Since the reform and opendoor policy, the Communist Party of China has held three national conferences of employment in its effort of dealing with serious urban unemployment shock caused respectively by the educated young people’s return to cities and employees of staterun enterprises being laid off. These three conferences offered theoretical guides to the governance of urban unemployment under the current circumstances and meanwhile helped accumulate historical experience for the Party to cope with urban unemployment in leading the nation in national construction, which is of important value to understanding and solving the current problem of urban unemployment.

conference of employment; the Communist Party of China; governance of urban unemployment