Strengthening Party Building among New Employment Groups from Three Dimensions

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “We must pay close attention to the development of new forms of business, adhere to combining online and offline approaches, and do a good job in guiding the thinking and gathering services for new employment groups.” [1]1 This quotation is from a speech by Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, emphasizing attention to the development of new forms of business and the guidance of new employment groups. In recent years, new forms of business represented by the platform economy have flourished, gathering a large number of new employment groups, such as couriers, food delivery riders, and ride-hailing drivers, who are mainly engaged in flexible employment. These groups are characterized by high flexibility and high mobility, and they constitute an important front for primary-level Party building. Strengthening Party building among new employment groups is of great significance for uniting and rallying the vast number of practitioners in emerging fields.

习近平总书记强调：“要高度关注新业态发展，坚持网上网下结合，做好新就业群体的思想引导和凝聚服务工作。”近年来，以平台经济为代表的新业态蓬勃兴起，聚集了快递员、外卖配送员、网约车司机等大量以灵活就业为主体的新就业群体。这些群体具有灵活性强、流动性高的特点，是基层党建的重要阵地，加强新就业群体党的建设，对于团结凝聚新兴领域广大从业人员具有重要意义。

Take a rigorous Party organizational system as the foundation. A rigorous organizational system is a powerful advantage of our Party. The Party’s overall leadership and all of the Party’s work must be realized through a strong Party organizational system. Accurately grasp the number of Party members among new employment groups. Compared with the highly organized unit system, new employment groups are mainly engaged in non-organized employment, exhibiting characteristics of cross-regional, cross-spatial, and mobile features. An accurate and clear baseline is the foundation for doing a good job in Party building among new employment groups. It is necessary to establish and improve a dynamic screening mechanism for Party members among new employment groups, accurately grasping the number of Party members among new employment groups through precise analysis of big data platforms in industry departments, on-site visits and screenings by relevant department staff, and other methods. Establish a systematic concept, break down data barriers, and establish and improve mechanisms for sharing resources such as data and information on Party members among new employment groups across relevant fields and departments. Establish databases for Party members among new employment groups by field, industry, and department, and update them dynamically in a timely manner. Encourage “pocket Party members” and “invisible Party members” [2]2 “Pocket Party members” and “invisible Party members” refer to Party members who do not openly reveal their Party membership or have not formally registered with a Party organization, often due to mobility or organizational gaps. among new employment groups to voluntarily reveal their identities, and regularly compare them with information in the intra-Party information statistics system of the Party organization department at the same level, to ensure the accuracy of data on Party members among new employment groups, laying the foundation for doing a good job in the education and management of Party members among new employment groups and in Party organization building. Expand the Party’s organizational coverage and work coverage. Facing the characteristics of rapid business expansion, diverse organizational structure changes, and continuous layout of outlets and stations in new-form business enterprises, it is necessary to continuously expand the Party’s organizational coverage and work coverage. Persist in the regular establishment of Party organizations among new employment groups, and continuously increase the coverage rate of Party organizations among new employment groups. Focus on building strong Party organizations in platform enterprises, combining the coverage and establishment of Party organizations with the business chains of new-form business enterprises, and extending the coverage of Party organizations among new employment groups to the enterprises’ business segments, branches, and project teams. Achieve the goal that wherever the business of new-form business enterprises is laid out, Party organizations among new employment groups should be established; wherever Party members among new employment groups move, the Party organization’s care and concern work should follow. Actively innovate management systems, effectively gather the overall synergy of Party building work among new employment groups, continuously enhance the mass organizational capacity and social appeal of Party organizations among new employment groups, and improve and perfect the Party building work management mechanism that combines vertical and horizontal coordination and links upper and lower levels. According to the principle of “one policy for one industry,” carry out the centralized establishment and management of Party organizations for groups such as couriers, food delivery riders, and ride-hailing drivers by layer and category. Implement a “spark plan” [3]3 The “spark plan” is a metaphor for a program to recruit and develop new Party members among new employment groups, aiming to create a ripple effect where one new member inspires others. for developing Party members among new employment groups. For some outstanding individuals among new employment groups, actively encourage them to join the Party organization, achieving the goal of developing one to drive a group. Select and strengthen the allocation of Party affairs workers. Focus on selecting enterprise management personnel with strong political integrity, high competence, and a willingness to contribute to serve as secretaries of Party branches among new employment groups. Regularly carry out special training on how to conduct Party building work among new employment groups and how to be a qualified Party branch secretary among new employment groups, to enhance the ability and quality of Party branch secretaries among new employment groups in grasping Party building work. Actively explore methods such as assigning full-time Party affairs workers among new employment groups and selecting Party building instructors, to avoid falling into the misunderstanding of “two separate skins” [4]4 “Two separate skins” is a Chinese political idiom describing a situation where Party building work and practical business operations are disconnected or not integrated. between Party building and business among new employment groups. By grasping Party building to rally people, thereby improving business capabilities and levels, continuously enhance the appeal of Party building among new employment groups.

