Nandan receives national reward for stabilizing employment

Due to its intensive efforts in implementing policies and measures to encourage and support employment and entrepreneurship, the human resource and social security department of Nandan county, Hechi was awarded by the investigation and supervision team of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development with 2 million yuan ($303,027.83) in employment fund subsidies.

The Nandan human resources and social security department has set up special working groups to encourage villagers to work outside of the county. It has spent 197,000 yuan to organize chartered vehicles to transport a total of 11 groups, consisting of 753 migrant workers, to employment opportunities, of which 217 workers were from impoverished households.

A one-time employment subsidy for enterprises providing COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control materials, as well as business and trade distribution services have been issued, with a standard of 2,000 yuan per person. Subsidies of 14,000 yuan have been granted to the employment poverty alleviation workshops that resumed work and production before March 31, as well as those that employed impoverished workers before June 30.

Moreover, 151,200 masks were issued to 25 companies that resumed work and production. In addition, a phased relief policy was implemented to help reduce or exempt enterprises from social security fees, saving them 33.27 million yuan.

The county has increased the employment subsidy for the impoverished families in poverty alleviation workshops from 1,000 yuan per person per year to 2,000 yuan. It has currently built 48 poverty alleviation workshops, which have employed 3,796 people, of which 512 are registered as impoverished.

The county has also developed 141 poverty alleviation public welfare jobs, as well as launched online recruitment activities to promote employment and helped more than 3,500 people reach employment intention agreements. It has issued an entrepreneurial loan of 3.09 million yuan, and carried out 35 employment skills training courses for 1,713 people, of which 1,033 were impoverished.

The county has a total of 4,233 households with 21,694 impoverished people, including 10,096 laborers. At present, 9,884 people have found employment, marking that basically more than one person per household has found employment. As of the end of October this year, 18,312 people in 10,200 poverty-stricken households have found jobs outside the county, a year-on-year increase of 107.71 percent.