Job growth fine, yet many other issues need to be addressed

In the Government Work Report presented to the national legislature on March 5, Premier Li Keqiang said the country will pursue an employment-first policy with full force. Which means that for the first time the employment-first policy has been elevated to the status of a macro policy.

The government and the Government Work Report both have always paid great attention to the employment issue, because employment influences social stability and is crucial for the success of the targeted poverty alleviation program, which the central leadership has attached high priority to in recent years.

This year's report mentions employment 30 times, the highest in recent years. No wonder the government has made stabilizing employment, which it advanced in the middle of 2018, the first among all its stabilization tasks.