Employment is a family matter, and even more so a national concern. The 14th issue of the "Qiushi" magazine, published on a certain date, carries an important article by President Xi Jinping titled "Promoting High-Quality and Full Employment." In this significant article, President Xi Jinping profoundly summarizes the achievements and experiences of employment work in the new era, analyzes the current employment situation and the prominent issues faced, and systematically expounds that promoting high-quality and full employment is the new orientation and mission of employment work in the new era and new journey.

Employment is the most fundamental aspect of people's livelihood, directly affecting the vital interests of the masses, the healthy development of the economy and society, and the long-term stability of the nation. The Communist Party of China has always attached great importance to this issue. Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, the Central Committee has consistently placed employment at the forefront of governance, strengthening employment-first policies, improving employment promotion mechanisms, and effectively responding to external pressures, internal difficulties, and especially the severe challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, the annual increase in urban employment has reached millions, the urban surveyed unemployment rate has remained at a low level, and relatively full employment has been achieved in a developing country with over a billion people, providing significant support for the improvement of people's livelihoods and economic development.

In this process, we continuously deepen our understanding of the laws governing employment work in the new era, accumulating many experiences, mainly including: adhering to the comprehensive leadership of the Party in employment work, insisting on employment as the foundation of people's livelihood, implementing a priority strategy for employment, relying on development to promote employment, combining the expansion of employment capacity with the improvement of employment quality, focusing on key groups in employment, promoting employment through entrepreneurship, creating a fair employment environment, building harmonious labor relations, and so on. These experiences are extremely valuable and must be long-term upheld and continuously enriched and developed.

The 20th National Congress of the Party scientifically grasped the new changes in the employment situation, responded to the new expectations of the people, and focused on steadily advancing high-quality development and the common prosperity of all people, making significant decisions to promote high-quality and full employment. At the macro level, high-quality and full employment mainly includes sufficient employment opportunities, fair employment environment, optimized employment structure, efficient matching of jobs and talents, and harmonious labor relations. At the micro level, high-quality and full employment is primarily manifested in workers not only having jobs but also enjoying stable employment, reasonable income, reliable security, and occupational safety. Of course, this is a high standard and a gradual process that must be pursued with utmost effort and within our means. It is essential to fully mobilize the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the people, guiding everyone to create a happy life through hard work and not to expect unearned gains or free rides.

Promoting high-quality and full employment is the new orientation and mission of employment work in the new era and new journey. We must adhere to the people-centered development philosophy, comprehensively implement the principles of workers' self-employment, market regulation of employment, government promotion of employment, and encouragement of entrepreneurship, with the promotion of high-quality development as the foundation, the implementation of a priority employment strategy as the guide, the strengthening of priority employment policies as the starting point, and the deepening of employment system and mechanism reforms as the driving force. We will continuously enhance the quality and reasonable growth of employment, constantly increase the sense of gain, happiness, and security among the broad masses of workers, and provide strong support for comprehensively advancing the construction of a powerful nation and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese-style modernization.