Recently, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Finance and the People’s Bank of China jointly issued the Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Employment and Entrepreneurship of College Graduates under the Current Situation (hereinafter referred to as the Notice), requiring all localities to implement the employment priority policy, take the employment of college graduates as the top priority, and thoroughly implement the employment and entrepreneurship promotion plan and grassroots growth plan for college graduates to ensure the overall stability of the employment level and the basically stable employment situation.
The Notice puts forward four policy measures. First, actively expand the field of employment. Support multi-channel employment, and the grassroots service project personnel who have expired and passed the examination in grassroots units below the county level in hard and remote areas can be hired to the township institutions where they serve through direct inspection; For small and micro enterprises to absorb the employment of unemployed college graduates within 2 years after leaving school and flexible employment of unemployed college graduates within 2 years after leaving school, social insurance subsidies will be given according to regulations. Encourage entrepreneurship to promote employment, strengthen innovation and entrepreneurship education, extend entrepreneurship training to the campus, relax the application conditions for business guarantee loans, and support college graduates to return to their hometowns to start businesses and innovate.
The second is to vigorously strengthen employment services. We will organize graduates to visit public employment and entrepreneurship service institutions, enterprises and entrepreneurship parks into the practice of employment guidance courses, and establish a system in which vocational instructors contact graduating classes. Organize campus recruitment activities in different levels, categories and industries, and generally push the policy list, service list and service organization contact list to graduates. We will fully integrate returned overseas students and young people from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan into the public employment talent service system and provide employment and entrepreneurship services equally. Support human resources service institutions to provide public employment and entrepreneurship services for college graduates. College graduates with training needs will be included in the vocational skills upgrading action, and students in vocational colleges and applied undergraduate colleges will be encouraged to obtain multiple vocational skills level certificates while obtaining academic certificates.
The third is to strengthen the protection of employment rights and interests. The provincial capital and the following cities have fully liberalized the restrictions on the settlement of college graduates, vocational college graduates and returned overseas students, streamlined the settlement certificates and simplified the procedures. Strengthen supervision in the recruitment field, severely investigate and deal with illegal activities such as "black intermediary", false recruitment, illegal detection of hepatitis B projects, and severely crack down on credit traps and pyramid schemes, fraud and other illegal and criminal activities in the name of job hunting, employment and entrepreneurship. Standardize employment signing.
The fourth is to do our best to protect the bottom. Expand the scale of employment internship, timely arrange and lock in college graduates and unemployed youth with internship needs, and help them get job practice opportunities. The scope of job-seeking and entrepreneurship subsidies will be expanded to meet the requirements of difficult graduates in secondary vocational schools (including technical colleges), and the subsidies will be adjusted to be completed before the end of October of the graduation year. We will provide "one-on-one" assistance to graduates with employment difficulties and long-term unemployed youth, and carry out job delivery activities in deep poverty-stricken areas.
The "Notice" also puts forward work requirements from strengthening organizational leadership, grasping policy implementation, and strengthening publicity and guidance.
Notice of the People’s Bank of China, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Public Security and Ministry of Finance on Doing a Good Job in Employment and Entrepreneurship of College Graduates under the Current Situation
No.72 [2019] issued by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security
The human resources and social security departments (bureaus), education departments (commissions, bureaus), public security departments (bureaus) and finance departments (bureaus) of all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, the Shanghai headquarters of the People’s Bank of China, branches, business management departments, city center branches of provincial capitals, and sub-provincial city center branches, and colleges and universities jointly established by the ministries and provinces:
Promoting college graduates’ employment and entrepreneurship is related to sustained and healthy economic development, improvement of people’s livelihood and overall social stability. The number of college graduates has reached a new high this year, and the task of promoting employment is more arduous, so we must attach great importance to it. Under the guidance of the Supreme Leader Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the New Era, all localities should fully implement the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on stabilizing employment, implement the employment priority policy, take the employment of college graduates as the top priority, thoroughly implement the employment and entrepreneurship promotion plan and grassroots growth plan for college graduates, expand channels, provide excellent services and strengthen protection, and ensure the overall stability of employment level and the basically stable employment situation. The relevant work is hereby notified as follows:
First, actively expand the field of employment
(1) Support multi-channel employment. Encourage college graduates to work at the grassroots level, and the grassroots service project personnel who have expired and passed the examination in grassroots units below the county level in hard and remote areas can be hired to the township institutions in the service area by direct inspection. For small and micro enterprises to absorb the employment of unemployed college graduates within 2 years after leaving school, social insurance subsidies will be given according to regulations. Social insurance subsidies shall be given to unemployed college graduates who are employed flexibly within 2 years after leaving school.