以严密党组织体系作为基础。严密的组织体系，是我们党的强大优势。党的全面领导、党的全部工作要靠党的坚强组织体系去实现。精准掌握新就业群体党员数量。与高度组织化的单位制相比，新就业群体主要以非组织化的就业为主，呈现出跨区域、跨空间和流动性的特征。准确清晰的底数是做好新就业群体党建的基础。要建立完善新就业群体党员动态摸排机制，通过行业部门大数据平台精准分析，相关部门工作人员实地走访摸排等方式，精准掌握新就业群体党员数量。树立系统观念，打破数据壁垒，建立完善相关领域和部门新就业群体党员数据、信息等资源共享机制。分领域、分行业、分部门建立新就业群体党员数据库并及时进行动态更新，鼓励新就业群体中的“口袋党员”“隐身党员”主动亮明身份，定期与本级党委组织部门党内信息统计系统中的信息进行比对，确保新就业群体党员数据精准，为做好新就业群体党员教育管理和党组织建设奠定基础。扩大党的组织覆盖和工作覆盖。面对新业态企业业务拓展快速，组织架构变化多样、网点站点持续布局等特点，要不断扩大党的组织覆盖和工作覆盖。坚持对新就业群体党组织常态化组建，不断提升新就业群体党组织覆盖率。注重建强平台企业党组织，将党组织的覆盖和组建与新业态企业的业务链条相结合，把新就业群体党组织覆盖到企业的业务板块、分支机构、项目团队。实现新业态企业业务布局到哪里，新就业群体党组织就要组建到哪里，新就业群体党员流动到哪里，党组织关心关爱工作就要跟进到哪里的目标。积极创新管理体制，有效凝聚新就业群体党建工作整体合力，不断提升新就业群体党组织的群众组织力和社会号召力，健全完善条块结合、上下联动的党建工作管理机制。按照一业一策，分层分类抓好快递员、外卖配送员、网约车司机等群体党组织的集中组建和管理。开展新就业群体中发展党员的“火种计划”，对于一些表现优秀的新就业群体，积极鼓励加入党组织，实现发展一个带动一片的目标。选优配强党务工作者。注重选拔政治过硬、本领高强、善于奉献的企业管理人员担任新就业群体党支部书记。定期开展新就业群体党建工作怎么干、合格的新就业群体党支部书记如何做等专题培训，提升新就业群体党支部书记抓好党建工作的能力和素质。努力探索配备新就业群体专职党务工作者、选派党建指导员等方式，避免陷入新就业群体党建和业务“两张皮”的误区，通过抓党建凝聚人心，进而提高业务能力和水平，持续提升新就业群体党建吸引力。

