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Guangming Daily reporter Qiu Wei Hu Xiaojun Lu Jian
"If you have money, go home for the New Year". However, this year’s Spring Festival is unusual, and celebrating the New Year on the spot has become a new initiative. A few days ago, seven departments, including the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, issued a notice to launch a nationwide special campaign of "Welcome the Spring Festival in send warm and Stay at Work" from January 21st to the end of March, encouraging and guiding migrant workers and other migrant workers to stay in their places of employment and feel at ease for the New Year.
Short videos convey blessings to let family members "reunite online" across time and space; The new year’s red envelope added on the salary card sends congratulations and wishes; Cultural custom activities enter the community, so that foreigners can experience the familiar cultural flavor of their hometown; Various forms of consumer vouchers and travel vouchers convey the sincerity and surprise of local governments’ desire to "stay". Celebrating the New Year on the spot, the "Year" has a stronger flavor and the warmth remains unchanged.
A family of textile workers in Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province took a family photo and prepared to send it back to their hometown. Xinhua news agency
1. Give "vaccination" to "rework difficulties"
Why do you encourage Chinese New Year on the spot? Epidemic prevention and control is of course the first reason.
For many people, the Spring Festival in 2021 may be different. The domestic epidemic situation presents a situation of multi-point scattering and local aggregation, and the task of "external defense input and internal defense rebound" is still arduous. The low temperature in winter this year, and now it is the coldest season of the year, is conducive to the survival of Covid-19.
Zhao Wen, deputy director of the Population Economics Research Office of the Institute of Population and Labor Economics of China Academy of Social Sciences, said that reducing the flow of people can effectively reduce the spread of the epidemic. Therefore, celebrating the New Year on the spot has become an "option" to deal with the epidemic in the New Year of the Ox, and its positive significance for the whole society is self-evident. Reducing large-scale population movement can not only control the risk of epidemic spread, but also make the resumption of work after the holiday smoother. "It may be a good option to celebrate the New Year on the spot and wait for the epidemic to pass, and the government will organize enterprises to make up holidays in an orderly manner."
"It’s better to stay in the Soviet Union and earn four or five thousand more than returning home for fourteen days!" "Going home is an adventure, and the wallet will be flat! If you stay in the company for the New Year, your family will not be reduced! " … … In many parts of the country, creative slogans show full sincerity.
"Employees who are willing to stay for the New Year can enjoy double wages in February and have the opportunity to win the Spring Festival attendance award in 500 yuan." In Zhejiang, Zhuji Black Cat God Daily Chemical Co., Ltd. issued a series of incentive measures to attract employees from other provinces to stay in the company for the New Year, which received a positive response, and 80% of the employees planned to "not leave".
A few days ago, Digital 100 Data Research Institute conducted a survey on "celebrating the New Year on the spot". As many as 76% of the respondents said that they would "consider it", 17% said that they would "not consider it and go home for the New Year", and 7% said "it’s hard to say".
The Federation of Trade Unions of Tangqi Town, Yuhang District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province launched an activity with the theme of "caring for employees and staying in Zhejiang". Xinhua news agency
Recall that after the Spring Festival last year, epidemic factors made it difficult to rework, and many factories and enterprises resumed work slowly. Moreover, in recent years, the situation of "labor shortage" has become more and more common around the Spring Festival, and many enterprises also hope to "take precautions" for employees to rework after this year’s holiday.
"After the Spring Festival last year, when many enterprises resumed production, even if employees were in place, some enterprises in the middle and lower reaches of the industrial chain were in a dilemma because the industrial chain could not be fully connected. When the epidemic was serious last year, the major labor provinces in the eastern coastal areas did a lot of work to resume work, including chartered cars and special trains, but 14 days of isolation was still inevitable, and the time cost and economic cost were not low. " Zhao Wen said.
"The benefits brought by the local New Year to the whole society are obvious." Zhao Wen said that from a small perspective, in some areas with good economy, many residents and workers of businesses and enterprises hope to continue to operate during the Spring Festival holiday and form an atmosphere. From a big perspective, stabilizing the industrial chain supply chain and keeping the national economy running at a high level can try to recover the losses caused by last year’s epidemic. From the risk point of view, once the epidemic spread on a large scale due to large-scale personnel flow, the losses caused are particularly huge.
