Author: Yang Weili.
The annual National People's Congress and the National People's Congress are about to be held. Recently, the Social Survey Center of China Youth Daily conducted a survey on the expectations of the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress in conjunction with the questionnaire network, with a total of 2,002 people participating. According to the survey, 781% of the respondents will participate in the discussion of the topics of the two sessions this year, employment and entrepreneurship (486%) were the most anticipated topics of the respondents, and education (481%), medical (465%), housing (460%), pension (454%) are also a common concern of respondents. The newly released survey report on the expectations of the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress is not only an intuitive window to observe the times and see through the society, but also a contemporary expression of the people's aspirations and desires, and is full of the people's expectations.
In recent years, deputies to the people's congresses and members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at all levels have been concerned about development and people's livelihood, gathering public opinion, gathering strength, and actively speaking for the masses. The opinions and suggestions put forward by them have provided valuable ideas and important references for decision-making at all levels, effectively promoted the solution of a series of problems related to reform and development and the people's urgency, difficulties and expectations, and made important contributions to promoting high-quality economic development, ensuring and improving people's livelihood, and fully demonstrated the responsibility and good style of people's congress deputies and CPPCC members in the new era.
Take "improving the youth employment mechanism and promoting high-quality and full employment" as an example. In 2023, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security will undertake a total of 962 proposals from representatives and members, covering employment and entrepreneurship, social security, talent and personnel, labor relations and many other aspects. The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said: "These suggestions and proposals condense the wisdom and hard work of the deputies and members, and are of great value to do a good job in human resources and social security." The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security has made overall plans and integrated plans for the handling of proposals and business work, fully listened to the opinions and suggestions of the deputies and members, actively adopted the insights of the deputies and members, and introduced more than 40 policies and measures, effectively promoting the continuous optimization and adjustment of policies and measures to stabilize employment, and promoting high-quality and full employment, and achieved remarkable results.
There is no end to protecting and improving people's livelihood, only a continuous starting point. Employment is the foundation of people's livelihood, entrepreneurship is the source of employment, and the employment of key groups such as college graduates, migrant workers, especially those who have been lifted out of poverty, and people in difficulty in urban areas is the top priority of employment work. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Education, the number of ordinary college graduates in the country in 2024 is expected to reach 11.79 million, an increase of 210,000 year-on-year. This year's employment work is arduous, with heavy responsibilities and glorious missions.
The key to promoting high-quality and full employment lies in making the economic "cake" bigger and achieving high-quality and full employment in the process of high-quality development. Therefore, it is expected that the deputies and members will put forward more forward-looking and constructive suggestions on how to promote the development of the service industry, small and micro enterprises, and individual industrial and commercial households, and promote the stabilization and expansion of posts at the two sessions. Especially with the rapid development of the digital economy, we should make good suggestions, offer good strategies and practical measures on how to escort new business formats and promote entrepreneurship and employment, and promote the in-depth implementation of the employment priority strategy and active employment policies, so that more people can have jobs and dreams.
To promote high-quality and full employment, it is also necessary to improve the quality of employment. In the above-mentioned survey of the expectations of the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress, for the proposals that respondents expect the representatives and members to pay attention to, "strengthening the protection of workers' rights and interests and allowing more young people to benefit from the construction of a youth development city" ranked first, with a selection rate of 497%。This also means that the public expects the deputies and committee members to actively contribute ideas and suggestions on how to improve the system of protecting the rights and interests of workers, improve labor safety and health conditions, establish and improve the working mechanism for helping people in difficulty, and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of employment groups such as couriers, online contract workers, and truck drivers, so as to promote the improvement of the labor rights and interests protection system and measures, and form a virtuous circle of economic growth and employment expansion and quality improvement.
Looking forward to the upcoming "spring event", more "good voices" of people's livelihood - the continuous optimization and improvement of people's livelihood policies, will find the greatest common divisor and draw the largest concentric circles from the insights of the representatives and members, and constantly transform the opinions and suggestions of the representatives and members into actual work performance and policy effectiveness, form a good situation of opinions and suggestions and high-quality two-way running, and hold up the stable happiness of the people. (Yang Weili).
*: Beijing Youth Daily.