Deputy Dean Yu Hong Interviewed on Work during the “13th Five-year Plan” Period

Deputy dean Yu Hong of School of Public Economics and Administration of Shanghai University of China Public Finance Institute was interviewed by China Youth Daily on the government’s work in employment during the “13th five-year plan”. She expressed the difficulty in governing a big country: employment matters both the economic development and the mass’ livelihood security and behind employment are the expectation and the mass’ sense of gain.

Employment Promotion Planning of the “13th Five-year Plan” puts forward that the following objectives need to be achieved by 2020: stable expansion of employment scale, further improvement of employment quality; obvious improvement of entrepreneurship environment, which will pull the constant enhancement of employment capability; constant optimization of human resource structure, and the striking improvement of the labor’s employment and entrepreneurship capability.

The latest data displays that the Planning has become a reality. Yu Hong said it is a big accomplishment; during the “13th five-year plan”, China’s economy changes in stability, enters the structure adjustment period from high speed increase to medium and high speed increase; different industries will be confronted with pains and it is definitely not easy for employment to reach such a indicator;

Yu Hong believed that the conduction speed differs and the arrangement of “employment first” is manifested in a real sense which is the result of employment guarantee and employment stabilization of each place; the conduction of employment policy is very direct, and it is obvious that the government gives support at different levels on employment after the outbreak of the epidemic.

Yu Hong said the employment task is even more important under the condition of heavy economic burden, because employment is a problem which can be felt easily; it is a must to solve this problem which can be felt most easily under the hard environment, and only in such a way can the mass’ sense of gain be guaranteed.