On August 26, 2022, the offline job fair held in Chaoyang District, Beijing attracted many university graduates to participate. Photo by Li Muyi, reporter of Beijing News. Data shows that the number of college graduates in 2023 is expected to reach 11.58 million, an increase of 8

On August 26, 2022, an offline job fair held in Chaoyang District, Beijing attracted many university graduates to participate. Photo by Li Muyi, reporter of Beijing News. Data shows that the number of college graduates in 2023 is expected to reach 11.58 million, and has increased by 820,000 year-on-year compared with . Their job hunting and employment situation is eye-catching. According to reports, the Ministry of Education recently issued a work notice, deploying universities in various places to do everything possible to promote graduates' employment and entrepreneurship through multiple channels, simplify and optimize job hunting and employment procedures, including canceling the issuance of employment registration certificates from 2023, etc.

In fact, as early as May this year, General Office of the State Council issued a notice stating that from 2023, the " National Employment Registration Certificate for Undergraduate Graduates of Ordinary Colleges and Colleges" and "National Graduate Employment Registration Certificate" will no longer be issued, and the procedures for reissue employment registration certificates and reassigning to .

Now, the Ministry of Education once again emphasized the steady and orderly promotion of the cancellation of employment registration certificates, and clearly reiterated that from next year, the employment registration certificate will no longer be used as a necessary material for handling the recruitment, settlement, file acceptance and transfer of college graduates. This means that the employment registration certificate that has been implemented since 2000 will soon enter the past, and will also make the journey of graduates to seek jobs and employment smoother.

The so-called "employment registration certificate" was transformed from the " dispatch certificate " before 1999. At that time, college graduates were still planning to allocate, and the state package allocation was transitioned from partial package allocation. To this end, since 2000, the "National Employment Dispatch Report Certificate for Graduates of Ordinary Higher Education Colleges" and the "National Graduate Employment Dispatch Report Certificate for Graduates of Ordinary Higher Education Colleges" and the "National Graduate Employment Report Certificate for Graduates of Ordinary Higher Education Colleges" have been used, and it has a history of 22 years.

On August 26, 2022, at an offline job fair held in Chaoyang District, Beijing, university graduates submitted their resumes in front of the corporate booth. Photo by Li Muyi, reporter of Beijing News. The emergence of employment registration certificates has certain significance in the times, which means that the employment of college graduates has changed from "contracting allocation" to independent career choices and has begun to move towards marketization. However, it must also be admitted that whether it is registration, settlement, conversion to a regular hierarchy, or employment registration certificates required for professional title evaluation, calculation of service life and pension, it has its limitations since birth.

, especially in the current fully market-oriented employment environment, the employment registration certificate has long become the "extra certificate", which not only restricts the free flow of talents, increases employment costs, but also increases the teaching burden of colleges and universities, and even leads to frequent fraud of employment rates. The cancellation of inappropriate employment registration certificates has become the general trend and the will of the people, and it is also an inevitable requirement for social development and progress.

will hit a new high in terms of the scale of college graduation next year. Against the background of multiple factors such as the domestic epidemic, weak domestic and foreign economy, and increased employment pressure, achieving smooth employment of college graduates is not only related to the graduates' personal future and destiny, and the happiness of their families, but also affects the harmony and stability of society. To this end, the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China also pointed out that "strengthen the employment priority policy, improve the employment promotion mechanism, and promote high-quality and full employment."

In this realistic context, the Ministry of Education has prepared for the future, planned in advance, issued work notices in a timely manner, and made every effort to promote the cancellation of employment registration certificates. This not only meets the active implementation of the 20 "employment priority" requirements, cancels unnecessary certificates, improves the employment promotion mechanism, and makes the employment journey for graduates smoother, but is also a necessary practice for implementing the " deregulation, regulation and service " reform. Written by

/ Wu Ruizhu (staff)

editing / He Rui

proofreading / Wu Xingfa