Not long ago, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security released the ranking of the 100 occupations in the second quarter of 2021 that are more than the “most needed jobs” in the country. Among the 30 newly ranked occupations, nearly half are related to manufacturing, information transmission and other industries, and the shortage of occupations such as “machine repair fitters” and “stamping workers” is increasing. Prior to this, a platform released data that 580,000 new riders were added in two months during the epidemic, 40% of which came from manufacturing workers. The two messages are compared to one, which has triggered hot discussion, and many netizens have issued the question of “who will be a worker in the future”.

Different times, people are interested in different careers. Once upon a time, working in a factory and wearing blue overalls was the dream of many young people. Today, young people receive more and more information, and their career views are more and more diversified. They no longer settle for the stable factory life of their parents, but tend to choose new industries with higher freedom and income. The outbreak of the new coronavirus epidemic last year has broken people’s understanding of the relative stability of the manufacturing industry and intensified the movement of labor between industries.

In recent years, new industries and new forms of business such as takeout, express delivery, taxi hailing, and live broadcasting have developed rapidly, which has played a positive role in attracting employment and forced the traditional manufacturing industry to accelerate its transformation and upgrading. This is the result of free movement and choice in the Labour market. For individuals, in the face of relatively high cost-effective positions, young people choose to join them, it is a rational choice. If this can realize the value of life, is it not a blessing?

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The transfer of labor between industries needs to be faced squarely, but the importance of manufacturing industry should be fully conscious. The manufacturing industry is the foundation of the country and the foundation of a strong country, and we must do a good job in the manufacturing industry to grasp the real economy. Throughout the history of industrial developed countries, manufacturing industry occupies a very important position in their national economy.

As a country with the most complete industrial categories in the world, China is in the stage of moving from a manufacturing power to a manufacturing power. However, the contradiction between supply and demand of industry, especially manufacturing, and skilled personnel is becoming increasingly prominent. Nowadays, it has become a fact that there are fewer skilled workers and fewer high-skilled talents in China, and the proportion of skilled workers is about 20%, and the proportion of high-skilled talents is about 6%. Coupled with the reduced willingness of young people to work as workers, they do not pay attention to improving professional skills, which is objectively not conducive to the alleviation of the problem of “recruitment difficulties”.

The team of skilled workers is an important foundation for supporting made in China and created in China. Both quantitatively and qualitatively, people are still at the heart of the problem. Young people accept new things fast, strong learning ability, good at innovation and creation, dare to be the first. In the new era, China’s manufacturing calls for more young people to take the road of skills and skills to serve the country, and China’s creation also needs more and more highly skilled talents and great artisans.

To encourage more young people to become craftsmen, we must do a good job in basic, institutional and supportive work. The government, enterprises and all parties in society should make efforts to create favorable conditions for their growth and talents. From the current point of view, the key is to improve the treatment, status and professional honor of workers, and improve the vocational skills training system and incentive mechanism, so that front-line workers are more decent and dignified, so that young people have a sense of gain and upward channels, and help them to reflect value and show style with their skills.

At the first national vocational skills competition held at the end of last year, the average age of 2,557 participants was only 21.8 years old, and the “post-90s” accounted for 90%. They are full of vigor, and let the audience appreciate the beauty of the workers and the heart of the craftsmen with their superb skills. We believe that only when more young people become skilled craftsmen through their own efforts can they gather the powerful force of China’s manufacturing industry to flourish and China’s manufacturing industry can have a bright future.