What inspiration does green employment bring?
Developing green energy-saving and environmentally friendly industries, promoting the construction of energy-saving and emission reduction projects and ecological restoration projects, strengthening the construction of environmental infrastructure, and creating jobs should be A good remedy to cope with the sharp increase in domestic employment pressure under the impact of the current financial crisis.
Affected by the international financial crisis, my country's employment situation is very severe. During this year's "Two Sessions" nationwide, some National People's Congress deputies and members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference loudly declared: "In response to the crisis, employment comes first. The top priority is to speed up the establishment of an employment assistance mechanism and effectively alleviate the employment problems of large groups."
Guarantee Employment has become an integral part of my country's response to the impact of the international financial crisis, ensuring people's livelihood and maintaining social stability. Under the background that the country regards ecological environment construction as one of the key points of "expanding domestic demand, maintaining growth, adjusting structure, and promoting development", environmental protection and related industries, as sunrise industries, will become key industries to attract employment. Energy conservation and emission reduction and restrictions on the development of "two high-voltage and one capital" industries will inevitably reduce the ability of related industries to absorb employment. However, environmental infrastructure construction and energy-saving green industries can create more green jobs and absorb the labor force that needs to be transferred.
According to statistics from the United Nations Environment Program, in the past 10 years, the number of employees directly engaged in environmental protection work has surged from 4.6 million to 18 million, while the number of employees indirectly serving environmental protection has increased from 10 million to 18 million. 55 million people. During this period, the waste recycling, treatment, processing and marketing sectors absorbed the fastest growth in employment, with an average annual growth rate of 25% to 30%. Therefore, many countries are optimistic about the development prospects of the environmental protection industry and will implement the "green employment" strategy as one of the important measures to ease their country's employment pressure.
It is an inevitable trend of social development to regard environmental protection as an important long-term means to eliminate poverty and create employment, and to make the national economy and social development move in the direction of scientific development and sustainable development. The new US President Obama plans to spend US$150 billion in the next 10 years to develop solar energy, wind energy and bioenergy, create 5 million green jobs, and establish the United States as a leader in the low-carbon economy. This is a typical example.
The Party Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to the current severe situation. The people-centered scientific outlook on development inevitably requires us to make overall considerations in promoting sustainable development, ensuring social stability, improving people's lives and protecting the ecological environment, taking into account all aspects and achieving an organic combination. This requires us to comprehensively consider various indicators such as economic growth, employment growth, energy conservation and emission reduction, so that our policies and investment arrangements can be comprehensively coordinated and maximized in these aspects. Only such government public investment , Only in this way can we provide long-term and stable employment opportunities and enable China's development to truly embark on the path of scientific development.
Currently, in response to changes in the domestic and international economic situation, my country's macroeconomic policies are undergoing major adjustments, which will further accelerate the transformation of the economic development model and vigorously adjust the industrial structure. We must shift from the pursuit of economic growth to the pursuit of structural changes. This is exactly the idea advocated by the Scientific Outlook on Development. Especially considering the resource and environmental costs paid for previous development, in the process of responding to the international financial crisis and promoting sound and rapid economic and social development, we must abandon the practice of sacrificing the environment for economic growth and follow the path of sustainable development. This not only It will promote the transformation and upgrading of the economic structure, make production and construction jobs gradually greener, and drive the rise of the environmental protection industry to provide people with more green employment opportunities.
It can be foreseen that ecological environment restoration projects and rural environmental infrastructure construction are great opportunities for my country to use work-for-relief to create jobs for the majority of migrant workers. United Nations research has also proven that the economic returns and labor employment benefits of investing in nature conservation or ecological infrastructure are much higher than those in traditional automobile manufacturing, steel, information and other sectors.
Investment in ecological environment restoration projects, rural environmental infrastructure construction and other fields is directly and closely related to the expansion of employment.
Environmental protection investment in energy conservation and emission reduction projects has expanded domestic demand. It will not only build a number of pollution control facilities, enhance pollution control capabilities, and provide conditions for improving environmental quality, but will also drive the development of related industries, expand labor demand in related industries, and effectively Alleviating the current employment pressure in our country.
Green employment has become an important topic of concern to many countries. Many countries around the world have seen the huge employment potential contained in green industries and have taken measures to develop green projects and stimulate green consumption to create more jobs. For example, in early January this year, Japan and South Korea respectively announced that they would invest huge amounts of money in green projects to create jobs and stimulate economic growth. Japan stated that their goal is to expand the green economy market, create 1 million new jobs, and implement a zero-interest loan policy for environmentally friendly companies. South Korea said it will invest US$38 billion in a series of domestic eco-friendly projects over the next four years (including green transportation networks, plans for 2 million green homes, and cleaning of South Korea's four major rivers), resulting in 960,000 new jobs. Employment Opportunities.
There is no doubt that environmental protection is of great significance to both the actual increase in employment opportunities and the direction of future development. It is exerting great potential and promoting role and has become an important issue throughout employment, construction, development and development. A main line of people’s livelihood.
Archimedes once said: Give me a fulcrum and I will move the earth. As a microcosm, green employment allows people to see that environmental protection is becoming the golden fulcrum to move the earth. (Zhang Yeliang)