CCTV news (news broadcast): during the 13th Five Year Plan period, China's economic aggregate continued to grow, which led to the continuous expansion of employment scale, and the continuous introduction of employment policies to support the overall stability of the employment situation and the rapid growth of new forms and modes of employment.
During the 13th Five Year Plan period, from the implementation of a more active employment policy to placing the employment priority policy at the macro policy level, China has constantly innovated and enriched the policy toolbox to resolve the employment pressure under the complex and changeable situation.
In the past five years, the state has focused on supporting enterprises to stabilize their jobs, promote employment and Entrepreneurship of key groups, and support the development of new forms of employment. It has introduced a series of new policies and measures, such as reducing taxes and fees, returning stable jobs, subsidizing the skill upgrading of insured employees, and implementing actions to improve vocational skills. Since 2016, nearly 100 million workers have enjoyed various employment subsidy policies.
The steady policy supports the fact that over the past five years, the number of new urban employment in China has exceeded 60 million.
There is still a "one can't be less" support in the steady growth of employment. During the 13th Five Year Plan period, the state promoted employment poverty alleviation in an all-round way, and realized the dynamic liquidation of "zero employment" families. From 2016 to 2019, a total of 12.13 million poverty-stricken workers were helped to obtain employment. More than 90% of the poverty-stricken people who have been registered and registered have been supported by industry and employment, and more than two-thirds of them have been lifted out of poverty mainly by migrant workers and industries.