Original Title: Li Keqiang Hosts the Executive Meeting of the State Council
Deploying policies and measures to stabilize and expand employment to ensure overall stability of employment
Require multiple measures to expand consumption and determine measures to support green and intelligent home appliance consumption
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 13 (Xinhua) – Premier Li Keqiang chaired an executive meeting of the State Council on July 13 to deploy policies and measures to stabilize and expand employment, ensuring overall stability of employment; Require multiple measures to expand consumption and determine measures to support the consumption of green smart home appliances.
The meeting pointed out that employment is a top priority for people’s livelihood and an important support for stabilizing the overall economy. Only with employment can wealth be created, income increased, and consumption and economic growth driven. Since the beginning of this year, various departments in various regions have implemented the deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, increased efforts to implement various policies to stabilize employment, and the employment situation in June has improved compared to April and May. However, the task of stabilizing employment remains arduous. We must prioritize employment, promote employment through development, and support economic recovery and stable development through stable employment. One is to continue to stabilize employment by ensuring market entities. Continuously implement policies to assist enterprises and alleviate difficulties, break through implementation barriers, and package social insurance premiums, stable job returns, and employment subsidies. The second is to increase employment opportunities through more market-oriented and socialized methods. Support entrepreneurship to bring employment, and continue to issue up to 200000 yuan of entrepreneurship guarantee loans to eligible start-ups and individual businesses, with interest subsidies provided by the government. Local governments need to allocate funds to help incubation bases reduce costs such as rental fees for start-ups. The third is to focus on the employment of key groups such as college graduates and migrant workers. Implement the established policy of expanding employment channels for graduates. Accelerate the resumption of offline recruitment. Introduce policies to support the service outsourcing industry in attracting graduates. Provide continuous online assistance services for unemployed graduates with “one person, one policy”. Implement work as a means of relief. Ensure that at least one person from a zero employment family is employed as soon as possible. The fourth is to ensure equal employment rights for workers. It is strictly prohibited to discriminate against the rehabilitated who have been tested positive for COVID-19 nucleic acid in employment. Relevant departments should strengthen labor security supervision and deal seriously with such discrimination once discovered. Fifth, local governments should assume the main responsibility of stabilizing employment and ensure the achievement of employment goals. Timely report and supervise local employment work.
The meeting pointed out that China has over 200 million flexible employment personnel. Flexible employment can effectively promote employment and also stimulate market vitality and social creativity. It is necessary to strengthen guarantees and services. One is to allow flexible employment personnel to participate in basic pension and medical insurance for employees in their place of employment, relying on the national unified platform for insurance registration, and improving the convenience of social security payment, transfer and continuation, and long-distance medical treatment. For college graduates, employment difficulties, and other individuals engaged in flexible employment, social security subsidies will be provided according to regulations. The second is to protect the legitimate rights and interests of flexible employment personnel in accordance with the law, seriously investigate and deal with issues such as evading the responsibility of the employer and defaulting on wages, and implement pilot programs for occupational injury protection. Thirdly, accelerate the market for odd jobs.Build and promote public employment service institutions to provide free supply and demand docking for odd jobs; Provide training subsidies and living allowances during the training period for eligible flexible employment personnel.
The meeting pointed out that consumption is the ultimate demand, and expanding consumption is not only beneficial for improving people’s living standards, but also can drive employment, investment, and industrial upgrading. We should focus on using market-oriented and sustainable methods to expand consumption, better play the main driving role of consumption in economic growth, and meet the needs of the masses. We need to accelerate the release of the potential for green smart home appliance consumption. One is to carry out the nationwide exchange of old household appliances for new ones and the relocation of household appliances to rural areas, encouraging eligible places to provide financial and policy support. In implementation, we need to maintain a unified and open national market and ensure fair competition. The second is to improve the standards for green smart home appliances and promote the standardization of full chain services such as installation and maintenance. The third is to support the development of recycling and utilization of waste household appliances, comprehensively implement the gigabit fiber optic network project, accelerate the transformation of old urban residential areas, consolidate and improve rural power grids, and provide support for expanding household appliance consumption.
The meeting discussed other matters.