Shou Xiaoli:

Please continue with your questions. There are two more reporters raising their hands. We have our last two questions.

N Videos at Southern Metropolis Daily:

It's graduation season again. We have noticed that Gansu for consecutive years has issued policies to support college graduates in finding employment at the grassroots level and in enterprises. May I ask what other practical and effective actions have been taken in promoting employment? What are their results? Thank you.

Ren Zhenhe:

Thank you for your interest in our current employment efforts. Employment is the most basic component of the people's wellbeing. It is also a top priority of our work. Mr. Zhang Jingang is in charge of this work. I invite him to answer.

Zhang Jingang:

Thank you for your question. Employment is one of the most important tasks for the provincial Party committee and the provincial government. As Mr. Ren mentioned earlier, employment is the most basic component of the people's wellbeing, concerning the country's development and the people's life and happiness. In recent years, employment in Gansu has overall shown growing trends, with more than 300,000 new jobs created annually. This is an assured figure that can only increase and is not allowed to decrease. We have mainly done three aspects of work.

First, we have built platforms. That is, we have made every effort to stabilize and expand job positions, providing stages and platforms for entrepreneurship. In this regard, we have implemented an action plan to serve over 1,000 enterprises that have maintained job demand, providing support, such as financial assistance and services that protect their rights, to encourage them to offer more jobs. For example, the "Longyuan Employment Loan" service precisely guarantees financing needs of enterprises that create a number of jobs, maintain stable work positions and comply with employment regulations. It focuses on supporting the real economy and micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in order to stabilize and expand employment. In the past two years, it has issued loans to more than 2,400 enterprises, totaling nearly 5 billion yuan.

Second, we have built bridges between jobseekers and enterprises. We take various measures to "build bridges and pave roads" in order to better match job supply and demand. In this regard, except for carrying out traditional activities, such as vocational skills training, entrepreneurship and innovation competitions, we have also explored some distinctive events based on our own conditions. For example, since 2022 we have launched livestream events, inviting over 430 officials from human resources and social security departments to interpret policies and promote jobs. Such efforts have provided nearly 2 million job opportunities.

Another aspect is that we have expanded employment channels. We make every effort to stabilize and expand employment among key groups, hence promoting overall, high-quality, and sufficient employment. For example, in terms of graduate employment, we support 10,000 unemployed graduates to find employment at the grassroots level each year, which has been one of our top 10 tasks to improve the people's wellbeing for 15 consecutive years. Our efforts aim to guide them to work at the grassroots level and in enterprises. For those who have been lifted out of poverty, we have enabled them to find employment near their homes — in rural factories or through public welfare employment programs.

Next, we will make greater efforts to carry out our employment priority strategy, fully implement policies to reduce burdens, stabilize jobs and expand employment, enhance the role of industries to drive employment, and expand employment channels. We will continuously promote employment among key groups, and work to address labor shortages in certain sectors in order to better meet employment market demands. We will ensure that those who need jobs can find them, make it easier for enterprises to recruit workers, and continuously enhance citizens' sense of fulfillment, happiness, and security.

Thank you.