Recently, the Beijing Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau and the Beijing Municipal Development and Reform Commission jointly issued the "Beijing 15th Five-Year Plan for Promoting High-Quality and Full Employment" (hereinafter referred to as the Plan), which sets out the overall requirements, main indicators, key tasks, and safeguard measures for employment work in Beijing during the 15th Five-Year Plan period.

The Plan proposes that by 2030, the city will have basically formed a pattern of high-quality and full employment. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the cumulative urban new employment over five years will reach 1.4 million, the surveyed urban unemployment rate will be kept within 5%, and 200,000 new entrepreneurial entities will be added to the insurance system.

Building an Employment-Friendly Development Model

The Plan deploys eight key tasks: first, highlight the employment-first orientation and build an employment-friendly development model; second, promote coordinated employment development and cultivate new momentum for employment expansion and quality improvement; third, accelerate human resource development and focus on resolving structural employment contradictions; fourth, strengthen support for key groups and further reinforce employment bottom-line guarantees; fifth, stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship vitality and promote the healthy development of new employment forms; sixth, improve the employment service system and enhance the efficiency of convenient employment services; seventh, build harmonious labor relations and create a fair and orderly employment environment; eighth, improve the employment monitoring mechanism and prevent and defuse risks of large-scale unemployment.

The Plan states that high-quality and full employment will be taken as a priority goal of economic and social development, incorporated into national economic and social development plans, and the process of promoting high-quality development will become a process of improving employment quality and expanding employment capacity. Efforts will be increased to coordinate employment funds, strengthen "investment in people," and support workers in employment and entrepreneurship. Fiscal, industrial, investment, consumption, and other policies will be coordinated with employment policies, and policy support will be given to industries and enterprises that absorb employment well. Policies with obvious contractionary effects on employment will be introduced cautiously. The "Beijing Employment Promotion Regulations" will be advanced, and the legal safeguard system for the employment-first strategy will be improved. The construction of employment-friendly scenarios will be promoted, and the employment ecosystem will be optimized. Several measures will be formulated to make employment friendly for new employment groups, and humanistic care and warm services will be strengthened. Policies supporting employment for older persons will be improved, and service areas for older people will be set up in public employment service venues.

In terms of enhancing the employment-driving capacity of economic development, the responsibilities of comprehensive economic departments and industry authorities will be strengthened, the guiding role of industrial policies and industrial guidance funds will be brought into play, employment absorption will be increased, and enterprises will be encouraged to develop distinctive positions. The number of positions developed will be used as a reference indicator for the approval, review, and acceptance of government-invested projects, and projects with significant employment-driving effects will receive priority support. A mechanism for collecting and publishing positions from government-invested projects will be established, giving priority to absorbing key groups such as college graduates, rural laborers, and people with employment difficulties.

Implementing a Special Plan for Job Development

The Plan proposes to actively develop high-precision and advanced industries such as next-generation information technology, intelligent equipment, and artificial intelligence, expand hundred-billion-level and trillion-level industrial clusters, and create high-quality jobs; implement a special plan for job development, deeply tap the potential of the debut economy, nighttime economy, silver economy, and ice and snow economy, and promote the exploration and expansion of jobs. It also calls for strengthening the development of basic and practical jobs and cultivating positions such as organizers, caregivers, and nursery teachers. Focusing on building a global digital economy benchmark city, digital technology jobs will be developed. Around the construction of an international consumption center city, service supply such as childcare and elderly care, beauty and health, and smart health care will be increased to fully unleash employment potential. The employment scale of government agencies, public institutions, and state-owned enterprises will be stabilized.

At the same time, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development strategy will be implemented, a Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei human resources market information sharing platform will be built, the role of the National Public Employment Service Regional Center (Beijing) will be brought into play, joint recruitment activities across the three regions will be carried out, and the radiating and driving effect on employment will be improved.

Vigorously Attracting Young Talent to Work and Start Businesses

The Plan emphasizes that the employment of college graduates will be treated as the top priority of employment work, various resources will be coordinated, and market-based and socialized employment channels will be broadened. Efforts will focus on tapping employment potential in fields such as the digital economy, green economy, and creative economy, developing positions suited to the professional strengths of college graduates, and guiding them to devote themselves to key industries, urban and rural grassroots areas, and small, medium, and micro enterprises. The recruitment scale of the public sector will be stabilized, support for stabilizing and expanding jobs in private enterprises and small, medium, and micro enterprises will be increased, and their capacity to absorb graduates will be enhanced. The construction of university employment and entrepreneurship guidance service stations will be deepened, the supply of employment internship positions will be expanded, vocational skills training will be carried out on campuses, and graduates will be helped to improve their employability. An action plan will be implemented to tackle employment services for graduates who have left school without employment, bottom-line assistance for graduates in difficulty will be strengthened, and graduates will be promoted to become employed as much as possible.

