Agenda: Allocating additional funds to upgrade the primary care system in the regions; supporting people experiencing financially challenges; implementing the Personnel national project.
Mikhail Mishustin’s opening remarks
Meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues
Meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues
Tatyana Golikova’s report on the implementation of the Personnel national project
Meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues
Tatyana Golikova’s report on the implementation of the Personnel national project
Mikhail Mishustin: Good morning, colleagues,
First of all, I would like to speak about the development of Russia’s healthcare system. We are renovating its infrastructure and re-equipping health facilities under a related national project. As the President has stressed, we must focus on improving the primary care system, the most in-demand element of medical services. It is constantly under immense pressure, with over 1 billion patient visits per year.
Many regions must overhaul their healthcare organisations and buy medical equipment, including high-tech devices.
The Government has decided to allocate 2 billion roubles in extra funding to nine constituent entities of the Russian Federation: the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, the Lugansk People’s Republic, Kalmykia, Mordovia, as well as the Belgorod, Zaporozhiye, Ivanovo, Kursk, and Kherson regions. Over 500 million roubles from this sum will fund the construction of building for an outpatient clinic in the Kherson Region and for a health centre in Ivanovo.
These allocations should help finalise the construction of facilities under the Upgrading the Primary Healthcare System project within the set timeframes. This means that people will be given medical assistance in up-to-date institutions outfitted with the necessary equipment.
Now let us discuss support for individuals experiencing financial difficulties. The social contract has proven effective well in this regard. Its signing enables people to take a retraining course for a new job, or to obtain funds for their own business or a personal subsidiary plot. All of this can help improve their financial situation.
The President’s decision has made this opportunity available to people across our country for the past five years. We will allocate over 650 million roubles in extra funding to seven regions where this instrument is in a particularly high demand. I am referring to Buryatia, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Chechnya, Karelia, the Primorye Territory, and the Kursk Region. A unified allowance introduced at the President’s initiative has become an important asset for low-income families with children. Since the start of this year, it has been assigned to more than 9.5 million children and over 150,000 pregnant women. We will redistribute nearly 1.3 billion roubles for these payments.
The Government will continue to do what is necessary to improve people’s wellbeing. This is one of the national goals approved by the President.
Let us turn to the next issue.
Not long ago, there was a meeting with vocational school teachers, winners of the Master of the Year national contest, and with students. These young people are mastering their trades with great enthusiasm, and the majority of them already know their future employers. This has become possible because personnel-starved companies cooperate closely with vocational and technical schools.
Last year’s recruitment needs forecast showed that workers with special vocational training would account for 70 percent of demand in the period until 2030. The regions must be clearly aware of the labour market’s future needs and how the special vocational training system will respond to these. To encourage young people to pursue careers in trades, it is necessary to enhance their appeal and offer appropriate guidance. But this is also a challenge for employers, who should create attractive conditions for them, including competitive salaries.
Ms Golikova, how is the Personnel national project responding to these challenges, taking these trends into account?
Tatyana Golikova: Good morning, Mr Mishustin. Good morning, colleagues.
Tatyana Golikova’s report on the implementation of the Personnel national project
As you have already noted, employers in the manufacturing sector are now offering fairly competitive employment conditions. According to the Federal Service for State Statistics, wages in the manufacturing industry grew by 15.8 percent in nominal terms during the first six months of the year compared with the same period last year.
This wage growth has become a factor in attracting workers to the manufacturing sector. At the same time, the labour market today is showing record figures: the unemployment rate stands at just 2.1 percent, according to the methodology of the International Labour Organisation.
In these circumstances, the measures offered to employers under the Personnel national project have become highly relevant.
What is driving this?
First, given the trend of increasing labour demand, it is essential to clearly understand the future needs of employers for specialists, so that these can be reflected in the enrollment targets for both universities and to secondary vocational schools.
Second, it is necessary to improve career guidance and enhance the prestige of skilled trades, the share of which is growing. This will help school students make informed career choices that will be in demand in the future. During their studies at a university or college, they will also have the opportunity to gain practical experience in their chosen field, which will help ensure employment afterwards.
Third, considering the existing imbalances in the labour market, effective operational mechanisms include workforce training and retraining, which have also become an integral part of the Personnel national project
What are we doing in these areas?
This year, we are continuing work on developing a workforce forecast. So far, 320,000 employers have taken part in this effort, covering more than 23.5 million workers – a sufficiently representative sample.
As per your instructions, we have extended the horizon of the workforce forecast to seven years, to fully cover the seven-year cycle of higher education and to accurately predict these trends. The workforce forecast for the period up to 2032 will be prepared by the end of December. Its findings will then form the basis for setting enrollment targets, as agreed with our colleagues.
Regarding preliminary estimates , based on the new socio-economic development forecast, the number of employed persons in the labour market is expected to reach 74.3 million by 2032. This is 1.1 million more than in 2024, but 200,000 fewer than the estimates we provided for the period until 2030 in the previous forecast.
Sectoral trends remain unchanged. Growth in workforce numbers is expected in the healthcare, professional, science and technological sector, tourism and hospitality, transport and storage, manufacturing, construction and IT.
Given the challenges we face, it is essential to guide each graduate to their future employer. To this end, we are working within a project on career routing and the development of a comprehensive career guidance system, which involves educational institutions, employment centres and employers. In the first half of this year, we ran a pilot project in 11 regions, involving students from grades 8 and 9 as well as final-year college and university students. Over 1,000 employers invited participants to their enterprises for career tours.
What did we find out? Over 143,000 final-year students underwent an assessment of employment risk, and in nearly 12 percent of cases a risk of unemployment was identified .Through our employment centres and university career centres, we provided support to 3,000 graduates and helped them secure employment. These results were demonstrated in the pilot projects.
Based on the pilot outcomes, at the start of the academic year around 10 million young people received emails via the Government Services website , inviting them to start their careers with the support of Jobs of Russia personnel centres. Responding to this initiative, graduates have access to 15 services that allow them to shape their professional trajectory.
Next year, building on the integration of departmental data, we plan to develop career portfolios for students, which will allow us to proactively and individually offer support in building their professional paths.
To raise the prestige of skilled trades, we relaunched our Best Worker professional excellence competition. There are 20 categories, reflecting the most in-demand professions in the labour market. Federal rounds are currently being held in 16 regions, with 75 regions and 1,000 employers participating in total. In all, 2,000 our specialists competed for the title of best in their profession. Winners and prize winners will be welcomed in Moscow. On 2 December, the award ceremony will take place at the Kremlin Palace, and on 3–4 December, a major exhibition and forum programme dedicated to workers will be held at the National Exhibition of Economic Achievements (VDNKh).
Finally, an operational priority I mentioned earlier is workforce training and retraining. This year, we planned training for over 104,000 people. We have received and approved 112,000 applications, and 72,000 participants have already begun training.
Training is being conducted in 360 of the most in-demand occupations in the labour market, selected in cooperation with the regions. They include different occupations, from welders and machine operators to AI specialists. Importantly, the training is taking place at enterprise production sites, a first-time initiative.
I would also like to note that among those who have started training, 400 are participants in the special military operation, who are receiving particular attention. As a reminder, in May this year, , as instructed by the President, the Government approved a special plan to increase employment levels among participants in the special military operation, based on the coordinated efforts of all relevant federal authorities.
Mikhail Mishustin: Thank you Ms Golikova. I would like to ask that, within the implementation of the Personnel national project, you continue engaging with employers, regions, and agencies, and create broad opportunities for young people to acquire in-demand skills, find work they enjoy, and secure a decent living for themselves and their families.
