CCTV News: On the morning of January 21, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security held a press conference. The relevant person in charge said that the employment situation in 2024 is generally stable.

In 2024, 12.56 million new urban jobs were created nationwide, and the average urban surveyed unemployment rate for the whole year was 5.1%. The number of people who were lifted out of poverty by the end of the year was 33.052 million, and 38.6 billion yuan of unemployment insurance funds for stabilizing and expanding jobs were distributed to 6.65 million insured enterprises throughout the year.

Chen Yongjia, deputy director of the Employment Promotion Department of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, said that in the next step, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security will anchor the goal of high-quality full employment, deepen reforms in the employment field, promote the coordinated efforts of fiscal, monetary, employment, industry and other policies, implement employment support plans for key areas, key industries, urban and rural grassroots and small and medium-sized enterprises, strengthen regular consultations from departments, and continuously expand new growth points for employment.

The relevant person in charge said that the policy of gradual delay in the statutory retirement age has been carried out in a steady and orderly manner, the basic pension insurance for enterprise employees has been implemented nationwide, and the pilot project of occupational injury protection for new employment forms has made positive progress. By the end of 2024, the number of social security card holders was 1.389 billion, of which 1.07 billion people received electronic social security cards.