At the same time, young talent will be vigorously attracted to work and start businesses in Beijing. Focusing on promoting young people to come to Beijing and stay in Beijing for employment and entrepreneurship, the "Beijing Welcomes You" brand will be strengthened, various outstanding talents will be vigorously introduced, and the vitality of urban development will be enhanced. Services and guarantees for young talent staying in Beijing will be strengthened, the supply of "one bed, one room" will be increased, the supply of public rental housing and affordable rental housing for young talent will be expanded, and the application process will be simplified. Policy resources such as subsidies and grants, entrepreneurial support, and introduction and household registration will be integrated, financial support for youth entrepreneurship will be strengthened, and the attractiveness of young people to work and start businesses in Beijing will be enhanced. Employment promotion actions such as youth job-seeking ability training and vocational skills improvement will be vigorously carried out, employment and entrepreneurship exchange platforms will be built, advanced models of youth employment and entrepreneurship will be selected, and a good atmosphere supporting young people's development in Beijing will be created.

Improving the Social Security System Covering All People

In terms of promoting reasonable growth of labor remuneration, the Plan clearly states that macro guidance and regulation of enterprise wages will be strengthened, human resources market salary data reports will be released in a timely manner, enterprises will be guided to improve the treatment of skilled talent, the minimum wage standard will be adjusted in due course, enterprise wage guidance lines will be released, and the reasonable growth of workers' wages will be promoted. State-owned enterprise compensation management will be standardized, and an employment environment will be created in which "those who work more earn more, those with higher skills earn more, and those who innovate earn more."

The Plan proposes to improve the social security system covering all people, promote employers and employees to participate in insurance according to law, achieve full coverage of the statutory population for basic old-age insurance for employees, and expand the coverage of unemployment insurance, work-related injury insurance, and housing provident funds. The financing and benefit adjustment mechanism of basic old-age insurance will be improved, and a multi-tiered old-age insurance system will be developed. The linkage mechanism between employment and unemployment insurance and minimum living security will be improved, a stratified and classified social assistance system will be strengthened, and regulations on the gradual withdrawal period of minimum living security and the deduction of employment costs will be implemented.

Carrying Out Dynamic Monitoring of AI's Employment Impact

The Plan clearly states that a regular monitoring mechanism for the capital's population and employment will be established, and an indicator system for unemployment risk monitoring and early warning will be improved; an employment risk reserve fund system will be established, and an emergency plan for large-scale unemployment risks will be improved.

At the same time, responses to the employment impact of artificial intelligence will be strengthened. The role of artificial intelligence in creating new jobs and empowering traditional jobs will be brought into play to create high-quality employment positions. Dynamic monitoring of AI's employment impact will be carried out, and continuous tracking will be conducted on AI application penetration, job creation and substitution, and changes in skill demand. Policy reserves such as skill transformation will be strengthened, and technological innovation and employment expansion will be promoted in coordination. The direction of career changes led by artificial intelligence will be studied, and the cultivation of urgently needed talent will be strengthened. General AI education and skills training will be incorporated into the education and training curriculum system, industry-education integration will be promoted, new occupations and new positions will be actively developed, and vocational skills training will be strengthened.

The Plan proposes that by 2030, the city's employment situation will remain generally stable, the employment-first strategy will be effectively implemented, the employment work system will become increasingly complete, employment policies and systems will be more fully developed, a mechanism for coordinated linkage between employment and economic and social development will be firmly established, notable results will be achieved in building an employment-friendly city, the capacity of entrepreneurship to drive employment will continue to improve, channels for human resource mobility will be further unblocked, regional employment will become more balanced, workers' quality will steadily improve, the public employment service system will be more complete, labor remuneration will grow reasonably, the employment environment will be friendly and inclusive, labor relations will be harmonious and stable, and a pattern of high-quality and full employment will basically take shape. By 2035, employment opportunities will be more abundant, the employment structure will be more optimized, employment supply and demand will be more balanced, the employment environment will be more friendly, and the pattern of high-quality and full employment will be further consolidated.