A city-wide conference on human resources and social security was recently convened, outlining the comprehensive work plan for 2026. This year, the municipality will implement multiple measures to attract workers in industries with urgent needs and sectors critical to people's livelihoods to seek employment in Beijing. It will formulate a series of measures to be friendly towards new employment groups, issue guidelines on employment absorption in the platform economy, and encourage and support flexible workers and those in new forms of employment to participate in employee insurance programs. In 2025, human resources and social security departments at all levels resolutely implemented the decisions of the Party Central Committee and the work requirements of the municipal party committee and government, successfully concluding the 14th Five-Year Plan period. The city added 330,000 new urban jobs; the average urban surveyed unemployment rate was 4.1%, maintaining the best level nationwide; throughout the year, employment assistance was provided to 72,000 individuals facing difficulties, and 37,000 rural laborers were promoted to employment and social insurance coverage. Breakthroughs were made in multiple areas of social security system reform. The gradual postponement of the legal retirement age was implemented steadily, and various social security benefit levels were increased progressively. The pilot program for occupational injury protection was expanded in an orderly manner, pioneering the nationwide inclusion of the entire ride-hailing industry within its coverage and innovatively introducing a "quick compensation for minor injuries" mechanism; this "new occupational injury" program has now cumulatively covered 1.65 million people. A total of 8.2 million people in the city have applied for the third-generation social security card, strengthening the social security safety net.
For 2026, Beijing's human resources and social security departments will focus on eight key areas: deepening the coordinated development, joint construction, and sharing of human resources and social security in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region; concentrating efforts on building a high-quality, fully employed model district; implementing the "Skills Illuminate the Future" training initiative; strengthening the development and utilization of human resources; accelerating the improvement of the social security system; refining the wage and income distribution system; establishing and improving the labor rights protection system; and continuously enhancing the high-quality supply of human resources and social security services. The departments will persistently expand the scope of "same business, same standards" for social security in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and strengthen the interoperability of social security services across the three areas. They will expand the application scenarios of the social security card, such as for intercity railways. By interconnecting the social security handling systems of Tongzhou, Wuqing, and Langfang, they aim to achieve cross-regional acceptance of high-frequency social security services. Multiple measures will be taken to attract personnel in industrially urgent and民生紧缺 fields to work in Beijing, formulate several measures friendly to new employment groups, issue guidelines on employment absorption in the platform economy, and promote solutions to the needs of those coming to Beijing for work, such as "a bed, a room". A special action for stabilizing, expanding, and improving job positions will be launched. Support will be provided for enterprises to stabilize and expand posts, deeply tapping the job creation potential in sectors like the first-store economy, night-time economy, silver economy, and ice-snow economy, with the annual target of developing 450,000 various types of employment positions. The employment public service system will be健全. In-depth, tiered, and classified employment services will be carried out, basic standards for employment public services will be formulated, 100 new "doorstep" employment service stations will be established, and a "15-minute employment service circle" will be constructed. The standardized construction of casual labor markets will be advanced, "service windows for new forms of employment" will be set up to provide "one-stop" services like policy consultation and employment guidance. The "Beijing Housekeeping" skills brand will be promoted for quality and efficiency enhancement. Special vocational ability standards and training courses will be developed for medical companionship, home organization, home bathing assistance, etc., with an annual target of training and evaluating 15,000 housekeeping service personnel. Thirty housekeeping enterprises will be promoted to achieve employee certification and service with visible credentials. Solid results will be pursued for key reforms such as the gradual postponement of retirement and the individual pension system. Flexible workers and those in new forms of employment will be encouraged and supported to participate in employee insurance to increase the coverage rate. The coverage of enterprise annuities will be expanded, and the individual pension system will be implemented steadily. The pilot for occupational injury protection will be expanded gradually, and the "quick compensation for minor injuries" mechanism will be fully implemented.
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