With economic development and industrial upgrading, highly skilled personnel are in short supply in the labor market. 58 city data show that driven by the industrial economy, the demand for manufacturing labor in the second quarter of this year increased by 31% compared with the first quarter. At present, when policies encourage and advocate diverse employment concepts, high-end manufacturing has gradually become a new choice for young people to find jobs.

Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education and other eight departments jointly issued the “Vocational education integration of production and education to enhance the Action implementation plan (2023-2025)” proposed that by 2025, the national production and education integration pilot cities reached about 50, in the country to build more than 10,000 production and education integration enterprises. At the same time, many places in the country have organized vocational skills competitions, improved skills evaluation systems, and issued housing subsidies and other preferential policies to stimulate and attract highly skilled talents.

Skilled workers are scarce and demand for manufacturing jobs is rising

As emerging technologies such as big data, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things accelerate their integration and penetration into the industrial field, the manufacturing industry has ushered in a new wave of change, and there is a greater thirst for high-skill and composite talents.

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According to the implementation Plan of the “Skills China Action”, during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, China will add more than 40 million skilled personnel, and the proportion of skilled personnel in employment will reach 30%. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Party proposed to “improve the lifelong vocational skills training system and promote the solution of structural employment contradictions.” Relevant departments frequently introduce policies, through the deep integration of production and education, job skills improvement training, increase recognition of outstanding high-skilled talents and other measures, enhance the professional identity of skilled talents, and broaden the employment choices of young people.

In fact, the manufacturing industry is also creating a large number of jobs, and various subsectors are generally facing a shortage of talent. 58.com data show that in the second quarter of this year, the number of new manufacturing jobs posted rose 31 percent from the previous quarter. From the perspective of the age distribution of recruiters, young people are still the main force in the job market, and the employment demand of 19-25 years old and 25-35 years old has increased.

With the recovery of consumption, the life service industry, as a window industry, has also released more labor demand. The data show that the demand for chefs, waiters and other catering jobs is rising; In addition, the logistics industry continues to pick up, the number of newly released positions for freight drivers in the second quarter rose by 40% quarter-on-quarter, the number of newly released positions for sorters rose by 21% quarter-on-quarter, and the recruitment heat continues to rise.