1. What the World Bank's Business Ready (B-READY) mainly assesses:

• Regulatory framework: The quality of regulations on employment, including the rights of employers and employees, the legislation on occupational safety and health, and the legislation on minimum wage, work hours, benefits, dismissal, and other fields.
• Public services: The institutional framework upon which the enforcement of labor regulations depends, such as social protection.
• Efficiency: Cost of social security payments, time and cost to hire and dismiss an employee, and time and cost to resolve a labor dispute.

2. Key points, cases, and relevant legal policies (Coming soon)

3. What efforts have been made in Shanghai:

• Established a new citywide "Shanghai Public Employment and Recruitment Platform" to provide public employment services in such areas as job hunting, recruitment, and career guidance.
• Improved the handling of workers' complaints and appeals and the diversified dispute resolution mechanism.
• Introduced a document on promoting the establishment of harmonious labor relations, and strengthened the construction of the governance system and governance capacity of labor relations.
• Fully implemented policies and measures for training workers, expanded the scope of subsidies for upgrading skills, and improved workers' skills.
• Improved the system of employment support for graduates and other key groups, promoted the policy of "Direct subsidies, Fast Services" in providing social insurance subsidies for enterprises to recruit employees, and boosted entrepreneurship among key groups to encourage job growth.
• Protected labor security rights and interests of workers engaged in new forms of employment. On July 1, 2022, the pilot project of work-related injury insurance for employees in new forms of employment was launched, including seven platform enterprises covering travel, takeout, instant delivery, and intracity freight.
• Continued to carry out special inspections on law enforcement to safeguard the labor rights and interests of female employees and rectify the human resources market.

4. What Shanghai has achieved:

• Implemented the reform of integrating the whole process of applying for employment insurance, realizing "Online Service on One Portal and Offline Service at One Stop".
• Ranked 1st for two consecutive years in China by the State Council in ensuring wage payment to migrant workers.
• Continued to drive the improvement of vocational skills, accelerating the transformation and upgrading of public training bases, and taking preparation for WorldSkills Shanghai 2026 as an opportunity to strengthen the cultivation of high-skilled talents.