Enhance the cohesion of Party organizations. The results of the Ninth National Survey on the Status of the National Workforce show that the number of workers in new forms of employment nationwide, including truck drivers, ride-hailing drivers, couriers, and food delivery riders, has reached 84 million. [5]5 The Ninth National Survey on the Status of the National Workforce is a large-scale survey conducted by the All-China Federation of Trade Unions to assess the conditions of China’s workforce, including new forms of employment. Compared with other groups, new employment groups are characterized by flexible employment methods, weak rights protection, a weak sense of belonging, and low social recognition. Strengthen care and concern for new employment groups, and enhance the cohesion and centripetal force of Party organizations among new employment groups. Persist in combining ideological guidance with gathering services. Start from the most prominent problems facing new employment groups and grasp the most specific work. For example, issues such as settling down and obtaining household registration, children’s schooling, improvement of vocational skills, and broadening of career development space, truly achieve unblocking pain points, smoothing difficulties, and eliminating blind spots, solve the urgent and anxious problems of new employment groups with high quality, and truly firmly rally new employment groups around the Party organization. Diverse forms of labor and flexible working hours are the common state of new employment groups. How to provide good channels for the physical and mental health of new employment groups has become an urgent problem to be solved at present. Smooth the mechanism for expressing and resolving demands with Party organizations and Party members as the main channel, establish and improve the “three-link mechanism,” [6]6 The “three-link mechanism” is a Party-building method establishing a chain of communication: industry Party committees connect with enterprise Party branches, branches connect with Party members, and Party members connect with ordinary workers. that is, the system of industry Party committees contacting enterprise Party branches, enterprise Party branches contacting Party members, and Party members contacting ordinary masses, to achieve regular communication and listen to demands. The problems of difficulty in rights protection and multiple stops for new employment groups have long existed. After labor disputes arise, there are prominent problems such as difficulty in investigation and evidence collection, difficulty in fact determination, and imperfect legal policies. Do a good job in one-stop mediation of labor disputes for new employment groups, improve and perfect policies on labor relations and social insurance, reduce the cost of rights protection, save time for rights protection, and launch a combination of measures to protect the rights and interests of new employment groups. Activate the role of Party-mass service centers at all levels and various service platforms. According to the work characteristics and needs of new employment groups, build a wide-coverage, highly practical service platform for new employment groups. Set up warm-hearted service stations in places with a relatively concentrated concentration of commercial streets, improve related supporting facilities, and solve the basic needs of new employment groups. According to actual conditions and needs, provide various services such as psychological counseling and legal services for new employment groups, and form a service matrix for new employment groups that links upper and lower levels. Guide new employment groups to actively carry out volunteer services and participate in urban primary-level governance.

提升党组织的凝聚力。第九次全国职工队伍状况调查结果显示，包括货车司机、网约车司机、快递员、外卖配送员在内的全国新就业形态劳动者已达8400万人。与其他群体相比，新就业群体具有就业方式灵活、权益保障弱、归属感不强、社会认同感较低等特点。加强对新就业群体的关心关爱，提升新就业群体党组织的凝聚力和向心力。坚持把思想引导和凝聚服务结合起来。从解决新就业群体最突出的问题着眼，最具体的工作抓起。如：安家落户、子女上学、职业技能提升、职业发展空间拓宽等方面的问题，真正做到通堵点、疏痛点、消盲点，高质量解决新就业群体急难愁盼的事情，真正将新就业群体牢牢凝聚在党组织周围。劳动形式多样、工作时间灵活是新就业群体普遍状态，如何为新就业群体提供良好的身心健康渠道，成为目前急需解决的问题。要畅通以党组织和党员为主渠道的诉求表达解决机制，建立完善“三联系机制”，即行业党委联系企业支部、企业支部联系党员、党员联系普通群众制度，实现定期沟通，听取诉求。新就业群体维权难、多头跑的问题长期存在，出现劳动纠纷后，存在调查取证难、事实认定难和法律政策不完善等突出问题。做好新就业群体劳动纠纷一站式调解工作，健全完善劳动关系、社会保险等政策，降低维权成本、节约维权时间，打出保障新就业群体权益的组合拳。激活各级党群服务中心、各类服务平台作用。根据新就业群体的工作特点和需要，建设覆盖广泛、实用性强的新就业群体服务平台。在商业街区较为集中的地方设立暖心驿站，完善相关配套设施，解决新就业群体基本需求。根据实际和需要为新就业群体提供心理咨询、法律服务等各类服务，组建上下联动的新就业群体服务矩阵。引导新就业群体积极开展志愿服务，参与城市基层治理。

