This year, the number of college graduates nationwide exceeded 10 million for the first time. At the same time, the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic continues, and the employment situation is very severe and complicated. This incident touched the heart of the Supreme Leader General Secretary. During his visit to Sichuan, he came to Yibin College to focus on the employment situation of graduates.
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Very concerned at the critical stage
Employment is the foundation of people’s livelihood. In May 2013, when General Secretary of the Supreme Leader visited Tianjin, he made a special trip to investigate the employment of college students. The general secretary had a cordial conversation with recruiters and college students, and had a discussion with college graduates and other representatives, demanding that the youth employment work with college graduates as the focus should be earnestly done.
In 2020, the epidemic broke out in COVID-19. In February of that year, at the deployment meeting to promote epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, the general secretary specifically emphasized that "we should pay attention to the employment of college graduates and make overall plans for graduation, recruitment, examination and other related work, so that they can graduate smoothly and get employment as soon as possible."
In July of that year, the General Secretary visited FAW Group. I heard that there were several college students who graduated that year, and the general secretary was concerned about the inquiry.
△ These are several college students who were on the scene at that time and joined FAW Group in 2020. (Photographed by CCTV reporter Lu Xinyu)
At the end of last year, at the Central Economic Work Conference, the General Secretary once again stressed that the employment problems of young people such as college graduates should be solved and the flexible employment and social security policies should be improved.
At present, it is the key stage of college graduates’ employment. Around the "100-day sprint", relevant departments are focusing on a series of special actions such as recruitment, visiting enterprises to expand their posts, enrolling all enterprises in schools, employment guidance, and precise assistance.
During the inspection tour of Yibin University, the General Secretary stressed that in order to further tap the post resources and provide detailed employment guidance services, schools, enterprises and relevant departments should do a good job in the implementation of student employment contracts, especially focusing on poverty-stricken families, low-income families, zero-employment families and disabled college graduates who have not been employed for a long time.
"Although the road of life is long, there are often only a few steps at stake, especially when people are young." Give a hand, give a hand, and convey warmth and strength.
Message to graduates: "Keep an honest heart"
To solve the problem of college students’ employment, it is also necessary for college students to change their employment concept.
In July, 2020, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader wrote back to the graduates of Karamay Campus of China Shiyou University. Knowing that 118 students will go to work at the grassroots level in Xinjiang after graduation, the general secretary said, "I support this life choice you have made."
In May 2013, when the General Secretary visited Tianjin, he encouraged contemporary college students to be ambitious and down-to-earth, to change their concept of choosing a job, to proceed from reality, to be brave in going to the grassroots and hard places, to take the road of life step by step, and to be good at creating extraordinary achievements in ordinary posts.
This is the earnest message of the general secretary and his practice. In May, 2014, the General Secretary talked with Peking University’s teachers and students about the choice of going abroad and working when he was young, but in the end, the idea of "wanting to do something" made him choose to stay at home and work for the country and people. "A life with faith, dreams, struggle and dedication is a meaningful life."
△ Yibin College, the students who participated in the employment and entrepreneurship promotion activities of the 2022 graduates took a group photo. (Photographed by Li Jin, a reporter from Taiwan)
This time in Yibin College, the general secretary told the students that a happy life is created by labor. Everyone should keep a down-to-earth heart, look at personal conditions and social needs objectively, choose occupations and jobs from reality, love labor, be down-to-earth, and grow up step by step in practice.
As the general secretary said, "As long as there is ambition, there will be a career, and as long as there is skill, there will be a stage."
Innovation and entrepreneurship: running hard on the track of youth
In May 2013, when General Secretary of the Supreme Leader visited Tianjin, he asked relevant departments to increase support for college graduates to start their own businesses, so as to enhance students’ ability of employment, entrepreneurship and career change.
At present, China has held eight consecutive "internet plus" College Students’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, promoting innovation to lead entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship to promote employment. In August 2017, the General Secretary wrote back to the college students who participated in the "Youth Red Dream Tour" of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, encouraging them to "take root in China to understand the national conditions and people’s feelings, and grow their wisdom and talents in innovation and entrepreneurship".
In April 2016, the General Secretary once again called for innovation and entrepreneurship at the symposium of intellectuals, model workers and youth representatives.
△ Yibin College, green grass. (Photographed by Li Jin, a reporter from Taiwan)
In May this year, the General Office of the State Council issued the Notice on Further Improving the Employment and Entrepreneurship of Young College Graduates, which clearly stated that self-employment and flexible employment were supported, and one-time entrepreneurship subsidies, business guarantee loans and interest subsidies, tax reduction and exemption, social insurance subsidies and other policies were given according to regulations.
Young people are always new, most enthusiastic and motivated to innovate. During a recent inspection tour at Renmin University of China, the General Secretary encouraged the students to be pioneers and strive to be pioneers in the new process of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way.
In the college graduation season, youth never leaves. Every student will start a two-way journey of life and ideal under the warm eyes.
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