According to China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency, China’s Deputy Prime Minister Ding Xiexiang made the request the day before in Beijing at a video conference for youth employment and start-up work, including university graduates nationwide.
“Promoting young people’s employment, including college graduates, is not only a family affair, but also a national affair, and an important task that values politics, protects people’s livelihoods, and promotes development,” Ding said.
“We need to promote high-quality and sufficient employment of young people, including college graduates, with more active attitudes, practical ethos, and strong measures,” he said. “We need to do our best to stabilize and expand the employment scale of college graduates, and closely combine physical and human investments to inject new momentum and vitality into high-quality development.”
“We need to stick to our employment-first orientation and support corporate job security and expansion more strongly,” he said. “We need to stabilize policy-based job recruitment and develop more new jobs by comprehensively adjusting resources such as policies, quotas, and projects.”
“We need to properly expand the scale of recruitment of base projects to encourage more graduates to take root in the front line and grow,” he said. “We need to promote start-ups to drive employment by strengthening support for start-up policies and service guarantees.”
In addition, Deputy Prime Minister Ding also asked for personalized support, strengthening practical training, and personalized support.
Representatives from Beijing-based universities, local government officials, and university graduates, as well as government-related departments, participated in the meeting.
SALLY LEE
US ASIA JOURNAL
