What they say

Editor's Note: The Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee invited five representatives from the human resources and social security sector to share stories about their efforts to secure people's employment and labor rights.

I've served in the employment sector for over 30 years and I never turn off my phone, so I can provide any possible help to job seekers anytime. We've helped over 100,000 people land jobs since 2004. As a grassroots official, my responsibility is to introduce and implement the State-level policy to benefit people. I always show this QR code to job hunters at job fairs to teach them how to find suitable vacancies.

Yu Yanhua, 52, deputy director of the Taobei district employment service bureau in Baicheng, Jilin province

I was under great pressure when I first took the post in 2016. However, I gained a strong sense of responsibility after migrant workers came to thank me for getting their unpaid wages back just three days after I turned up at the office. Every migrant worker deserves respect and I think it's our responsibility to protect them with faith and love.

Pan Jianlong, 47, leader of the labor security supervision detachment in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province

I've taken a temporary post at the labor office in Dingxi, Gansu province, since March 2017, and I'm very happy to see the once poverty-stricken place lifted out that difficult position thanks to the cooperation between the two provinces. In past four years, Fuzhou's human resources department has organized 230 job fairs in Dingxi, offering people there over 40,000 positions. Around 11,000 formerly impoverished people landed jobs in Fuzhou.

Bao Daorong, 43, deputy director of the employment center in Fuzhou, Fujian province

I worked in Chaotang village in Jiangxi's Hengfeng county from 2015 to 2018 to help the villagers there get out of poverty. The biggest problem I faced at the time was to win the villagers' trust. Then I did everything I could to bring them real benefits, for example, building a concrete road and make tap water available to them. Then I encouraged villagers to set up their own workshops to develop agricultural industries and helped them to find stable jobs to improve their financial condition.

Liu Fei, 38, department director at Jiangxi's employment and entrepreneurship center

Towns in our county are scattered in locations that have inconvenient transport, so I've decided to introduce the villagers to endowment insurance door-to-door rather than just giving them a phone call. I once encountered a senior villager who I called "fogy" in jest because every time I tried to persuade him to join the nation's insurance campaign, I got the answer "no". But I didn't give up, and told him every single detail of the policy and I'm very happy he finally agreed to join.

Jin Caihong, 35, director of the endowment insurance bureau in Xiaojin county, Aba Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture, Sichuan province