(2) Encourage entrepreneurship to promote employment. Strengthen the education of innovation and entrepreneurship, and allow undergraduates to apply for dissertation defense with their entrepreneurial achievements on the premise of meeting the requirements of dissertation specifications. Extending entrepreneurship training to campus to enhance college students’ innovation and entrepreneurship ability. Relax the application conditions for business guarantee loans, and cancel the counter-guarantee in principle for college entrepreneurs who have won the honorary title at or above the municipal level and have been assessed by financial institutions as having good credit. Support college graduates to return to their hometowns for entrepreneurial innovation, and give priority to providing loan interest subsidies, venue arrangements and financial subsidies to those who meet the requirements for starting businesses in poor villages. Support the construction of college students’ business incubator base, and give some awards to those who have settled in a large number of entities and have achieved remarkable results in promoting employment.
Second, vigorously strengthen employment services
(3) Start the information handover in advance. The education department and the human resources and social security department should simultaneously start the real-name information handover of unemployed graduates with employment intentions when they leave school, and complete it before the end of July, and ensure the integrity and information security of college graduates’ personal basic information. To improve the real-name information service system, where conditions permit, it is necessary to establish a service platform for employment management of college graduates with departmental information sharing, record the employment situation and the implementation of policy services in time, and realize dynamic management. The department of human resources and social security should provide real-name registration system service for unemployed college graduates who leave school, and provide job information, career guidance, training and probation and other service measures in a targeted manner. Colleges and universities should continue to provide employment information and guidance services for unemployed college graduates, promptly notify them to participate in online and offline campus recruitment, and all departments should also take the initiative to contact them and recommend job information.
(4) Strengthen targeted vocational guidance. Colleges and universities should strengthen students’ career development education, focus on career enlightenment for junior students, and focus on improving professional quality and job-seeking skills for senior students. Organize graduates to visit public employment and entrepreneurship service institutions, enterprises and entrepreneurial parks into the practice of employment guidance courses, and carry out activities such as simulated job hunting, on-site observation and professional experience to enhance their professional cognition and professional ability. The human resources and social security department will co-ordinate resources with the education department, and establish a system of contacting vocational instructors with graduating classes. Each class will appoint a vocational instructor to explain the employment situation, policies and job-seeking methods, strengthen the guidance of employment concepts, and promote graduates to actively find jobs and rationally choose jobs. Strengthen vocational guidance for college graduates in deep poverty areas.
(5) Focus on promoting accurate services. Education departments and colleges and universities should release relevant information about college graduates to the society in a timely manner, and organize campus recruitment activities at different levels, categories and industries. The human resources and social security department should organize public employment talents to serve in the campus, and generally push the local policy list, service list and contact list of service institutions to graduates. Strengthen the accurate delivery of employment information and use big data technology to promote intelligent matching between supply and demand. The recruitment activities and entrepreneurial services carried out by public employment and entrepreneurial service institutions and universities shall be subsidized according to regulations. We will fully integrate returned overseas students and young people from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan into the public employment talent service system and provide employment and entrepreneurship services equally.
(6) Give full play to the role of human resources market. We will improve the unified, standardized and orderly human resources market, vigorously develop the human resources service industry, support the development of specialized and industrial human resources service institutions, and better meet the diversified service needs of college graduates. Implement the government purchase service mechanism and support qualified human resources service institutions to provide special recruitment, employment and entrepreneurship guidance and other public employment and entrepreneurship services for college graduates. Establish and improve the information release system of supply and demand in the human resources market, timely release information such as occupational supply and demand, market wage guidance price, etc., compile a catalogue of urgently needed talents in the region and increase publicity and promotion to improve the matching efficiency of supply and demand in the human resources market.
(seven) increase the intensity of vocational skills training. Incorporate college graduates with training needs into vocational skills upgrading actions, meet employment intentions and development needs of key industries, provide targeted training programs, improve professional skills and social adaptability, and implement vocational training subsidy policies according to regulations. Among them, college graduates from poverty-stricken families, urban and rural low-income families and zero-employment families who have set up a file card will be given a certain cost of living allowance according to the regulations. We will launch a pilot system of "academic certificate+several vocational skill level certificates" to encourage students in vocational colleges and applied undergraduate colleges to actively obtain multiple vocational skill level certificates while obtaining academic certificates, so as to expand their employment and entrepreneurial skills.
Third, strengthen the protection of employment rights and interests
(8) Simplifying employment procedures. The provincial capital and the following cities should fully liberalize the restrictions on the settlement of college graduates, vocational college graduates and returned overseas students, streamline the settlement certificates and simplify the procedures. Colleges and universities can decide whether to arrange graduation physical examination according to the actual situation. Where conditions permit, they can establish a mechanism for mutual recognition of physical examination and physical examination results, and try their best to avoid cumbersome procedures and repeated physical examinations.