To this end, in order to advocate the local New Year, many places across the country have introduced reward systems. Distribute "red envelopes for staying at work", improve dining conditions, arrange cultural tourism activities, organize training for employees staying at work, and visit their families in their hometown … … A few days ago, the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Economic and Information and the Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security jointly issued the Notice on Encouraging Employees to Keep Stable Production to Ensure High-quality Economy, and issued a series of policies and measures to encourage local and enterprises to keep employees and stabilize production during the Spring Festival to ensure smooth supply chain of industrial chain and promote high-quality economy.
Liu Fan, an associate professor at the School of Economics, China Academy of Social Sciences, believes that celebrating the New Year on the spot is related to personal safety and health, and it is also related to the overall situation of national epidemic prevention. Objectively speaking, celebrating the New Year on the spot has a significant external positive effect, that is to say, this kind of behavior is self-serving and beneficial to the people in the context of the epidemic, which is conducive to enhancing public interests and social welfare. The government should give subsidies, do a good job of protection, and make classified policies to make celebrating the New Year on the spot a conscious action and rational choice of the public. Many local governments plan to distribute a series of benefits for celebrating the New Year on the spot, such as "post red envelopes", "flexible vacations" and "free local tours", so that such "warm policies" can win the hearts of the people.
After Zhang Weipeng, a takeaway rider in Beijing, was vaccinated, he was more at ease in staying in Beijing for the New Year. Xinhua news agency
2. On-site Spring Festival "warm" annual taste service "foot"
On-site Chinese New Year, you can still live a festive and lively life. It is understood that a large wave of various forms and rich content of cultural activities to welcome the Spring Festival will soon be launched in various places.
There are about 1,100 employees from other provinces working in enterprises in suichuan county Park, Jiangxi Province. In the face of the upcoming Spring Festival, in addition to improving the standard and quality of food, distributing holiday packages and calculating overtime pay according to regulations, local businesses, parks and other departments have also joined forces with radio and television network companies to prepare a "delicious" spiritual "feast" for these foreign guests in advance, so that they can stay at ease.
There are still more than 20 days before the Spring Festival. The Radio and Television Network Company has prepared cultural "food" for the enterprises in the park early. Apart from sending 80 basic TV programs, it also gives away 60 sets of entertainment programs with local characteristics free of charge, covering variety, drama, rule of law, health and so on. The content is very rich.
"Considering that employees come from all over the world, with different languages, customs and appreciation levels, we have differentiated the layout of the program. For example, the opera channel considers dialects and operas, including Henan Bangzi and Suzhou Pingtan. Employees in the north prefer language programs, and those in the south who love local operas can be satisfied. " Liu Liping, head of the radio and television network company, introduced.
Xie Bin, assistant general manager of Tongming Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., comes from Loudi, Hunan Province. He is a fan of Huagu Opera and is very satisfied with the arrangement of the program. He said, "Being a stranger in a foreign land, I miss my family twice every holiday. On this special day during the Spring Festival, hearing the familiar melody on the screen can also solve the homesickness! "
Fujian Federation of Trade Unions launched an "eight-in-one" warm-hearted service consisting of an initiative, a consultation, a condolence, a batch of new year’s goods, a dinner, a trip to Zhou Bianyou, a set of health services and a series of cultural and sports activities; Chengdu, Sichuan, launched the online interactive activity of "Perfect and Happy", which is suitable for the whole family to enjoy the Spring Festival culture in the "cloud"; Some communities in Beijing provide residents with affordable services such as new year’s goods visits, traditional cultural performances, and sending Chinese knots with couplets … … The full "Year" flavor activities have upgraded the local New Year fun and surprises.
Children in kindergartens in Changxing County, Zhejiang Province are sticking up window grilles for the Spring Festival. Xinhua news agency
"Many migrant workers are not used to spending the New Year at their place of work. Let them stay for the New Year with peace of mind, and the cultural activities and safeguard measures of local governments should be in place in time. " Zhao Wen believes that, first, businesses should be encouraged not to stop business during the Spring Festival, so that foreigners can have something to do and land to play. Second, we should arrange cultural and recreational activities during the Spring Festival as early as possible to create a warm atmosphere for the Spring Festival on the spot. Third, we should actively care for the left-behind elderly and children in their hometown for the New Year, and do a good job of appeasement, so that they can have a good year without more relatives to accompany them, so that family members abroad can stay at ease. Fourth, it is necessary to plan scientifically to ensure the supply of materials during the holiday season, so as to facilitate enterprises to make plans for off-peak holidays during the Spring Festival and seize the opportunity to seize the construction period. Fifth, it is necessary to coordinate enterprises and employees to arrange compensatory leave to visit relatives at an appropriate time after the holiday. Sixth, we should help enterprises cooperate with the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain and guide enterprises to scientifically formulate production plans before and after the Spring Festival. Seventh, we should increase policy support, reduce the labor cost of enterprises during the Spring Festival, and arrange funds to support key enterprises to recruit workers and stabilize posts and stabilize production. "These measures are necessary to stabilize the security of the post ‘ Red envelope ’ It is necessary for local government departments to strengthen information sharing and coordination of measures to do a good job in helping enterprises. "
Liu Rensheng, a native of Jinshi Township, Suichuan, Jiangxi Province, plans to stay in Quanzhou, Fujian for the New Year. Quanzhou recently proposed that qualified non-Quanzhou enterprise trade union members can apply for New Year’s red envelopes online according to the 200 yuan standard for each person after examination and confirmation, and be given appropriate holiday subsidies, so that they can take buses for free and get free tickets for state-owned A-level tourist attractions. For the employees of non-Quanzhou poor families, each household will be given a one-time subsidy to 1000 yuan.
