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Participation in the 113th Session of the International Labour Conference

The six-member delegation, consisting of Mr. Chan Un Tong, Coordinator of the Standing Committee for the Coordination of Social Affairs (“CPCS”), Ms. Fok Sin Ieng, Division Head of the Labour Affairs Bureau, Mr. Vong Kok Seng and Mr. Wong Yeuk Lai Alan, representatives of the employers’ organizations of the CPCS, and Mr. Sam Iat Kuong and Ms. O Lai Heong, representatives of the employees’ organizations of the CPCS, as advisory members of the delegation of China, attended the 113th session of the International Labour Conference in Geneva, Switzerland from 31 May to 7 June 2025.

The key topics of the Conference included:

  1. Protection against biological hazards in the working environment (standard-setting, second discussion);
  2. Decent work in the platform economy (standard-setting, first discussion);
  3. General discussion on innovative approaches to tackling informality and promoting transitions towards formality to promote decent work;
  4. ILO’s tripartite input to the Second World Summit for Social Development in 2025;
  5. Measures under article 33 of the ILO Constitution to secure compliance by Myanmar with the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry.

In the opening ceremony, ILO Director-General Gilbert F. Houngbo highlighted in his speech that slower global economic growth and rising trade tensions were putting pressure on job creation; jobs could not be reduced to a mere outcome of economic growth but had to be an active component of such growth; at the same time, jobs, workers’ protection, and economic growth had to be understood to be mutually reinforcing.

In addition, at the plenary session on 6 June, Mr. Wu Xiuzhang, Vice Minister of Human Resources and Social Security, of the delegation of China delivered a speech that the Chinese government would uphold the ILO’s mandate on promoting decent work and safeguarding social justice towards a more sustainable economy with more jobs and better protection for rights and interests; meanwhile, he also proposed to put the promotion of employment and entrepreneurship as a high priority on the macroeconomic policy, to treat high quality and full employment as the value orientation for social advancement, and to facilitate open and inclusive collaboration.

Standing Committee for the Coordination of Social Affairs