By Li Xinping, People’s Daily
While enjoying a generally stable job market, China created 10.97 million urban jobs from January to September 2019, close to the year’s target, according to a news conference held by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MHRSS) on Monday.
The overall employment situation will remain stable in the fourth quarter, said Zhang Ying, an official of the MHRSS, who added that it’s likely that the country will achieve this year’s urban job creation target ahead of schedule and keep the registered urban unemployment rate and surveyed urban unemployment rate below target figures.
The positive outlook of the job market is based on the solid foundation laid in the first three quarters. The country has taken powerful measures to stabilize employment.
The policy measures to stabilize employment continue to take effect. From January to September, 750,000 enterprises without or with few layoffs got a refund of their unemployment insurance premiums amounting to 27.5 billion yuan (about $3.89 billion), benefiting 39.93 million employees.
During the same period, 810,000 people got subsidies worth 1.29 billion yuan for improvement of vocational skills.
Key employment indicators run within a reasonable range. The registered urban jobless rate in Q3 stood at 3.61 percent, down 0.21 percentage points from the same time last year. Surveyed urban unemployment rate in September came in at 5.2 percent, lower than the target at 5.5 percent.
The relationship between the demand for and supply of labor is stable. In Q3, the ratio of jobs to job hunters stood at 1.24 in 100 cities.
Job market enjoys a solid foundation. From January to September, 1.33 million people having difficulties securing jobs were employed, outnumbering the year’s target of 1.3 million people.
The employment rate of college graduates in 2019 remains generally the same as those of the past years. The stable employment of key groups well underpinned the overall stability of the employment market.
The overall stability in the job market offers Chinese economy solid foundation and considerable wiggle room for coping with downturn pressure and external impacts, said Liu Yuanchun, Vice President of Renmin University of China.
The MHRSS will continue prioritizing employment policies and trying to highlight and support employment in every aspect, so as to foster a positive interaction between economic development and expansion of employment, Zhang noted.
According to Zhang, efforts will be made to help enterprises stabilize jobs, drive employment by boosting dynamism in starting businesses, conduct extensive vocational skills training, intensify recruitment activities, and ensure people’s basic living needs are met.
The country will continue implementing policies on stabilizing and supporting employment for enterprises by ensuring that companies with few or no layoffs can take moreunemployment insurance premiums back, and granting companies which provide jobs for people having difficulties securing employment with subsidies for social insurance and loan interests, as well as tax reduction exemption.
The country will also intensify efforts to support key groups such as college graduates, people who look to change jobs, laid-off workers, and rural migrant workers to starting businesses, by putting into practice relevant policies on guaranteed start-up loans, rewards and subsidies for startup incubation bases, and subsidies for startups.
It will constantly press ahead with vocational education and training programs while giving priority to the training for enterprise employees, key groups, and impoverished labor force.
The country will hold intensive recruitment activities from October 21 to November 21.
Besides, from November to December, it will roll out such activities as employment service week for college graduates, special job fairs for centrally-administered state-owned enterprises and college graduates in northwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, Qinghai province, and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, fully starting the employment services for college students graduating in 2020.
China will carry out “one-on-one” targeted assistance for jobseekers facing difficulties in securing employment in an effort to help zero-employment families. The country has also pledged to give out unemployment insurance benefits in time to unemployed people that are underprivileged so as to ensure their basic living standards.
Staff members of a company in Shanggao county, Yichun city of east China’s Jiangxi province check the appearances of batteries which are about to be sold to various markets, Aug.9, 2019. (Photo by Zhou Liang/People’s Daily Online)
Workers cut and pack mushrooms in a poverty-relief workshop in Pengxi county, Suining city of southwest China’s Sichuan province, Oct.16, 2019. (Photo by Liu Changsong/People’s Daily Online)
Staff members of employment bureau of Xiajiang county of east China’s Jiangxi province show jobseekers facing difficulties in securing employment how to fill out form for application for social insurance subsidies, Sept. 12, 2019. (Photo by Zeng Shuangquan/People’s Daily Online)
中国前三季度基本完成全年就业目标
人民日报记者 李心萍
1097万人捧上新饭碗——中国就业再传好消息，1—9月份，全国城镇新增就业1097万人，基本完成全年目标任务，就业形势保持总体稳定。21日，人社部举行第三季度新闻发布会，介绍了中国就业等情况。
“四季度，我国就业形势将继续保持总体平稳，城镇新增就业有望提前超额完成，城镇登记失业率、城镇调查失业率预期低于控制目标。”人社部就业促进司司长张莹说。
良好的预期，源于前三季度打下的坚实基础。一句话概括，即措施有力就业稳。
1—9月，中国共有75万户企业享受到失业保险费返还275亿元，惠及职工3993万人，81万人次领取了职业提升技能补贴12.9亿元，“稳就业”政策持续发力。
指标稳。三季度，全国城镇登记失业率3.61%，同比下降0.21个百分点；9月份，全国城镇调查失业率为5.2%，低于5.5%的预期控制目标，核心指标保持在合理区间。
供求稳。三季度，100个城市公共就业服务机构市场求人倍率为1.24（即1.24个岗位对应1个求职者），市场运行基本平稳。
基础稳。1—9月就业困难人员实现就业133万人，超额完成全年130万人的目标任务；2019届高校毕业生目前就业水平与往年基本持平，重点群体就业保持稳定，为保持就业大局稳定打下坚实基础。
“就业形势总体稳定，为我国经济应对经济下行压力和外部冲击，提供了坚实的基础和较大的回旋空间。”中国人民大学副校长刘元春说。
张莹表示，下一步，人社部将继续突出就业优先政策导向，强化各方面重视就业、支持就业的导向，形成经济发展和扩大就业的良性循环。
——帮助企业稳定岗位。继续落实援企稳岗补贴政策，对不裁员、少裁员的参保企业加大失业保险稳岗返还力度，对吸纳就业困难人员的企业给予社保补贴、贷款贴息、税收减免。
——促进创业带动就业。加大对高校毕业生、转岗下岗失业人员、农民工等重点群体创业支持力度，落实创业担保贷款、创业孵化基地奖补、一次性创业补贴等扶持政策。
——大规模开展职业技能培训。持续推进职业技能提升行动，重点做好企业职工、重点群体、贫困劳动力等培训工作。
——密集开展招聘活动。10月21日至11月21日，启动金秋招聘月活动；11月下旬至12月，陆续推出高校毕业生就业服务周、中央企业面向西藏青海新疆高校毕业生专场招聘等活动，全面启动2020届毕业生的就业服务活动。
——兜牢民生底线。对就业困难人员开展“一对一”帮扶，确保零就业家庭动态清零；对生活困难的失业人员及时发放失业保险金，保障他们的基本生活。
2019年8月9日，江西省宜春市上高县格林德能源集团有限公司的工作人员在检查电池产品外观，准备销往各地市场。周亮/人民图片 2019年10月16日，四川省遂宁市蓬溪县琪英菌业扶贫车间内，工人正忙着进行削菇、包装等工序。 刘昌松/人民图片
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