Li Wei (Fujian Daily): This year's civil servant examination came to an end in more than 10 provinces on April 12. Around 2 million applicants competed for just 70,000 posts, showing that the demand for civil service posts has not cooled down yet, which strikes a sharp contrast to job hunters' indifference to ordinary enterprises.
The so-called "craze" for civil servant posts is actually a comparative concept, compared to people's indifference to jobs in enterprises. However, the difficulty facing enterprises in employing good workers does not exist in all enterprises. Big enterprises offer good salaries and welfare to attract job hunters. It is small and medium-sized enterprises that find themselves in an embarrassing situation. Therefore, it's necessary for the government to reduce tax burdens on businesses. When enterprises can also grant employees stable salaries and good welfare, the attraction of being a civil servant to young graduates will naturally decline.
To make the positions less attractive, it's also important to change people's deep-rooted idea that becoming a state official will ensure them a better life. The existing dual-track pension and medical insurance system, which is unfair to most people, also need reform to dissuade people from taking the civil service posts.
It's important to let people engaged in all jobs fully feel fairness and equality in rights, opportunities, treatments, and so on, so that the young will have a broader potential for development, and naturally the craze for civil service posts will recede.
Zhang Yan (www.zynews.com): For years, a large number of people rushed to compete for the very limited civil service posts available every year. As a result, a lot of excellent people gather in government departments, while other fields receive relatively few excellent workers. This will lead to the reduction of social vitality and creativity, further curbing social development. Meanwhile, a swelling civil servant group will add to the public and society's burdens. Therefore, the decline in popularity of working as a civil servant is a good thing and is beneficial to society as a whole.
We have noticed that some civil servants regret their career choice. They complain about poor treatment and demand higher salaries. In a normal society, every social group or class is supposed to have the right to express their own opinions. Complaints, particularly from community-level civil servants, should also be taken seriously.
However, compared to people working in other fields, civil servants enjoy stable incomes and good welfare, generally above the average level. They live in a relatively free and stable situation, enjoy all state holidays. For these reasons, civil servants won't give up their posts easily. Despite the small decline in demand for civil service jobs, the absolute number of examination participants this year is still huge.
In a good society, an excellent person will find it possible to do something and achieve something in every sector. A society's progress will be affected when highly qualified people all rush to find shelter under the umbrella of civil service.
Actions like strengthening restriction on civil servants and stepping up anti-graft efforts, which may help to reduce privileges enjoyed by civil servants, will guide the young to make wiser choices when hunting for jobs. When talking about salary increases for civil servants, attention should also be paid to the balance of income distribution for the whole of society. To cool the young's enthusiasm for civil service posts and make it possible for them to purse their dreams in posts where they are really interested in is what society really needs.
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