Officials from the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security answered questions from reporters on the implementation of the "Fifteen-Five" plan for prioritizing employment strategies.

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 17th: Officials from the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security answered questions from reporters on the "Implementation of the Employment Priority Strategy '15th Five-Year Plan'". Recently, the State Council issued the "Implementation of the Employment Priority Strategy '15th Five-Year Plan'", which clarified the ideas, goals, key tasks, and policy measures for the in-depth implementation of the employment priority strategy and promotion of high-quality and full employment during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. Why was the plan issued? What are the key deployments of the plan? Officials from the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security answered these questions on the 17th. Question: What is the background of the issuance of the plan? During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the Party Central Committee insisted on giving priority to employment in governing the country, strengthened employment priority policies, improved the employment promotion mechanism, effectively responded to risks and challenges, maintained overall stability in employment, and provided important support for improving people's livelihoods and economic development. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the long-term favorable conditions and basic trends of China's economy have not changed, and the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, the super-large market, the complete industrial system, and abundant human resources have become more prominent, providing important support for high-quality and full employment. At the same time, it is necessary to see that there are still many prominent contradictions and problems in employment work, the pressure to stabilize employment always exists, and structural employment contradictions continue to emerge. In order to implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, together with relevant parties, conducted in-depth analysis of the development situation and stage characteristics of employment during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, coordinated and planned the ideas, goals, and major measures for employment work during the "15th Five-Year Plan", widely solicited opinions and suggestions, and formulated the plan. Question: What are the characteristics of the plan? First, it emphasizes both quality and quantity. Focusing on promoting high-quality and full employment goals, it emphasizes stabilizing and expanding employment scale while also focusing on improving employment quality, such as employment environment, job matching, labor relations, and rights protection. Second, it emphasizes supply and demand matching. Adapting to new situations and changes in economic and social development, it focuses on addressing structural employment contradictions through targeted solutions. Third, it emphasizes government-market coordination. It emphasizes better play of the government's role, improving the employment public service system, as well as promoting employment through industrial development, combining effective markets with an active government. Fourth, it emphasizes both traditional and emerging industries. It emphasizes stabilizing employment in traditional labor-intensive industries as well as expanding employment capacity in the service industry, emerging industries, and future industries. It emphasizes continuing to do well in employment for college graduates, migrant workers, and veterans, while also deploying measures for flexible employment and new forms of employment for workers. Question: What are the considerations in setting goals for the plan? The plan fully connects with the recommendations and outlines of the "15th Five-Year Plan" and puts forward the overall goal of maintaining overall stability in employment during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period and making new progress in high-quality and full employment. It aims to achieve the following specific goals: More abundant employment opportunities. Stable growth of urban employment, effective control of unemployment levels, stability in the employment of key groups, ensuring that at least one person in zero-employment families obtains employment. A fairer employment environment. Further improving the unified and standardized human resources market system, promoting the improvement of the institutional mechanisms for labor mobility and talents, and effectively addressing unreasonable restrictions on equal employment and employment discrimination. Optimized employment structure. Further enhancing the role of the service industry in creating employment, steadily increasing the proportion of urban employment in total employment, making regional employment structures more rational, and promoting the healthy development of flexible employment and new forms of employment. More efficient job matching. Accelerating the modernization of human resources, making the discipline and specialty layout more reasonable, conducting more precise and efficient vocational skills training and employment public services, continuously expanding the skilled workforce, enhancing the capacity and quality of human resources services, and significantly improving the matching degree between labor supply and industrial development needs. More harmonious labor relations. Further improving the system of labor and employment regulations, standardizing employment practices, ensuring reasonable wage growth, continuously improving the social security system, and steadily increasing the level of protection of workers' rights. At the same time, it sets ten main indicators such as urban new employment, urban surveyed unemployment rate, and the proportion of urban employment in total employment. Question: What are the key tasks deployed in the plan? The plan deploys nine key tasks. The first is to strengthen the macro-control employment priority orientation, enhance the coordination of macro policies for employment, implement actions to stabilize, expand, and improve job opportunities, and promote employment and entrepreneurship in response to the development of artificial intelligence. The second is to strengthen the coordination between industry and employment, stabilize employment scale in labor-intensive industries, expand employment capacity in the service industry, and tap into the employment potential in emerging fields. The third is to accelerate the shaping of modern human resources, improve the matching degree of education supply with talent demand, and carry out large-scale vocational skills training. The fourth is to expand channels for young employment and talent development, improve the full-chain employment support system including policy incentives, service guarantees, difficulty support, and rights protection. The fifth is to increase support for key groups such as migrant workers and veterans, strengthen employment support for difficult groups such as the unemployed and registered unemployed. The sixth is to promote the healthy development of flexible employment and emerging forms of employment, broaden development channels, strengthen public services, and protect legitimate rights and interests. The seventh is to improve the employment and entrepreneurship service system, promote the high-quality and efficient development of human resources services. The eighth is to strengthen the protection of workers' employment rights and interests, improve the labor standard system and the mechanism for labor relations negotiation and coordination, and safeguard equal employment rights. The ninth is to strengthen employment monitoring and early warning and risk response, enhance the scientific analysis and judgment of the employment situation. Question: How to ensure the effective implementation of the plan? First, clarify the responsibilities of all parties. Insist on implementing the Party's leadership throughout the entire process of implementing the employment priority strategy and promoting high-quality and full employment. Give full play to the role of the employment promotion and labor protection coordination mechanism, clarify the responsibilities of various regions and departments, strengthen overall planning, focus on systematic measures, enhance the synergy of work, and implement the tasks of the plan effectively based on the actual situation. Second, improve the working mechanism. Further improve the employment work system with integrated systems, coordinated linkage, data empowerment, scientific management, and legal guarantees, forming a good atmosphere where the government, enterprises, society, and other parties pay attention to and support employment. Third, strengthen monitoring and evaluation. The National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security will strengthen the dynamic monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of the plan, coordinate the resolution of major issues, and optimize tasks and measures based on the actual situation. This article is reprinted from "Xinhuanet Co., Ltd.", GMTEight Editor: Feng Qiuyi.