Youth Unemployment, Textile And Other Manufacturing Industries' Ability To "Stabilize Employment" Is Unshakable

　　 The World Employment and Social Outlook: 2023 Trends Report issued by the International Labour Organization points out that young people aged 15 to 24 face serious difficulties in finding and maintaining decent employment, and the unemployment rate of this group is three times that of adults aged 25 and above. In recent years, the unemployment rate of urban youth aged 16 to 24 in China has been on the high side, which is restricted by both gross and structural factors. On the one hand, the number of college graduates has increased year after year, reaching 11.58 million this year, which makes the task of promoting employment more arduous. On the other hand, the structural employment contradiction of youth groups has become increasingly prominent. Supply and demand are disjointed, people and posts are not suitable, and "slow employment" phenomenon occurs from time to time. "Difficulty in employment" and "difficulty in recruitment" coexist for a long time. Industrial transformation and upgrading also bring greater challenges to the employment of young people with low education.

　　 The potential of manufacturing industry to promote employment needs to be released

　　 Youth employment is related to the growth of individuals and the future of national development. Generally speaking, the highest youth unemployment rate occurs in July every year, and a large number of students leave school to enter the job market. As graduates enter the window period of job hunting, it is crucial to make full efforts to promote youth employment.

　　 Employment is the foundation of people's livelihood, ranking first in the work of "six stability" and "six guarantees" during the "14th Five Year Plan" period.

　　 Manufacturing industry is an important carrier to absorb employment, and has a strong ability to stabilize employment and promote employment. The State Council executive meeting held not long ago pointed out that practical and effective measures should be taken to stabilize the employment scale of manufacturing and foreign trade enterprises. For a long time, the rapid development of China's manufacturing industry has directly or indirectly created many jobs, absorbed a large number of agricultural transfer population, and played the role of driving the main force of employment.

　　 The 14th Five Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China and the Outline of Vision Goals for 2035 emphasize the implementation of the "employment priority" strategy, "improve the promotion mechanism conducive to more full and high-quality employment, expand employment capacity, improve employment quality, and ease structural employment contradictions", "support the development of labor-intensive enterprises with strong employment absorption capacity", "Promote equal employment, increase high-quality employment, focus on the development of skill intensive industries, and support and standardize the development of new forms of employment". This shows that under the guidance of employment priority strategy, China's manufacturing industry will continue to play an important role in "stabilizing employment" for some time in the future.

　　 In the era of digital economy, with the vigorous development and popularization of digital technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence and mobile Internet, digital technology has become an important support for the high-quality development of the real economy, promoting the acceleration of the transformation from demographic dividend to technological dividend in the manufacturing industry. In the process of intelligent and digital driven transformation and upgrading, labor-intensive manufacturing industry will face the employment impact of "machine replacement" and unskilled, but at the same time, it will also receive digital dividends such as the creation of high-quality jobs and the increase of income of medium and high skilled workers brought about by "skill biased technological progress".

　　 In recent years, with the emergence of new models and new formats in the development of platform economy, metauniverse and other new economies in recent years, as well as the application and promotion of digital technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things in labor-intensive manufacturing, the process of intelligent and digital transformation of labor-intensive manufacturing will lead to new jobs and flexible employment methods. According to the Report on the Development of New Vocational Online Learning Platform released by the China Employment Training Technology Guidance Center of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security in 2020 in conjunction with Ali Nailing, in the next five years, the demand gap for highly skilled talents in new professions, including digital managers, Internet of Things installation and commissioning personnel, industrial robot system operators and operation and maintenance personnel, will be nearly 10 million. These new jobs are expected to become an important channel to attract high-tech talents and skilled talents in the future by virtue of their relatively free and flexible working methods and higher income.

　　 Textile solves 20 million jobs

　　 "The textile industry has always been a pioneer industry for entrepreneurship and employment, providing more than ten million high-quality jobs with reasonable income and space for career improvement." Sun Ruizhe, president of the China Textile Industry Federation, once mentioned that the road to modernization of the textile industry is a development process that continues to play the role of increasing income and becoming rich, and prospering the regional economy. The agglomeration of industries in counties and towns has strongly promoted the process of urbanization and rural revitalization; The industrial system of cross regional division of labor and integration inherits and promotes non-material cultural skills, playing an important role in poverty alleviation and prosperity, and stabilizing and prospering the border; Realize the organic integration of modern manufacturing industry and urban agglomeration economy with urban fashion industry. In the future, the textile industry is committed to economic prosperity and common prosperity, with broad space for action.

　　 He Yaqiong, Director of the Consumer Goods Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, also pointed out that the textile industry is the cornerstone of people's livelihood. First, provide important livelihood products. China's textile industry has constantly strengthened innovation, improved quality, reduced costs and increased efficiency, achieved reasonable prices, good quality, and novel styles, met the needs of all groups of society for textiles and clothing, and beautified people's beautiful lives. The second is to solve the problem of massive employment. The textile industry covers a wide range of areas, providing various levels of employment opportunities in different fields such as scientific and technological innovation, production manufacturing, creative design, etc. Clothing, home textile, etc., as typical labor-intensive industries, provide jobs for a large number of ordinary workers. At present, more than 20 million people in the whole society are employed in the textile industry. Third, promote common prosperity. In many fields of the textile industry, the technical threshold is low, and the initial investment capital is small, which provides innovation and entrepreneurship opportunities for the majority of newly graduated students and people with low education. In the industrial cluster, a large number of small and micro enterprises established one by one have obtained good benefits by providing supporting facilities for leading enterprises; In the creative design park, many creative design institutions set up by college graduates have created influence and brand.

　　 Recently, Anta Group released the ESG (Environment, Society and Governance) report for 2022. This is the eighth consecutive year that Anta Group has disclosed its practice and achievements in ESG and sustainable development. The report shows that Anta Group will absorb more than 17000 college graduates and young talents and provide 59000 direct jobs in 2022.

　　 Developing textile and garment industry is an important way to solve employment problems. In recent years, Xinjiang Kashi Maigaiti County has vigorously developed the textile and clothing industry, introduced large-scale textile and clothing enterprises, helped economic development, and led more people to stable employment. Zhu Ouping, chairman of Kashgar Furun Textile Technology Co., Ltd., said: "After preliminary preparation, the company has started production in the sizing workshop, and the second workshop is fully put into production in early July. After the production, the fabric distribution is about 30 million meters, the annual output value is about 150 million yuan, more than 200 people are employed, and the average salary of employees is not less than 3000 yuan per month."

　　 With the reduction of the demographic dividend, China's labor-intensive manufacturing industry will face employment pressure from the impact of uncertain factors such as the rising cost of production factors, the labor substitution effect caused by new technologies, and the persistent and repeated epidemic. However, it is worth noting that China's labor-intensive manufacturing industry still has advantages in attracting unskilled labor, and with the arrival of the digital economy era, labor-intensive manufacturing industry will stimulate new employment potential and create more high-quality employment opportunities and employment dividends in the process of digital and intelligent transformation and upgrading. This is not only conducive to the transformation and upgrading of China's labor-intensive manufacturing industry itself, but also significant to the stability and expansion of employment opportunities and employment methods in the new development stage. （ Ze Jie/Wen ）