China will further endeavor to promote high-quality and full employment, said Li Chunlin, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), at a press conference in Beijing on Tuesday.
Elaborating on the distribution of labor force and emerging jobs, Li said that the key to expanding employment is development, especially high-quality development.
Noting that it is a normal phenomenon that labor flows from industries with low labor productivity to those with high labor productivity, Li pointed out that while technological progress props up economic transformation and industrial upgrading, it will also give rise to a plenty of new occupations and new jobs.
"The NDRC will vigorously carry out the employment-first strategy, strengthen the coordination of macro policies, guide people to set up correct employment ideas, and adhere to promoting employment by relying on development. First, we will expand effective demand to create new employment growth points. We will give play to the leading and driving role of investment within the central government budget and take multiple measures to stimulate the vitality of private investment. We will also speed up the implementation of important measures, such as major national strategies and security capacity building in key areas and large-scale upgrading of equipment and the replacement of old consumer goods with new ones, and increase support for projects with good employment effects," said Li.
"Second, we will enhance the employment creation effect of emerging industries. We will develop new quality productive forces in line with local conditions, and cultivate and expand strategic emerging industries and future-oriented industries such as new-generation information technology, energy conservation and environmental protection, biotechnology, new materials, and new energy, so as to create more knowledge- and skill-based jobs," he said.
At present, there are about 30 million people working in the domestic service industry in China, while the market actually demands as high as 50 million people, according to Li.
"Third, we will expand employment space in the life service industry. We will innovate and develop service consumption, accelerate the cultivation of new consumption scenarios, and vigorously develop the silver economy. Also, we must fully unleash the employment potential in social service fields such as elderly care, housekeeping, childcare, and logistics," he said.
"Fourth, we will give play to the role of vocational education and skills training in promoting employment. We'll coordinate resources from multiple channels to increase investment in the construction of skills training infrastructure, and guide local governments to build and use public training bases, industry-education integration training bases and other platforms, so as to accurately match the employment needs of enterprises," said Li.
China to promote high-quality, full employment
