The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security recently announced the first list of grassroots social management and public service positions, in order to guide localities in encouraging and guiding college graduates to work at the grassroots level.
So, what exactly are these grassroots social management and public service positions? What preferential policies can college graduates enjoy when working at the front lines of urban and rural areas?
Relevant officials from the Employment Promotion Department of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security gave an exclusive interview with Xinhua News Agency on June 6th, providing answers and indicating that better conditions will be created for college graduates to work at the grassroots level in both urban and rural areas.
What are grassroots social management and public service positions?
According to this official, the batch of grassroots social management and public service positions announced is divided into nine categories with fifty types. Specifically:
- Grassroots human resources and social security management: The main tasks involve managing and serving public employment services, social security, labor relations coordination, labor inspection, and related affairs at the street (township), community (village) levels. Positions include labor security assistants, human resources development assistants, labor relations coordinators, and labor inspection assistants.
- Grassroots agricultural services: The main tasks involve providing public services such as agriculture and poverty alleviation in rural grassroots areas. Positions include village secretary (director) assistant, new rural construction guidance, agricultural technology promotion services, agricultural information consulting, rural science popularization services, agricultural technology guidance, rural poverty alleviation development, etc.
- Grassroots medical and health services: The main tasks involve auxiliary service work in medical care, health, healthcare, and epidemic prevention at township-level, village (community)-level medical and health institutions, health epidemic prevention institutions, family planning service institutions, etc. Positions include rural medical and health auxiliary services, grassroots family planning service assistants, rural health center nursing services, rural (community) public health supervision assistants, rural (community) epidemic prevention assistants, rural (community) maternal and child health care, community nurses, community health services, etc.
- Grassroots cultural and scientific services: The main tasks involve providing residents with cultural, scientific, and sports public welfare services at the township (street), village (community) levels. Positions include rural (community) cultural services, rural (community) cultural room management, rural (community) cultural propaganda, rural (community) scientific services, rural (community) sports services, etc.
- Grassroots legal services: The main tasks involve providing residents with services such as legal education and civil mediation at the township (street), village (community) levels. Positions include judicial assistants, legal education publicity, civil mediation assistants, etc.
- Grassroots civil affairs, elderly care, childcare, and disability assistance services: The main tasks involve providing residents with services such as social work assistants, elderly care, old-age care, childcare, and disability assistance at the township (street), village (community) levels, funded by the government. Positions include civil affairs assistants, community elderly (assistance) services, community childcare services, community home-based elderly care services, community disability assistance services, etc.
- Grassroots municipal management: The main tasks involve auxiliary management work in strengthening urban public utilities and public affairs management at the township (street), village (community) levels. Positions include traffic control assistants, fire safety assistants, environmental protection assistants, urban planning assistants, market assistants, migrant population assistants, public security maintenance assistants, etc.
- Grassroots public environment and facility management and maintenance: The main tasks involve managing, maintaining, cleaning, and greening public facilities and equipment at the township (street), village (community) levels. Positions include rural road maintenance, rural water conservancy facilities maintenance, low-rent housing supporting facilities maintenance, community (village) public environment greening, community public facilities maintenance, community (village) public health cleaning, etc.
- Others: Mainly refers to other grassroots social management and public service positions developed by localities. Positions include community director assistants, low-income guarantee assistants, disabled work assistants, community correction assistants, etc., as well as logistics service positions in grassroots government agencies and enterprises.
Four Preferential Policies Encourage Employment at Urban and Rural Grassroots Levels
Working at the front lines of urban and rural areas not only achieves employment but also provides training opportunities. To encourage college graduates to participate in the construction of a socialist new countryside, urban community construction, and military enlistment, the government has proposed four specific incentive policies:
- Grassroots social management and public service position employment subsidy policy. This involves two subsidy policies: one is that college graduates who work in rural grassroots and urban communities engaged in social management and public services, and meet the conditions for public interest job employment under public interest job employment, will be given social insurance subsidies and public interest job subsidies according to current national employment promotion policies. Two is that college graduates who work in other social management and public service positions in rural grassroots and urban communities will be given salary or living subsidies, and will participate in relevant social insurances as per regulations.
- Tuition and student loan compensation policy. For college graduates who work in rural grassroots areas below the county level in central and western regions and remote and arduous areas, and fulfill certain service terms, as well as those who enlist as conscripts, corresponding tuition and student loan compensations will be implemented.
- Recruitment and selection preference policy. College graduates with grassroots experience will be given priority during graduate school admissions and public institution recruitment. In the recruitment of civil servants at the prefecture-level city and above party and government organs, the proportion of their recruitment will be further expanded.
- Life subsidies for graduates participating in special projects aimed at grassroots employment, and participation in relevant social insurances. Corresponding natural vacancy positions should all hire college graduates who remain employed locally after the project ends.
Timely introduction of new position directories
Relevant officials from the Employment Promotion Department of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security stated that the Ministry will continue to collect and organize other grassroots social management and public service positions, and introduce new position directories at appropriate times.
The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security requires that localities further strengthen coordination and cooperation with relevant departments, combine with local realities, and quickly formulate and implement local measures to promote college graduates' employment in grassroots social management and public service positions in urban and rural areas, implementing relevant employment support policies.
Localities need to promptly develop a batch of grassroots social management and public service positions suitable for college graduates, and deliver these positions into campuses and directly to college graduates through various channels such as the internet, newspapers, and specialized recommendation events, guiding college graduates to actively participate. Priority recommendations should be given to disadvantaged graduates.
In addition, localities may adjust, enrich, and improve the descriptions of work fields, main work content, and primary position names in the "Position Directory" based on local actual situations, developing grassroots social management and public service position directories suitable for their localities, to better promote grassroots employment work for local college graduates.