Expected 9.09 million college graduates in 2021

On December 1, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security held the 2021 National College Graduates’ Employment and Entrepreneurship Online Video Conference in Beijing to learn and implement the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and make arrangements for 2021 college graduates Employment work. Vice Minister of Education Weng Tiehui and Vice Minister of Human Resources and Social Security Li Zhong attended the meeting and delivered speeches.
The meeting pointed out that since the beginning of this year, education departments, human resources and social departments and colleges and universities have actively responded to the impact of the epidemic, strengthened their responsibilities, opened up employment channels, and strengthened employment services, and maintained the overall stability of the employment situation of graduates. The total scale of college graduates in 2021 is expected to be 9.09 million, an increase of 350,000 year-on-year. The employment situation is severe and complex. Colleges and universities in all regions should learn and understand the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, deeply understand the importance of doing a good job in the employment of college graduates, and integrate the requirements of establishing a new development stage, implementing new development concepts, and building a new development pattern. In the employment of college graduates, we should do a good job in planning, overall planning, policy reserve, and risk response, and do everything possible to promote more full and higher-quality employment for 2021 college graduates.
The meeting emphasized that local education departments and universities should implement the Ministry of Education’s notification requirements for the employment and entrepreneurship of the 2021 national college graduates, and implement the 2021 national college graduates’ employment and entrepreneurship promotion actions. We need to open up new jobs in a variety of ways, promote diversified supply, expand new employment opportunities, support graduates to find employment and entrepreneurship in strategic emerging industries, modern service industries, etc., mobilize and encourage graduates to join the grassroots, join the army, and expand the recruitment of research assistant positions. Enrollment scale for the second bachelor’s degree. It is necessary to optimize and innovate the way of supply and demand connection, strive to improve quality and efficiency, broaden the main channels of campus recruitment, build a platform for employment and entrepreneurship supply and demand connection, and strengthen efficient employment information services. It is necessary to do a good job of education and guidance, promote service upgrades, and strive to achieve graduation education, employment guidance, employment services, and employment tracking. It is necessary to provide precise and precise assistance to the needy groups, promote implementation and achieve results, implement the employment and entrepreneurship improvement actions of key groups of graduates, continue to implement the “one-for-one” action of national colleges and universities in Hubei, and do a good job in safeguarding the rights of graduates. It is necessary to give better play to the role of employment feedback, promote quality improvement, carry out follow-up surveys of employment status, promote comprehensive employment evaluation, and deepen the reform of employment and enrollment, and foster linkage mechanisms. It is necessary to implement the “top-level project” for employment, strengthen the construction of the employment team, strictly regulate employment statistics, make overall plans for epidemic prevention and control, and strive to ensure the overall stability of the employment situation.
The meeting required that local human resources and social departments should build a coordinated linkage mechanism for expanding channels, promoting entrepreneurship, strengthening services, improving capabilities, and protecting rights. It is necessary to broaden the employment channels for college graduates, stabilize the recruitment of public institutions, promote the expansion of recruitment by state-owned enterprises, encourage small, medium and micro enterprises to absorb more jobs, support flexible employment through multiple channels, encourage graduates to find employment in urban and rural communities, and do a good job of “three supports and one support” recruit. It is necessary to support and guide entrepreneurship and innovation, implement the policy of increasing the amount of business secured loans and reducing interest rates, extend the scope of entrepreneurship training to campuses, and provide one-stop services such as consulting and guidance, tracking support, and achievement transformation. It is necessary to improve the quality of employment services, increase online information release, enhance offline service quality, provide policy and service convenience, and better meet the diverse needs of graduates. It is necessary to enhance job hunting and employability, carry out vocational guidance, go to campus, and go to community activities, implement the “Millions of Youth Skills Training Action”, expand knowledge-based, technical, and management-based internships, and provide greater support for graduates to enter the workplace. It is necessary to increase the protection of employment rights, establish a list of assistance for graduates from disadvantaged families, remote areas and third- and fourth-tier cities, and provide priority assistance. Continue to clean up and rectify market order and severely crack down on violations. It is necessary to deepen the actual employment and entrepreneurship promotion action, the employment and entrepreneurship service tackling seasonal action, and do a good job in assisting the employment of unemployed graduates.
The Department of Education of Yunnan Province, the Department of Human Resources and Social Security of Shandong Province, Zhejiang University, East China Jiaotong University, Henan Vocational College of Mechatronics made conference exchange speeches. Responsible comrades from the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Finance, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, the National Bureau of Statistics, the National Defense Mobilization Department of the Central Military Commission, and the Communist Youth League Central Committee attended the meeting. The conference was provided by China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. with technical support. For the first time, branch venues were set up in ordinary colleges and universities in various provinces, with a total of more than 110,000 participants.