Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 7. Question: In 2022, how to implement "employment first"?

Xinhua News Agency reporters Jiang Lin and Shi Yucen Employment is the greatest livelihood issue and is also one of the focuses of this year’s National Two Sessions.

Faced with the triple pressure of shrinking demand, supply shocks, and weakening expectations, the government work report proposed to "strengthen employment priority policies" and "all regions must do everything possible to stabilize and expand employment."

How to improve the quality and implementation of the employment priority policy?

How to achieve the goal of creating more than 11 million new urban jobs?

The reporter interviewed many representatives, committee members and experts.

The key to strengthening employment priority is to "stabilize market entities." As soon as the government work report was received, Dai Yuanhu, a representative of the National People's Congress and director of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security, noticed that "employment" became a high-frequency word in the report.

"This shows that we attach great importance to stabilizing employment this year." The report places employment priority policies at the macro policy level, and proposes that fiscal, taxation, financial and other policies should be implemented around employment priority, and various special employment promotion policies should be strengthened and optimized.

Reasonable restrictions must be resolutely eliminated.

“The first is to give priority to target positioning and strengthen the government’s responsibility to promote employment; secondly, to give priority to policy formulation, strengthen the coordination of employment policies with fiscal, taxation, industry, finance, social and other policies, and fully consider them in the formulation and evaluation of various policies.

The driving role of employment; thirdly, service supply must be prioritized, and providing convenient and efficient employment services should be the primary content of providing practical services to the people," said Dai Yuanhu.

"The key to strengthening employment priority is to 'stabilize market entities.'" Zheng Yali, a representative of the National People's Congress and president of Zhejiang Finance Vocational College, said, "The current economy is recovering steadily, but there are still some industries and enterprises whose production and operations have not yet fully recovered. In addition, the structure of employment

Sexual conflicts have not been fundamentally alleviated, and the phenomenon of "difficulty in employment" and "difficulty in recruiting people" still exists. "Hundreds of millions of market entities support hundreds of millions of people in employment and entrepreneurship.

The report emphasizes that attention should be paid to stabilizing employment by stabilizing market entities and enhancing the role of entrepreneurship in driving employment.

Increase support for enterprises to stabilize and expand jobs.

According to the report, this year, my country will continue to implement phased employment stabilization policies such as reducing unemployment and work-related injury insurance premiums.

For companies that do not lay off employees but only lay off employees, we will continue to implement the unemployment insurance return policy to stabilize employment, and significantly increase the proportion of returns to small, medium and micro enterprises.

"This year Jiangsu's refund ratio to small, medium and micro enterprises can be raised to 90%." Dai Yuanhu said.

Actively serve the employment of key groups such as college graduates. In 2022, the number of college graduates is expected to exceed 10 million for the first time, reaching 10.76 million. Both the total number and the increase are the highest in recent years.

The report proposes that "employment and entrepreneurship policy support and continuous online services must be strengthened" for college graduates.

The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said that this year it will give top priority to the employment of young people such as college graduates, increase employment support measures for small, medium and micro enterprises to attract graduates, implement a plan to recruit millions of youth trainee positions, simplify and optimize the employment procedures for graduates,

Expand market-oriented social employment channels.

Zheng Yali suggested: On the one hand, we should expand employment space and introduce more policies and measures that can encourage college students to find employment in small and medium-sized cities, grassroots units, and small and medium-sized enterprises.

On the other hand, all parties in society should care about the development of young groups such as college graduates and adjust their thinking and models of recruitment and employment in a timely manner.

According to Liu Lin, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and president of Beijing City University, employment services and attention should be focused on people with employment difficulties and special groups to provide them with basic protection.

In accordance with the requirements of the report, we will ensure the placement and employment of retired military personnel, promote the employment of migrant workers, and help disabled people and zero-employment family members find employment.

New business formats have attracted a large number of new jobs in recent years, and the number of flexible employees, including couriers, takeaway riders, and online ride-hailing drivers, has reached 200 million.

The report proposes to improve social security policies for flexible employment and launch pilot projects for occupational injury protection in new employment forms.

"In view of the characteristics of platform employment relationships that are complex and difficult to include in social security, while standardizing the labor contracts of flexible employment personnel and protecting their legitimate rights and interests, an independent insurance participation platform for flexible employment personnel can be established within the national social security system, with clear payment standards and continuous

Increase their enthusiasm for participating in insurance," suggested Li Dongsheng, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman of TCL Group.

Efforts to eliminate employment discrimination, increase training to promote the matching of supply and demand by gender, fresh graduates and other employment discrimination, as well as opaque employment recruitment information, are currently causing difficulties for many job seekers.

The report proposes to resolutely prevent and correct gender, age and other employment discrimination, and strive to solve outstanding problems that infringe on the legitimate rights and interests of workers, which has received widespread attention from society.

"In real life, the employment environment is not friendly to some middle-aged people, and some units set age red lines in recruitment." Hu Wei, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and executive deputy director of Shanghai China Vocational Education Society, brought a proposal that "

It is necessary to create a fair employment environment and help workers of all ages to develop their talents." He Dan, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and director of the China Population and Development Research Center, is concerned about the risks of employment discrimination against women caused by extended maternity leave in various places.