(9) Strengthen supervision in the field of recruitment. Strengthen the supervision of the recruitment behavior of employers and human resources service institutions, and prohibit the publication of recruitment information from containing discriminatory contents such as gender and nationality. Guide employers to formulate reasonable recruitment conditions according to the requirements of recruitment positions, and provide equal employment opportunities for college graduates with the same academic qualifications and different training methods. Improve the multi-sector law enforcement linkage mechanism, severely investigate and deal with illegal activities such as "black intermediary", false recruitment, illegal detection of hepatitis B projects, severely crack down on credit traps and pyramid schemes, fraud and other illegal and criminal activities in the name of job hunting, employment and entrepreneurship, and protect the employment rights and interests of college graduates according to law.
(ten) standardize the employment contract. Colleges and universities should strictly implement the "four no’s" regulations, and are not allowed to force graduates to sign employment agreements and labor contracts in any way. It is not allowed to link the issuance of graduation certificates and degree certificates with the signing of graduates. It is not allowed to persuade graduates to sign false employment agreements on the grounds of household registration custody, and it is not allowed to use graduate internship and trainee certification materials as employment proof materials. Human resources service institutions shall not participate in the signing of false employment agreements. In the process of signing the employment agreement, the employer shall not sign a false employment agreement, issue a false employment certificate, or breach the contract at will. Strengthen the verification of employment statistics of college graduates, improve the feedback and evaluation mechanism of employment status, and truly reflect the employment situation.
Fourth, do your best to protect the bottom.
(eleven) to expand the scale of employment probation. We will comprehensively promote the three-year internship program for millions of young people, timely identify college graduates and unemployed young people with internship needs, develop internship positions in a targeted manner, do a good job in internship services, and help them obtain job practice opportunities. The provinces and cities that undertake the task of aiding Tibet, Xinjiang and Qinghai should organize a group of people to go to the mainland for internships according to the needs of the trainees in the recipient areas. For trainee units with a retention rate of more than 50% after the expiration of the probation period, the standard of trainee subsidies will be appropriately raised.
(twelve) do a solid job in helping the difficulties. The scope of subsidies for job-seeking and entrepreneurship will be extended to qualified graduates from secondary vocational schools (including technical colleges), and the time limit for subsidies will be adjusted from the current graduation year to the graduation year, and subsidies will be distributed before the end of October of the graduation year. For private college graduates who meet the requirements, we must ensure the same enjoyment of the policy. The departments of human resources, social security, education and finance should do a good job in policy bidding, voucher simplification and fund arrangement to ensure that subsidies are paid in place on time. We will provide "one-on-one" assistance to poor families, disabled graduates, ethnic minority graduates with employment difficulties, and long-term unemployed youth who have set up a file card, tailor their job-seeking and employment plans, and carry out job-sending activities in deep poverty-stricken areas to help college graduates find jobs.
V. Pay close attention to the implementation of work responsibilities
(thirteen) to strengthen organizational leadership. All localities should adhere to the people-centered development thought, take the employment and entrepreneurship of college graduates as an important political responsibility, improve the target responsibility system for employment, and do a good job in implementation at all levels. Human resources and social security departments should strengthen overall planning, coordinate all relevant parties to promote the work, and solve the difficulties and problems encountered in the work in a timely manner. Education departments and colleges and universities should conscientiously implement the "number one" project of employment work and ensure that "institutions, venues, personnel and funds" are in place. Public security, finance, banking and other departments and units should give full play to their functional advantages and work closely together to promote the employment and entrepreneurship of college graduates.
(14) Do a good job in policy implementation. Strengthen the publicity and interpretation of employment and entrepreneurship policies, and help college graduates know and use policies in a way that young people like to see and hear. Comprehensively streamline the policy documents, and all the matters that can be inquired or promised online will no longer require the applicant to issue certificates. Accelerate the informationization of policy application, review and distribution, and ensure the timely implementation of policies. Comprehensive use of human resources market supply and demand monitoring, big data analysis and other means, closely track the impact of economic operation changes on the employment of college graduates, and take targeted policy measures in time.
(fifteen) to strengthen publicity and guidance. All localities should thoroughly study and implement the important exposition of the Supreme Leader’s General Secretary on the growth of young people in the new era, educate and guide college graduates to strengthen their patriotic ideals and beliefs, combine career choices with national development, and make contributions to the places where the motherland needs them most and the grassroots. Cultivate and carry forward the spirit of struggle, labor and craftsmanship, and set up a number of advanced models of employment and entrepreneurship. Strengthen the guidance of public opinion monitoring and public opinion, actively respond to social concerns, stabilize employment expectations, and create a good atmosphere of caring for and supporting college graduates’ employment and entrepreneurship.
Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, Ministry of Education
Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of Finance, China People’s Bank
July 3, 2019
