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Original title: Survey shows Xinjiang attaches great importance to ethnic minority employment and respects ethnic minority willingness to work
China News Service, Urumqi, October 20. The Xinjiang Development Research Center released the “Xinjiang Ethnic Minority Employment Research Report” (referred to as the “Research Report”) on the 20th. Relevant materials indicate that Xinjiang attaches great importance to minority employment ethnic minorities, respects the will to work of ethnic minorities and organizes employment based on service.
Recently, some think tanks in the West have published reports claiming that Xinjiang has “forced labor on a large scale”, and some politicians have also vigorously defended the “Xinjiang forced labor theory”. So does Xinjiang have what they call “forced labor”? With this question in mind, the Xinjiang Development Research Center invited relevant experts and scholars to investigate the employment situation of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.
The research team visited the Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture of Xinjiang Ili, Karamay City, Kashgar Prefecture, Hotan Prefecture, Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture, Aksu Prefecture, Shihezi City and more than 70 companies, rural labor cooperatives and individual entrepreneurs in places like Beijing and Tianjin. Point, discussed and interviewed more than 800 business managers, employees, freelancers and ethnic minorities, studied 26 government documents since 2016 and 48 related scholarly articles since 2005. A comprehensive analysis believes that Xinjiang and the inner provinces and cities, the departments Governments at all levels and relevant companies actively help ethnic minorities in Xinjiang to find work, fully guaranteeing the basic rights of people of all ethnic groups, such as labor and development rights, and people of all groups. ethnic groups work on a voluntary basis and choose jobs independently. , Free entrepreneurship, there is no so-called “large-scale forced labor phenomenon.” The arguments of some Western think tanks are incorrect, and the relevant arguments and bases are not scientific either.
The “Investigation Report” stated that governments at all levels in Xinjiang have established labor leadership groups to coordinate labor work. The research team analyzed the speeches of Xinjiang officials, government work reports, work plans and summaries for the past few years and found that “employment emphasis”, “employment expansion”, ” employment “and” surplus rural workers going to work “are frequent words. In recent years, the Xinjiang “Government Labor Report” has made separate arrangements for labor work each year.
According to the “Research Report”, government organization for jobless employment of ethnic minorities is always based on voluntariness, and people’s willingness to find employment is sought in advance, including areas of employment, types and industry positions and training needs. Once people sign up voluntarily, they will regain the skills necessary for the job. Training, such a workflow is clearly established and emphasized in government documents. For people who are unwilling to work for health or other reasons, fully respect their wishes and never force them to enroll in training.
According to the “Investigation Report”, the government organizes the employment procedures for people of all ethnic groups as follows: employment companies provide information about required positions and number of people, human resources and security departments social services are added and published publicly via the Internet, HR marketplace and other channels, and the village committee (community) Post the recruitment information on the village (community) public bulletin board. Village (community) committee staff go to the families of the unemployed to find out their job wishes and publish information on hiring. People voluntarily enroll in job training. After passing the training, they will work. The employment of people from ethnic minorities provides an organizational guarantee.
Every year, governments of all levels in Xinjiang invest a lot of money in the field of job training. According to statistics, from 2014 to 2019, Xinjiang organized a total of 6.957 million person-times of various skills trainings, including 2.325 million person-times in the four southern prefectures (Kashgar, Hotan, Aksu and Kizilsu Autonomous Prefecture Kirgiz). 379,400 people created 827,400 jobs, with an average of 75,900 entrepreneurs.
The “Investigation Report” stated that with the help of the government, many people from ethnic minorities have found satisfactory jobs. From 2014 to 2019, the rural labor surplus in Xinjiang went to work 16.57 million people-times, an average of 2.76 billion people-times per year, of which 10.07 million people-times were in southern Xinjiang, an average of 1.678 million person-times a year. (Finish)