"It is necessary to mobilize social forces, attach importance to humanistic care, and relieve the worries of those who celebrate the New Year on the spot." Liu Fan said that going home for the New Year is not only a traditional custom, but also a rare opportunity for family reunion. Governments at all levels should attach great importance to humanistic care, mobilize social voluntary forces, do a good job in taking care of the lives of special groups such as left-behind elderly people and children, and let those who stay in a foreign land for the New Year feel at ease.
3. Keep people with your heart and make a foreign land your hometown.
A few days ago, Changshu New Citizen Affairs Center of Jiangsu Province issued a notice to increase the bonus points for new citizen points. In the new citizen points enrollment in 2021, every new citizen applicant who "spends the holidays in Changshu and does not return home during the Spring Festival" will be given extra points, with a score of 30 points.
As soon as the policy was introduced, it caused widespread heated discussion. For a stranger in a city, it is the key to test whether a city can really warm people’s hearts whether to celebrate the New Year on the spot as a guest or as a family member or host.
At present, it is a trend for migrant workers to choose employment nearby. Under the influence of the epidemic, this situation was particularly prominent last year. According to the calculation of the Population Institute of China Academy of Social Sciences and the statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, in 2020, there were more than 17 million migrant workers who chose to work in the local area.
How a city can retain "migrant workers" for a long time needs not only "red envelopes", but also the "tolerance" of the city. At present, the accidental initiative to celebrate the New Year on the spot due to the epidemic may become a window for many cities to show their future appeal. Lowering the threshold of settlement and balancing public services … … A city needs to bring the flavor of home to those "outsiders" and blow away the homesickness of "strangers" with the warmth of home.
"Can migrant workers turn their backs on customers and regard the city as their home? This requires the joint efforts of migrant workers and the city. First of all, government departments and enterprises should ensure the income of migrant workers during the holiday season. Secondly, to ensure that migrant workers’ housing is guaranteed, it will be difficult to keep them if they are allowed to spend a large sum of money saved by hard work for one year to pay rent. Finally, the enterprises, communities and relevant departments where migrant workers live should actively create a home atmosphere for migrant workers. Some migrant workers didn’t plan to spend the New Year in the city, so they may not be well prepared in many aspects. Units and communities should really help migrant workers solve some practical problems that may be encountered during the New Year in the city. Only in this way can migrant workers really live a peaceful year in the city with the master’s mentality. Perhaps starting from the Spring Festival this year, the city has become the real home of migrant workers. " Liu Junsheng, director of the Salary Research Office of the Chinese Academy of Labor and Social Security, said.
Zhao Wen said that in the long run, China is in the middle stage of urbanization, and more and more migrant workers will settle there in the future. "As a foreigner, I have experienced the changes during the Spring Festival in Beijing in the past ten years, and more and more people are staying in Beijing for the New Year. It can be said that the local New Year will become a trend. "
The "labor shortage" during the Spring Festival has become a normal phenomenon, and returning home early during the epidemic period will undoubtedly make the "labor shortage" worse. "Solve ‘ Labor shortage ’ It is necessary to treat both the symptoms and the root causes. " Liu Fan pointed out that in the short term, it is an emergency measure for enterprises to improve the welfare of employees left behind during the Spring Festival, establish a "short-term" reserve pool, and advocate local New Year. In the long run, based on the integrated development of urban and rural areas, it is a long-term solution to further promote the reform of the urban-rural dual system such as household registration, housing, medical care and enrollment, so that the employment place can truly become the habitual residence and emotional belonging of the employed.
