Employment is the most basic livelihood. How can youth employment be promoted? How to solve the structural employment contradiction? How to safeguard the rights and interests of workers in flexible employment and new forms of employment? At the "Promoting High Quality Development" series of themed press conferences held by the State Council Information Office on the 24th, relevant officials from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security responded to relevant hot issues. The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China clearly proposed to "improve the mechanism for promoting high-quality and full employment" and "improve the employment support system for key groups such as college graduates, migrant workers, and retired soldiers" by taking multiple measures to promote employment. Li Zhong, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, stated that the employment priority strategy will be implemented, the employment priority policy will be strengthened, and the deepening of employment system and mechanism reform will be the driving force to continuously promote the effective improvement of employment quality and reasonable growth of quantity. How to improve the employment support system for key groups and promote the employment of young people and migrant workers? Song Xin, the head of the Employment Promotion Department of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, stated that promoting the employment of young people such as college graduates has always been a top priority. Next, the human resources and social security department will take the action of tackling employment services for unemployed graduates as the starting point, and continue to make efforts in policy implementation, recruitment docking, and capacity improvement. He stated that a real name work ledger will be established around fresh unemployed graduates, registered unemployed youth, etc., to provide centralized services for them. At the same time, paired assistance will be provided to low-income families, poverty-stricken families, disabled graduates, and long-term unemployed youth. Recently, we have launched a special autumn recruitment event for college graduates in large and medium-sized cities in 2024. After the National Day holiday, we will also organize special services such as the Golden Autumn Recruitment Month. Various regions will also carry out a number of specialized, industry-specific, and regional recruitment activities Song Xin said. Promoting the employment and income increase of migrant workers is of great significance. At present, there are about 300 million migrant workers in China, including 190 million migrant workers who go out to work. Song Xin introduced that we will actively promote the coordinated employment of urban and rural areas, further improve the employment support system for migrant workers, and focus on four aspects: improving the mechanism for migrant workers, expanding nearby employment channels, encouraging entrepreneurship and income increase in returning home, and strengthening priority employment assistance. Cracking the structural employment contradiction and expanding new employment space. In recent years, the job market has had a strong demand for skilled talents. Strengthening the cultivation of skilled talents is an important way to solve the structural employment contradiction of "having work but no one to do it, and having people but no work to do it". The next step will focus on skill enhancement and improve the lifelong vocational skills training system. Focusing on key areas such as digital economy and green economy, as well as key industries such as health care and elderly care, we will closely monitor the shortage of new driving forces and new vocational skills talents, and guide workers to actively participate in vocational skills training Li Zhong said. Li Zhong introduced that the next step will be to highlight the role of enterprises as the main body and promote the development of skilled enterprises; Highlighting the integration of engineering and high-quality development of characteristic vocational education; Highlight mechanism innovation, smooth the development channel of skilled talents, deeply implement the "New Eight level Worker" vocational skill level system, and study and promote the expansion of the career development of high skilled talents and professional and technical talents. Salary is the key to changing the mindset of valuing education over skills and enhancing the attractiveness of skilled positions. Li Zhong stated that emphasis will be placed on incentive guarantees, dynamic release of salary price information for skilled talents, research and establishment of a reference guide for the classification of minimum wages for skilled talents, and guidance for enterprises to gradually improve the treatment of skilled talents. With the rapid development of new industries, new formats, and new models, new professions have become a new choice for many workers. How to actively explore and cultivate new occupational sequences, and expand the employment space for workers? Lu Aihong, Director of the Policy Research Department of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, said, "We will focus on developing new quality productive forces, serving the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, cultivating and strengthening emerging industries, and constructing future industrial layouts. We will continue to dynamically adjust the occupational classification system, and collect and release a batch of new occupational information every year. At the same time, we will accelerate the development of new occupational standards and training basic resources, and vigorously promote the ability improvement of new occupational practitioners. Strengthening the protection of workers' rights and interests in flexible employment and new forms of employment is an important employment 'reservoir'. How to strengthen the protection of the rights and interests of relevant workers, and further promote decent work and high-quality employment for workers? Lu Aihong stated that she will continue to improve the quality of employment services, implement policies and measures to support flexible employment through multiple channels, and strengthen the standardization of the gig market; Strengthen enterprise employment guidance, enhance legal policy publicity, administrative guidance and supervision on employment; Optimize and improve the social insurance system, and expand the pilot scope of occupational injury protection for new forms of employment; Smooth the channels for mediating labor disputes. Social security is the safety net for people's lives and the stabilizer for social operation. How to deepen the reform in the field of social security in the next step? Li Zhong introduced that the focus will be on five aspects of work: firstly, enhancing sustainability and consolidating the institutional foundation for stable operation. Further improve the national pooling of basic pension insurance for enterprise employees, study policy measures to expand the coverage of the pension system, promote the personal pension system nationwide, expand the scale of market-oriented investment and operation of funds, and improve the social security fund preservation and appreciation system. The second is to enhance accessibility and continuously expand the coverage of social insurance. We will improve the social security system for people with flexible employment, migrant workers, and new forms of employment, implement the policy of liberalizing the registered residence registration restrictions for people with flexible employment, and include more people in the coverage. The third is to enhance security and improve the fund security supervision system. Strengthen the full chain supervision of fund operation and resolutely safeguard the "pension money" and "emergency funds" of the people. The fourth is to enhance convenience and continuously optimize the handling management service system. The fifth is to enhance standardization and strengthen the construction of the rule of law. Intensify the implementation of existing laws and regulations, and timely improve supporting policies and implementation rules. (New Society)