The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs held a meeting to deploy efforts to normalize poverty prevention, poverty alleviation, and employment assistance.

On February 26, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs held a video conference on strengthening employment assistance to prevent people from returning to poverty and to avoid new poverty under normalized conditions, and on promoting comprehensive rural revitalization. Wang Xiaoping, Party Secretary of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and Minister, and Han Jun, Party Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and Minister, attended the meeting and delivered remarks. The meeting required that employment assistance policies be kept generally stable, that efforts be accelerated to establish and improve work mechanisms and a policy framework adapted to normalized assistance, that the “dual-wheel drive” of supporting both working out-of-town and employment nearby be adhered to, and that key tasks for normalized employment assistance be promptly and effectively carried out. It called for focusing on key assistance areas and key groups, leveraging mechanisms such as eastern-western cooperation, continuing to promote stable out-of-town employment, cultivating and strengthening county-level industries that benefit local residents, improving the capacity of assistance workshops and rural public welfare positions to absorb workers, doing a good job in cultivating rural artisans and building labor brands, expanding county-level employment opportunities through multiple channels, and working to improve the quality of employment for migrant workers. It also required that responsibilities for normalized employment assistance be tightened, that annual task and target management be continued, that coordination among departments be strengthened, that monitoring and coordination and scheduling be intensified, and that it be ensured that no large-scale return to poverty or new poverty occurs due to unemployment. (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs website)