Shanxi Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security released the "15th Five-Year Plan" employment plan, focusing on high-quality full employment and assistance to key groups
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Shanxi Province is planning an employment development strategy during the “15th Five-Year Plan” period, aiming to solve structural employment conflicts through industrial linkage and policy coordination.
China News Service, Taiyuan, September 9 (Yang Jing, Li Jinyang) "The number of new urban jobs in Shanxi Province during the '15th Five-Year Plan' will reach a total of 2 million." Lei Jiankun, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Shanxi Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security, said on the 9th at a series of themed press conferences on the start of the "15th Five-Year Plan" organized by the Propaganda Department of the Shanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Information Office of the Shanxi Provincial People's Government.
During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Shanxi will aim at high-quality and full employment, adhere to the priority orientation of employment, improve the large-scale employment work pattern of policy coordination and industrial linkage, strive to solve structural employment contradictions, and continuously promote the effective improvement of the quality of employment and the reasonable growth of quantity.
Lei Jiankun introduced that Shanxi will focus on four aspects: building an employment-friendly development model, strengthening employment assistance for key groups, strengthening skills training, and optimizing the supply of employment services, so as to stabilize the basic employment market.
Shanxi will promote various departments at all levels to establish the broad employment concept of "managing industries must manage employment, promoting consumption must promote employment, and launching projects must expand employment", forming an employment-friendly development model that combines departmental coordination, regional linkage, government and enterprise efforts, and joint answers to the same questions. Focusing on forward-looking layouts such as the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and the cultivation and growth of emerging industries. Promote actions to stabilize jobs, expand capacity and improve quality.
For key groups, Shanxi has always given top priority to the employment of youth groups such as college graduates, expanded grassroots positions and employment channels for small, medium and micro enterprises, etc., and provided "1131" real-name services (at least 1 policy promotion, 1 career guidance, 3 job recommendations, 1 training or internship opportunity) to unemployed graduates who have left school.
At the same time, Shanxi insists on paying equal attention to migrant workers and local and nearby employment, deepens labor cooperation, cultivates characteristic labor brands, and provides regular employment assistance to prevent people from returning to poverty. Improve the dynamic identification mechanism for people with employment difficulties to ensure that zero-employment households are dynamically cleared.
In terms of skills training, Shanxi will implement the vocational skills training action of "Everyone can excel in all walks of life", closely following industrial upgrading and enterprise employment needs, including artificial intelligence and other new occupations and new job skills into the training scope, and improving the adaptability of training and industrial development.
In addition, Shanxi will create a "15-minute" employment service circle, carry out special recruitment and "small but beautiful" special recruitment on a regular basis, implement live broadcasts and remote interviews, strengthen the entrepreneurial support system, and rectify illegal employment agencies, employment discrimination and other issues in accordance with the law to create a fair and orderly employment environment.
"During the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, Shanxi will continue to improve the public employment service system and promote the accurate matching of human resources supply and demand. It will keep a close eye on key groups such as college graduates, migrant workers, and people with employment difficulties, continue to expand the employment capacity of key industries, and promote the re-employment of 750,000 urban unemployed people and the employment of 125,000 people with employment difficulties." Lei Jiankun said.
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