Build a collaborative and efficient Party-building work mechanism. With economic development and profound social changes, China’s social structure is undergoing deep transformations. In particular, new organizations and new social organizations are emerging in large numbers, the scale of new employment groups is continuously expanding, and new problems and new issues are arising in social work, urgently requiring the improvement of systems and mechanisms. Oriented toward enhancing the quality and effectiveness of services for new business forms and new employment groups, systematically construct a four-tier linkage system in which municipalities take charge of overall planning, industries promote implementation, districts (counties) take responsibility for execution, and subdistricts and communities handle the bottom line. Periodically analyze and assess the development trends of new business forms and Party-building work for new employment groups. Regularly organize market regulation, postal services, transportation, cyberspace administration, human resources and social security, public security, and other departments to study and resolve difficult and blocked issues in the production and operation of new business enterprises, as well as difficulties in the daily lives of new employment groups. Strengthen resource integration and overall coordination, clarify the responsibilities of relevant departments, and actively mobilize territorial resources to form a joint force for Party-building work among new employment groups. Adhere to a problem-oriented approach, formulate relevant regulations and measures in areas such as food safety supervision, consumer rights protection, joint credit punishment, co-construction and sharing of regulatory data, and digital supervision of delivery riders and vehicles. Use local legislation to regulate enterprise business conduct, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of new employment groups and consumers; resolve issues such as the difficulty of parking and entering residential communities for new employment groups represented by couriers and food delivery riders, coordinate the provision of temporary parking spaces, and concentrate on solving these “two difficulties.” Ensure that real problems are solved and that problems are truly solved. Improve the supervision and liaison system. Have industry Party committees guide new business enterprises in implementing standardized employment forms, industry systems, and operational rules; guide platform enterprises to strictly control the “entry gate” for recruitment and employment; supervise platform enterprises in providing industry policy interpretation to personnel before employment; and guide new employment groups to rationally understand industry risks and strengthen their awareness of compliance with rules and laws. Pilot the direct management of Party organizations in some important enterprises by organizational departments or social work departments, adopting methods such as directly conveying policy spirit, directly grasping work dynamics, directly listening to opinions and suggestions, directly guiding Party-building work, and directly conducting ideological and political work among responsible persons, to strengthen Party-building work. Establish mechanisms such as Party-building performance evaluation and reporting, interview reminders, and major incident reporting for some platform enterprises like courier and food delivery services, to consolidate Party-building responsibilities.

构建协同高效的党建工作机制。随着经济发展和社会深刻变革，我国社会结构正在发生深刻变化，尤其是新兴组织和新社会组织大量涌现，新就业群体规模不断扩大，社会工作中出现的新问题和新课题，迫切需要健全体制机制。以提升服务新业态、新就业群体质效为导向，系统构建市级抓统筹、行业抓推进、区（县）抓落实、街道社区抓兜底的四级联动体系，定期分析研判新业态发展态势、新就业群体党建工作。定期组织市场监管、邮政、交通、网信、人社、公安等部门研究解决新业态企业在生产经营中的难点堵点问题，新就业群体在日常生活中的困难。加强资源整合和力量统筹，明确相关部门职责，通过积极调动属地资源，形成新就业群体党建工作合力。坚持问题导向，从食品安全监管、消费者权益保护、信用联合惩戒、监管数据共建共享、骑手和车辆数字化监管等方面，制定相关规定和办法，通过地方立法规范企业经营行为，维护新就业群体和消费者合法权益；解决以快递员和外卖配送员等为代表的新就业群体的停车难、车辆进入小区难等问题，协调解决临时停车位，集中解决“两难”问题。做到解决真问题，真解决问题。完善监管联系制度。由行业党委指导新业态企业落实规范用工形式、行业制度和运行规则，指导平台企业把好招聘用人“入口关”，监督平台企业对人员入职前做好行业政策解读，引导新就业群体理性认识行业风险、加强遵规守法意识。试点由组织部门或社工部直接管理一些重要企业党组织，采用直接传达政策精神，直接掌握工作动态，直接听取意见建议，直接指导党建工作，直接做好负责人思想政治工作的方式，加强党建工作。建立快递、外卖等一些平台企业党建述职评议、约谈提醒和重大事项报告等机制，压实党建责任。

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