Promoting high-quality and full employment of college graduates is not only about the present but also conducive to the long-term.

Recently, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of a High-Quality Employment Service System for Graduates of Ordinary Higher Education Institutions", making arrangements for the construction of a high-quality employment service system and promoting high-quality full employment of college graduates.

Why did this opinion be issued?

College graduates are valuable talent resources for the Party and the country, and their employment is related to thousands of households. At present, my country's higher education has entered the stage of popularization, and the scale of college graduates has continued to grow, exceeding 10 million for three consecutive years since 2022, and has become the absolute main body of new urban employment in my country.

The head of the College Students Department (College Graduate Employment Service Department) of the Ministry of Education introduced: "Focus on promoting the adaptation of supply and demand for higher education talents and providing stronger talent support for high-quality economic and social development, it is urgent to highlight problem-oriented approaches and strive to solve problems such as supply and demand adaptation, service upgrades, and mechanism optimization." It can be said that it is timely to issue this opinion.

What new deployments and measures are there for the opinions?

From the specific content, the opinions propose "six major systems" including optimizing the training supply system, strengthening the employment guidance system, improving the job search and recruitment system, improving the assistance system, innovating the monitoring and evaluation system, and consolidating the support and guarantee system. They involve multiple links and aspects of the job hunting and employment process of college graduates, providing solid guarantees for promoting high-quality and full employment of college graduates.

One of which, the opinions put the optimization of the training supply system at the top of building a high-quality employment service system for college graduates -

Focus on the talent demand side, propose scientific analysis of talent development trends and supply and demand conditions, build a talent demand database, and regularly publish a list of urgently needed disciplines and majors to guide development, etc.

Focus on the education supply side, propose dynamically adjusting the layout of higher education majors and resource structures, and guide universities to clarify the positioning of school management and development of classified characteristics.

"Talent training and social needs are matched, so that college graduates can do a good job in employment." Kuang Xiaozhen, director of the Beijing College Student Employment and Entrepreneurship Guidance Center, said, "The competent departments of various industries should work together with the education department to share information to make the talent demand database information more sufficient and more accurate, and thus promote the training of higher education talents and the requirements of high-quality economic and social development."

Job search and recruitment is a key link in the employment of college graduates. The opinions propose a series of measures to improve the job search and recruitment system to better meet the needs of college graduates for high-quality services.

Promote the sharing of recruitment resources on and off campus, build a number of regional and industry-oriented college graduate employment markets; implement supply and demand docking employment education projects, support schools and enterprises to jointly cultivate urgently needed talents in key areas; coordinate the time arrangements for recruiting (recording) college graduates by party and government organs, public institutions, state-owned enterprises, etc.; support private enterprises to stabilize jobs, and deeply explore and absorb employment potential... The opinions highlight the precise and convenient orientation, and focus on giving full play to the important role of campus recruitment activities in promoting the docking of people and jobs.

In fact, for some time, many regions and universities have continued to explore and achieve positive results in improving the job search and recruitment system. For example, Hunan University held a series of supply and demand negotiation meetings for the spring industry-professional precision docking, inviting more than 400 key units to recruit from the school, providing more than 10,000 jobs; the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education carefully organized a series of campus recruitment activities for "Ten Thousand Enterprises Entering Campus" to actively connect with the 24365 employment platform, connect the employment service platforms of universities across the province, and realize job information sharing.

"The opinions put forward clear requirements around campus recruitment services, guiding us to work hard on the goal of "accurate" supply and demand matching and the goal of "wide" expansion of "wide" channels." Yang Min, deputy director of the Admissions and Employment Department of Guizhou University, said, "On the one hand, we invite friendly enterprises with long-term cooperation to recruit outstanding graduates to the school. On the other hand, we 'twelve to go' with employers through the joint construction of employment internship practice bases and other methods to continuously explore high-quality employment positions."

Focus on the employment of disadvantaged graduates, the opinions have also launched many pragmatic measures to provide heartwarming services.

For example, the opinion proposes that services and assistance should be provided to assisted families with poverty alleviation, minimum living allowance, marginal families with minimum living allowance, families with rigid expenditure difficulties, zero-employment families, college graduates with disabilities and not employed for a long time, etc.; timely disburse one-time job seeking subsidies to meet the conditions; implement the "Hongzhi Aid" employment capacity training project, expand the training coverage in an orderly manner, and improve the effectiveness of training and assistance, etc.

How to promote the deployment of opinions and implementation?

The opinions clearly state that all regions and relevant departments should improve the employment work system for college graduates and implement the opinions in light of actual conditions; the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security takes the lead in formulating employment policies for college graduates and be responsible for employment guidance services for college graduates after leaving school.

The reporter learned that the Ministry of Education is deploying universities in various places to seize the critical period of spring employment promotion work, and carry out the "Spring Employment Promotion Action" for 2025 college graduates from March to April, accelerate the organization of campus recruitment, and carry out employment assistance accurately.

"In the next step, the education system will launch a series of specific implementation plans around the 'six systems' proposed by the opinions, promote the implementation of various tasks in an orderly manner, and strive to promote high-quality and full employment of college graduates." said the person in charge of the College Students Department (College Graduate Employment Service Department) of the Ministry of Education.

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 8)