Affected by the new round of epidemic and unexpected changes in the international situation, the downward pressure on the economy has further increased, and the newly added employment population this year has reached a record high. The challenge of stabilizing employment is unprecedented.
On May 16, data released by the National Bureau of Statistics showed that from January to April this year, 4.06 million new jobs were created in cities and towns across the country, and the national average urban surveyed unemployment rate was 5.7%. In April, the national urban surveyed unemployment rate was 6.1%, an increase of 0.3 percentage points from the previous month. The surveyed unemployment rate of the local population with household registration is 5.7%; the surveyed unemployment rate of the migrant population is 6.9%, of which the surveyed unemployment rate of the migrant population with agricultural household registration is 6.6%. The survey unemployment rates for people aged 16-24 and 25-59 are 18.2% and 5.3% respectively. The surveyed urban unemployment rate in 31 large cities is 6.7%.
Employment is the most important livelihood concern. Stabilizing employment not only benefits the production side, but also supports the demand side. Behind the tens of thousands of employees are thousands of families, which reflects the economic deployment of macro policies and people’s livelihood considerations. In the more than two years since the COVID-19 outbreak broke out, for many business entities, the most common feeling can be distilled into one word: “difficulty.”
Premier Li Keqiang chaired an executive meeting of the State Council on May 11, requiring fiscal and monetary policies to be oriented toward giving priority to employment and stabilize the economy. He said that fiscal and monetary policies should be oriented towards giving priority to employment. Tax refunds, postponement of social security fees, and reduction of financing costs are all aimed at stabilizing market entities, stabilizing jobs and stabilizing employment, so as to protect basic people’s livelihood, stabilize growth, and promote consumption. It is necessary to further use a variety of policy tools to mobilize local enthusiasm and consolidate responsibilities to effectively stabilize jobs and employment.
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Under the epidemic, the textile industry demonstrates its employment capacity
The textile industry is a pillar industry for my country’s national economy and social development. The textile industry directly employs more than 20 million people and is an important force in stabilizing employment in our country. At the same time, the textile industry is deeply related to the primary, secondary and tertiary industries, and also has a strong employment-promoting effect and industrial scalability.
Sun Ruizhe, President of the China Textile Industry Federation, once said that it is necessary to strengthen the employment priority orientation, give full play to the long and multi-layered characteristics of the textile and clothing industry chain, and ensure Small and medium-sized enterprises in the industry develop steadily and healthily, transforming the ecological diversity of the industry into greater employment capacity.
On April 19, the first weaving workshop of the Hengyang project of Tongkun Group, located in the Yangtze River Delta region, was officially put into production. This also marked a new breakthrough in the development model of Tongkun’s entire industry chain, successfully realizing the transformation from ” A drop of oil” to a “piece of cloth”! The Hengyang project is not only an important development strategy for Tongkun to lay out the “14th Five-Year Plan”, continue to extend to the middle and lower reaches of the industrial chain, and achieve “one piece of cloth”, but also the group’s response to national policies and actively integrate into the “new international and domestic dual cycle development pattern” ” is an important measure that has positive significance in promoting the highquality development of the textile economy in Shuyang, Suqian and northern Jiangsu.
The project is located in Shuyang Lingang Industrial Park, with a total investment of approximately 15 billion yuan and a planned land area of 4,200 acres. It will form an annual production capacity of 2.4 million tons of filament (short fiber), build 500 texturing machines, 10,000 The Taiwan loom, supporting dyeing and finishing and public thermal energy center projects are expected to directly create employment for nearly 10,000 people in the future.
Awati County in Xinjiang, far in the northwest, has also vigorously developed the entire cotton textile industry chain in recent years. While promoting economic development, it has also effectively stimulated local employment. More and more farmers are becoming industrial workers and earning stable incomes. On April 25, in the production workshop of Xinjiang Shunxin Textile Co., Ltd. in the Cotton Textile Manufacturing Industrial Park of Awati County, machines roared and workers performed their duties and were busy rushing to produce a batch of orders. The scene was a busy scene.
Xinjiang Shunxin Textile Co., Ltd. is one of Shaoxing City’s key industrial aid projects to Xinjiang. Since the company settled in Awati County and started production in October 2021, it has continued to increase investment in equipment installation and production capacity scale. At present, the daily production of gray cloth reaches 80,000 meters, and the gray cloth is sold to Zhejiang, Guangzhou, Jiangsu and other provinces.
The reporter learned that there are currently 39 textile and garment enterprises in Awati County, including 9 enterprises above designated size. They have built 698,000 spinning spindles, 1,500 looms, and an annual output of 6.1 million pieces of clothing. With an industrial scale of 150 million meters, the entire textile and clothing industry has created a total of more than 4,000 surplus laborers.
