurance arrears, illegal layoffs, and job-seeking traps.(20) Expand the coverage of social security. Promote the participation of employers and employees in social insurance in accordance with the law, improve the social security system for flexible employment personnel, migrant workers, and new forms of employment, and completely eliminate the household registration restrictions for insurance participation in the place of employment. Promote the extensive coverage of unemployment insurance, work injury insurance, and housing provident funds to professional workers. Improve the linkage mechanism between employment and unemployment insurance, minimum living security, and provide unemployment insurance benefits in accordance with regulations, offer tiered and categorized social assistance, and adjust and improve the minimum living security phase-out period and employment cost deduction provisions.

VII. Gather the Workforce to Promote High-Quality and Full Employment

(21) Strengthen organizational leadership. Adhere to the implementation of the Party's leadership in all areas and the entire process of promoting high-quality and full employment work. Make employment work an important part of the performance assessment of party and government leadership teams at the county level and above, and carry out commendations for employment work in accordance with relevant regulations. All regions, relevant departments, and units should regard employment as the top priority of people's livelihood, strengthen the organization and implementation, improve the system and mechanism, enhance the synergy of work, and ensure the implementation of this opinion in line with actual conditions, to ensure that the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council are effectively implemented.

(22) Strengthen support and protection. Study and improve the legal system related to employment promotion and anti-employment discrimination. Reasonably arrange employment subsidy funds, use unemployment insurance funds, various industrial guidance funds, and other funds to promote employment in a coordinated manner, and improve the system of government purchase of employment public services. Accelerate the construction of the Chinese employment theory system, strengthen employment theory research and the construction of consulting think tanks. Strengthen international cooperation in the field of employment, establish a normalized dialogue mechanism, and enhance China's international discourse power and influence in the field of employment.

(23) Guard against and resolve major risks. Establish and improve a statistical monitoring system for high-quality and full employment, establish a job position survey system, and carry out assessments of high-quality and full employment in a timely manner. Improve the mechanism for preventing and resolving large-scale unemployment risks, strengthen monitoring and early warning, policy reserves, and emergency response, and有条件的地方 can establish an employment risk reserve fund to properly respond to major risks in the field of employment. Actively respond to the impact of the rapid development of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence on employment.

(24) Create a positive atmosphere. Carry out concentrated employment promotion and skill publicity activities in a timely manner, increase the intensity of policy publicity and interpretation, summarize and publicize typical experiences and implementation effects in a timely manner, strengthen public opinion guidance, and promote the formation of a good atmosphere in which the whole society cares about and supports employment.

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