Companies encouraged to reward ability, diligence and high outputChinese State-owned enterprises should play a leading role in improving the treatment of skilled workers, especially highly skilled talent, a senior official said on Monday.On Thursday, the general offices of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and State Council jointly released a guideline calling for more incentives for skilled workers by raising their political status, incomes and social benefits.China has a working population of 776 million, of which only 165 million are skilled, and a mere 47 million are "highly skilled", according to Tang Tao, deputy minister of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security."That is a truly serious imbalance between demand and supply in the labor market," he said on Monday.The ministry attributed the shortage in the talent supply mainly to low income, unsatisfactory welfare benefits and poor social status associated with skilled positions."The State-owned enterprises, especially those directly under the central government, should take the lead in improving the treatment of technical workers," Tang said."We are now talking with the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission about that. In addition, we are communicating with the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, hoping that non-State-owned enterprises can increase skilled workers' benefits."According to the guideline, State-owned enterprises' gross payrolls should lean toward highly skilled workers, and average salary increases shouldn't be lower than those for administrative staff.According to Xinhua News Agency, in some job fairs in Guangdong and Fujian provinces, salaries as high as 20,000 yuan ($3,200) a month are on offer, but qualified technicians are simply not available.As for increasing all skilled workers' benefits, the guideline encouraged companies to establish salary systems that can reflect job value, personal ability and work performance. It also advised employers to subsidize complementary allowances for technicians.It called for companies to guarantee that workers with higher skills, greater diligence and greater output receive better rewards."Front-line skilled workers are fresh troops for the Made in China 2025 strategy," Tang said. "They can make high-quality products and provide good related services."The national strategy is characterized by a switch from low-end manufacturing to more value-added production, with a focus on emerging industries. That calls for more highly skilled industrial workers.Yan Jinghua, vice-president of All-China Federation of Trade Unions, thought well-qualified and adequate skilled workers had a positive effect on technical innovation."There were a total of 607,000 national patents obtained by workers around China from 2013 to 2017. And 15 technological achievements of front-line technicians have won the National Science and Technology Progress Awards in recent years," he said. create your own wristbandcolored silicone braceletscustom rubber wristbands canadaevent wristbands torontodual layer wristband
Supporters of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Tahrir square after presidential election results in Cairo on Monday. MOHAMED ABD EL GHANY / REUTERS Xi greets Sisi over re-election President Xi Jinping has sent a message to Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi on Monday congratulating him on his re-election. In the message, Xi said that he has kept close contact with Sisi in recent years, and that he is pleased to see that mutual political trust between the two countries has continued to deepen, bilateral pragmatic cooperation has kept advancing, and people-to-people and cultural exchanges have become more active. Xi said that China and Egypt enjoy a long-running friendship and he hoped that the Egyptian people, under Sisi's leadership, would score more important achievements in exploring the country's development path. Xi said that he highly values the development of China-Egypt relations and is willing to work together with Sisi to further enhance the comprehensive strategic partnership and bring more benefits to the peoples of both countries. On Monday, Sisi was officially announced as winner of the election with over 97 percent of the vote. Turnout was 41 percent from nearly 60 million eligible voters. In a brief victory speech broadcast on Monday evening on state television, Sisi sent greetings, appreciation, and respect to Egyptians. Hundreds of supporters took to the streets in Cairo and other cities, waving the Egyptian flag and singing patriotic songs to celebrate Sisi clinching another four years in power. Sisi's re-election was expected to lead to further stable economic and security conditions in the most populous Arab state after years of economic slowdown and terrorist challenges, Egyptian experts said. Generally, Sisi's re-election equals more stability and makes investors confident in the Egyptian market, said Rashad Abdo, an economics professor at Cairo University and also head of the Egyptian Forum for Economic and Strategic Studies. Abdo said Sisi's re-election will also bring better Egyptian foreign relations and reassure local and foreign investors. As you can see, the Egyptian Stock Exchange logically marked a rise after the president's re-election, he said. Sisi came to office in mid-2014, a year after he, as the then-army chief, led the ouster of former Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in response to mass protests. Since then, he has been working on national mega projects to develop the country's infrastructure and pave the way for further foreign investment. Abdo noted that before Sisi, the economic growth rate was 1.8 percent, while this year it stood at about 5 percent. Since Morsi's ouster in July 2013 and the ban of his Muslim Brotherhood group as a terrorist organization, Egypt has been suffering a wave of extremist attacks that have killed hundreds of policemen and soldiers, as well as civilians. On the other hand, Egyptian forces have killed hundreds of terrorists during the country's anti-terror war declared by Sisi. The re-election of Sisi represents the Egyptian people's belief in his keenness to fight terrorism and maintaining security and stability in the country to provide a suitable investment climate, said security expert Hamdy Bakhit, an Egyptian parliament member and a retired armed forces general. Xinhua, AFP and Reuters contributed to this story.
