Employment is the most basic livelihood of the people. College graduates are a valuable human resource for the country. In July this year, the Politburo meeting of the Communist Party of China mentioned that it is necessary to increase the protection of people's livelihood and raise the stabilization of employment to a strategic height. Last week, several important research activities and working meetings were related to the employment of college graduates.
From December 4 to 5, State Councilor Chen Yiqin pointed out that it is necessary to continuously optimize employment and entrepreneurship services, increase vocational skills training, and earnestly grasp the employment of key groups such as college graduates, retired soldiers, and migrant workers.
Earlier, in June this year, Chen Yiqin investigated the employment of college graduates and other youth in Sichuan and Hubei, and held a symposium on representatives of some enterprises, service organizations, universities, teachers and students. Looking back at the time nodes and related expressions of the two research activities, it is worth pondering. The meeting in June emphasized "seizing the critical period before college graduates leave school", and the survey in December emphasized that "according to the characteristics of the employment situation at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, we should strengthen the priority orientation of employment, implement detailed employment support policies, and support enterprises to stabilize and expand jobs".
The critical period before leaving school" and "the characteristics of the employment situation at the end of the year and the beginning of the year", such a time-targeted expression, shows that fully doing a good job in employment at a special node will have the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort.
Also last week, on December 5, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security held the 2024 National Conference on Employment and Entrepreneurship of College Graduates, and comprehensively deployed the employment and entrepreneurship of 2024 college graduates.
It is worth noting that the meeting specifically pointed out that colleges and universities in all localities should further improve their political positions, put the promotion of high-quality and full employment of college graduates at the strategic height of the construction of an educational power, take the employment of college graduates as an important starting point to promote the reform of educational evaluation, take the optimization of employment services for college graduates as a major task of building a high-quality and balanced basic public education service system, and take ensuring the overall stability of the employment of college graduates as the top priority of stabilizing employment.
The expression of these "four handles" is very unusual. It comprehensively and profoundly explains the important position of doing a good job in the employment of college graduates in the four levels of "building a strong country in education", "promoting the reform of educational evaluation", "building a high-quality and balanced basic public education service system" and "stabilizing employment". This fully shows that to do a good job in the employment of college graduates, we must look at the overall situation and use systematic thinking to look at it.
At the same time, the meeting revealed that the number of college graduates in 2024 is expected to be 11.79 million, an increase of 210,000 year-on-year. In the face of such a scale of college graduates, all localities and departments should accurately grasp the current situation facing the employment of college graduates, focus on key links, and take multiple measures to promote fuller and higher-quality employment of college graduates in 2024, ensure that valuable human resources are fully utilized, and provide a steady stream of talent support for high-quality economic and social development.
Author: Gao Yizhe, a reporter from this newspaper).