
Core Insights - The Guangzhou Blue Book highlights the city's employment strategies and goals for 2024, focusing on enhancing grassroots employment services and achieving significant job creation [1] Employment Strategies - In 2024, Guangzhou will improve its grassroots employment service network, which includes "community public employment and entrepreneurship services, employment stations, gig market services, and family service initiatives" [1] - The city aims to recognize 63 high-quality employment communities and 57 high-quality employment villages, along with establishing 342 employment stations [1] Job Creation and Market Dynamics - Guangzhou plans to host 203 specialized recruitment fairs for new employment forms (gig and flexible jobs) [1] - The city targets to create 343,300 new urban jobs, maintaining its position as the top in the province [1] - The job vacancy to job seeker ratio for each quarter in 2024 is projected to be 1.34, 0.95, 0.98, and 0.97, with an annual average of 1.06, indicating a balanced employment supply and demand [1] Entrepreneurship Support - The city will focus on reducing financing and entrepreneurial costs, improving the entrepreneurial environment, and stabilizing job positions [1] - Guangzhou will continue to develop a unique entrepreneurial guarantee loan system and support mechanisms, promoting loan policies through public employment and entrepreneurship service institutions [1] - The number of supported entrepreneurs and jobs created through entrepreneurship is expected to reach 51,800 and 124,600 respectively, maintaining a positive trend [1]