On August 21, Shinan District in Qingdao held a press conference to unveil the "Several Measures for Promoting High-Quality and Full Employment in Shinan District" (the "Measures"). The Measures introduce six key action plans, comprising 19 specific measures across six areas: improving employment promotion mechanisms, enhancing vocational skills, supporting key groups, empowering employment through entrepreneurship, optimizing public employment services, and strengthening rights protection. This creates a comprehensive, full-chain, and all-encompassing employment framework to provide solid employment support for the region's high-quality development.
Industry Empowerment Expands Space, Activating a New Engine for Employment
The Measures prioritize "improving employment promotion mechanisms and driving employment through economic development." At the macro-policy level, they emphasize an economic development orientation that prioritizes employment, requiring high-quality and full employment to be a primary goal of economic and social development. In particular, they promote deep integration between the "1+6+1" modern industrial system and employment promotion, incorporating employment-generation capacity into industrial planning, project attraction, and policy formulation. This creates an integrated "industry, city, people, and employment" development model, building a micro-cycle that links employment with industry.
Additionally, the Measures specify cultivating new employment drivers by developing new quality productive forces tailored to local conditions, tapping into employment potential in emerging industries such as the digital economy, marine technology, life sciences, and new energy, as well as in characteristic service sectors including wellness, housekeeping, cultural tourism, and healthcare. They also actively explore creating high-quality and full employment zones and employment-friendly sub-districts.
The Measures explicitly propose strengthening entrepreneurship empowerment to drive employment through business creation. Specifically, this includes building an OPC entrepreneurship service ecosystem, establishing OPC entrepreneur service stations, promoting an "entrepreneurship as a one-stop personal matter" service, launching a mentoring program for OPC entrepreneurs, and building a team of mentors. It also involves conducting diversified entrepreneurship training, implementing policies such as entrepreneurship training support, improving entrepreneurship empowerment platforms, supporting the development of entrepreneurship-themed commercial streets, encouraging communities to establish community "micro-factories" for entrepreneurship, and launching "micro-entrepreneurship" projects. Furthermore, it promotes financial support for entrepreneurship, encouraging financial institutions to innovate and promote a "business loan plus commercial loan" model, supporting entrepreneurship incubation platforms, financial institutions, and universities in establishing "business loan stations" to enhance comprehensive financial service quality.
Skills Empowerment Strengthens Foundations, Building a Talent Pool
The Measures clearly state the implementation of a "vocational skills enhancement action" to address structural employment contradictions. On one front, they vigorously carry out vocational skills training and implement a lifelong vocational skills training system. This includes advancing the construction of artificial intelligence training bases, optimizing the structure of the skilled workforce, conducting in-depth "micro-skills" training, and holding vocational skills competitions with regional characteristics. On another front, they launch an "AI plus high-quality and full employment" initiative, exploring coordinated development between artificial intelligence and employment, supporting AI-related market entities and institutions in jointly building AI internship, practical training, and training bases, and promoting the deep application of AI technology in areas such as career guidance and supply-demand matching.
Targeted Support for Key Groups, Securing the Foundation of People's Livelihoods
Youth prosperity leads to urban prosperity, and employment for university graduates and other young people has always been a top priority in maintaining stable employment. The Measures specify continuously building internship and practical training platforms for young people, including university graduates, and exploring a range of youth employment internship positions. They also normalize career experience activities such as study tours for university graduates and implement "one person, one file" listed services for university graduates who are unemployed after leaving school.
The Measures propose promoting employment for disadvantaged groups, offering priority support and focused assistance to those facing employment difficulties, and ensuring that "zero-employment" households are dynamically cleared. They strengthen management services for registered unemployed individuals, promoting re-employment through services such as job placement and policy delivery. They also enhance the daily management of urban public welfare positions, continuously improving the institutionalization, standardization, and refinement of these positions.
Furthermore, the Measures make arrangements for employment for veterans, women, and people with disabilities. Examples include conducting education and training for veterans to promote their employment and entrepreneurship, optimizing the employment and entrepreneurship environment for women, and leveraging industries such as housekeeping to explore job opportunities suitable for women. They also continue implementing policies for proportional employment of people with disabilities.
Comprehensive Service Upgrades, Weaving a Dense Safety Net for Livelihoods
Employment services connect with every household. The Measures emphasize consolidating the foundation of public employment services and implementing a plan to improve public employment service capabilities. They aim to perfect the 15-minute employment service circle, integrate it with the 15-minute convenient living circle, and coordinate upgrades to temporary worker homes, temporary worker stations, and employment service stations. At the same time, they continue enriching public employment service resources, supporting various market entities in jointly building promotional classrooms and employment training centers with universities, vocational colleges, and technical schools, and encouraging and guiding social forces to participate in the construction, operation, and management of public employment service facilities.
In addition, the Measures focus on strengthening employment rights protection and creating an employment-friendly development environment. They propose continuously standardizing the human resources market order, safeguarding women's legitimate employment rights and interests, strengthening guidance for employers on labor practices, and purifying the market recruitment environment.
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