Fujian Province, located in the coastal area of South China, has always been the main force in the textile industry. Amid the epidemic, they have also been making their own efforts to stabilize employment. “We did not stop work during the epidemic.” Cai Qinglai, president of Xintai Group, said that the company had prepared for rainy days and prepared raw materials and auxiliary materials that could last more than a month. After the epidemic, more than 1,000 workers lived in the factory in a closed loop. While implementing various epidemic prevention requirements, Production started under the premise and maintained about 80% of production capacity during the epidemic.
Lin Yonghong, director of the Jinjiang Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, said that currently 100% of the city’s regulated enterprises have resumed work, and industrial electricity consumption has exceeded the level of the same period last year.
In order to help small and medium-sized enterprises reduce the cost of raw materials, governments and enterprises in Jinjiang, Changle and other places have worked together to build a centralized procurement platform. Gao Yong, the person in charge of Changle’s “Auxiliary Cloth Division” platform, said that the platform can centrally purchase yarn for lace factories and provide “one-click search for underwear factories through artificial intelligence and other technologies.””Border”. There was an underwear factory that “joined orders” on the platform and purchased across regions, reducing costs by about 15%.
“After decades of accumulation, China’s textile, footwear and apparel industry has formed a complete industrial chain including chemicals, fabrics, weaving, accessories, and manufacturing. Industrial Clusters have obvious advantages. This is our confidence to face challenges.” Cai Qing said.
The resumption of work and production of leading enterprises has also led to the recovery of upstream and downstream small and medium-sized enterprises. Jinjiang Yinglin Town is an important export town for Chinese swimwear. In recent years, affected by the epidemic at home and abroad, overseas orders have decreased. Under the guidance of the local party committee and government, leading companies such as Anta have cooperated with Yinglin Swimwear Company to help it expand the domestic market through brand licensing, OEM, joint ventures, etc., and stabilized more than 50,000 upstream and downstream jobs.
Not only is the demand for front-line workers, in recent years, with the acceleration of industrial upgrading, the textile industry’s demand for technical and creative talents has been increasing. Judging from the current development trend, the textile industry will definitely be a technology-intensive industry in the future, using intelligence to liberate human hands and feet, and using automation and big data to improve machine operating efficiency.
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The country releases a strong signal to stabilize the basic employment situation
At present, to effectively stabilize employment is to seize the opportunity to stabilize growth. In the future, it is necessary to further use a variety of policy tools to mobilize the enthusiasm of all parties, consolidate responsibilities, and effectively stabilize jobs and employment. Recently, policies to stabilize employment have been introduced intensively, sending a strong signal that the fundamentals of employment must be stabilized.
Recently, relevant departments have been intensively deploying a series of relief measures to stabilize market entities and stabilize employment. More than 3 billion yuan of job stabilization funds have been directed to enterprises, and 450 billion yuan of dividends from the new unemployment insurance policy are on the way. A package of measures including tax refunds and reductions, postponement of social insurance premiums, and refunds for job stabilization are being implemented rapidly in many places, urging early results and early benefits.
The national video and telephone conference on stabilizing employment held on May 7 emphasized the need to focus on supporting job stabilization, promoting enterprises to resume work and reach production under the conditions of epidemic prevention and control, and accelerating the implementation of tax rebates, tax reductions and fee reductions and other burden-reducing relief policies. , to help as many market entities as possible, especially small, medium and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households, overcome difficulties and retain their jobs. Promote the healthy development of the platform economy and create more jobs.
The executive meetings of the State Council have made specific arrangements for increasing efforts to stabilize jobs and promote employment on many occasions, emphasizing that “measures such as tax refunds and reductions, postponement of social security fees, and reduction of financing costs are all aimed at stabilizing market entities, stabilizing jobs, and stabilizing employment.” We will further study and use a variety of policy tools to mobilize local enthusiasm and consolidate responsibilities to effectively stabilize jobs and employment.”
Relevant departments such as the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Finance, and the State Administration of Taxation also acted quickly, from launching a large-scale VAT refund policy at the end of the period to introducing unemployment insurance and a package of measures to stabilize jobs and improve skills to prevent unemployment, and then to clarify the extremely difficult industries. The policy of delaying the payment of corporate social insurance premiums has been implemented in stages, and a package of measures to benefit enterprises has been accelerated, and the policy effects have been gradually released.
Solving the employment difficulties is also inseparable from unblocking the industrial and supply chain congestion points. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, the global industrial and supply chains have faced great challenges. The epidemic has caused factories in some areas to be unable to operate, insufficient global production capacity, frustrated transportation capabilities, and low inventories downstream in the supply chain, resulting in supply shortages. The skyrocketing prices of some international commodities last year seriously disrupted the global production and living order. Now we can unblock the blockages, solve the difficulties, and stabilize the enterprise, which will also stabilize the development.
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