National Development and Reform Commission: Accelerate the formulation, revision, and implementation of relevant standards for the domestic service industry

Li Chao said that in recent years, China's domestic service industry has developed rapidly. The current market size has exceeded one trillion yuan, with more than 30 million practitioners. China has nearly 300 million elderly people aged 60 and above, and more than 32 million infants under 3 years old. The demand for domestic services in fields such as elderly care and childcare is continuously being released. It is preliminarily estimated that the labor gap in domestic services exceeds 20 million, among which the shortage of high-quality domestic service personnel with professional technical knowledge is particularly prominent. To promote the resolution of these issues, the National Development and Reform Commission, together with relevant departments, issued the "Opinions," which propose arrangements in four aspects.

First, strengthen the education and training of domestic service talents. In higher education, guide institutions to set up urgently needed domestic service-related majors according to actual conditions and reasonably arrange enrollment scales; in vocational education, focus on expanding the number of domestic service education teachers and encourage schools and domestic service enterprises to mutually employ part-time teachers; in continuing education, focus on orderly promoting the inclusion of domestic service-related majors in the national higher education self-study examination list, encouraging more practitioners to receive continuing academic education.

Second, enhance the skills of practitioners. Mainly carry out three aspects of work. First, guide domestic service enterprises to establish a full-chain, all-staff training system including pre-job, on-the-job, and job transfer training, ensuring that practitioners are qualified before starting work and receive at least one refresher training every two years. Second, promptly formulate, revise, and implement relevant standards for the domestic service industry. Third, strengthen the construction of domestic service training brands such as "Women’s Domestic Service," union domestic service, and "National Open Domestic Service," with an expected annual training of more than 600,000 domestic service practitioners, trainers, and professional managers.