Qiushi Journal Issue Preview: No. 21, 2024

An article on promoting high-quality and sufficient employment by General Secretary Xi Jinping was published in Issue No. 21, 2024, Qiushi Journal.

According to the article, employment is the most basic component of the people’s wellbeing. It concerns the vital interests of the people, the healthy economic and social development, as well as the security and stability of the country.

Since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, we have steadily deepened our understanding of the laws governing employment in the new era and accumulated a wealth of experience. These include upholding the Party’s overall leadership over employment work; ensuring employment serves as the foundation of people’s wellbeing; implementing an employment-first strategy; promoting employment through development; expanding employment capacity while improving employment quality; promoting employment among key groups; stimulating job creation by encouraging business startups; fostering a fair employment environment; building harmonious labor relations. We must adhere to these practices over the long term and continuously enrich and develop them.

According to the article, it is our new mission and task to promote high-quality and full employment in the new era on the new journey. To achieve this, we should continue to take the employment-first strategy, tackle structural unemployment, and improve support policies among key groups. We should also further reform in systems and mechanisms for employment, and safeguard workers’ rights and interests. The article also urges Party committees and governments at all levels to give top priority to employment-related work by strengthening organization and leadership and improving systems and mechanisms, so as to forge strong synergy in their work.

Readers will find in this issue an editorial piece, inspired by General Secretary Xi Jinping’s vision.

The CPC Leadership Group of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security elaborates on the implementation of the employment-first strategy in promoting high-quality and full employment.

Xin Changxing, Secretary of the CPC Jiangsu Provincial Committee and Director of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial People’s Congress, introduces Jiangsu’s efforts to take the lead in furthering reform which is suited to Jiangsu’s own conditions.

Zheng Shanjie, Minister of the National Development and Reform Commission and Secretary of its CPC Leadership Group, elaborates on how to ramp up the green transition in all areas of economic and social development.

The article by the CPC Leadership Group of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment focuses on deepening reform in ecological conservation to build a Beautiful China.

The CPC Leadership Group of the National Bureau of Statistics explains that China’s national economy is progressing steadily while maintaining stability, with a growing accumulation of positive factors indicating upward momentum and improvement.

The CPC Leadership Group of the State Post Bureau stresses the role of express delivery in the logistics sector, especially in effectively reducing logistics costs throughout society.

Zhao Jiaming, a member of the Standing Committee and Director of the Publicity Department of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee offers his insights on how to further promote Shanghai’s cultural development by seizing the opportunity of deepening reform on all fronts.

An article from the Organization Department of the CPC Jilin Provincial Committee elucidates how to provide a solid organizational guarantee for the reform and development of state-owned enterprises.

The CPC Leadership Group of the Dongfang Electric Corporation introduces its efforts in striving to be a pacesetter in the innovative practices of high-end equipment manufacturing.

Reporters with Xinhua News Agency recount the dynamic practices and significant accomplishments in our efforts to promote ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River basin.

The series of reports on “Enhancing National Strength, Embracing a New Journey” continues to offer vivid insights into the historic changes and achievements of China over the past 75 years, especially since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012.

This issue closes with a diagram released by the National Bureau of Statistics which shows major indicators of China’s national economy from January to September in 2024.

Editor: Yi Xiaowei