New employment targets more than 9 million next year

NPC Standing Committee considers report of the State Council on promoting the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, promoting employment and reemployment, etc. Wu Bangguo attended the 12th meeting of the NPC Standing Committee of Beijing December 24, and held its second plenary meeting at the Great Hall of the people of Beijing 24th.　　To consider the report of the State Council on the promotion of SME development, the report on the promotion of employment and re-employment, and to consider the report of the National People's Congress Agriculture and Rural Committee on the Construction of rural social security system. Chairman Wu Bangguo attended the meeting.　　The meeting was chaired by vice Chairman Guowei. Since the reform and opening-up, China's small and medium-sized enterprises continue to grow and develop, in the prosperity of the economy, increase employment, promote innovation, improve people's livelihood, play an increasingly important role. By the end of September this year, the national small and medium-sized enterprises up to 10.231 million households, the creation of the ultimate value of products and services equivalent to about 60% of gross domestic product, providing nearly 80% of urban employment. Commissioned by the State Council, Minister of Industry and Information technology Li Yizhong reported on the recent years to promote SME development. Li said that under the joint efforts of all parties, the development conditions and environment of small and medium-sized enterprises have improved markedly, and the quality and level of development have made great progress, but they still face many problems and difficulties.　　The next step will continue to increase the implementation of SME promotion law and relevant policy provisions, increase fiscal and taxation policies to support the efforts to effectively alleviate the financing difficulties of SMEs, vigorously promote the restructuring and optimization of small and medium-sized enterprises, improve the social service system, and guide and support small and medium-sized enterprises to strengthen governance. Commissioned by the State Council, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security Minister Yin to the meeting reported on the promotion of employment and re-employment work. Yin said that at present, the impact of the international financial crisis on our country has not bottomed out, coupled with the change in employment lags behind the changes in economic development, the expected adverse effects of the crisis on employment will be further revealed, and will continue for a long time. Next year, the objective task of employment work is initially considered as follows: More than 9 million new employees, Laid-off workers re-employment 5 million people. The next step will be to expand employment, stabilize employment, college graduates and migrant workers and other difficult groups of employment, strengthen employment service system construction and vocational skills training, establish a long-term mechanism to promote employment, and strive to do a good job in employment and re-employment, for economic and social development and maintain stability of the overall situation make due contributions