Government units at the town level in Shanghai recruit collective personnel. Is there any difference between this and the establishment of regular public institutions? Thank you for the details!

What you said is still not informative and accurate enough. The key is to look at the nature of the unit being recruited. You just spoke in general terms (town-level government units), but in fact you don't know which unit or type of unit it is. According to my personal speculation, what you are talking about may not belong to a government unit, but may be an enterprise unit affiliated to a certain government department. Because for government departments (including public institutions that form the government), their recruitment is organized and implemented by the Organization Department (or Labor, Personnel and Social Security Bureau, also called "Human Resources Bureau" in some places). That is to say, for example, if a town government wants to recruit people, it does not use its power and qualifications to recruit people from the society. It must apply to the personnel department of the higher-level people's government (or the organization department of the higher-level party committee) for this matter, and then the government will The human resources and social security department shall organize and implement it in a unified manner. In other words, your town government only has the power to employ people, but not to recruit them.

Based on your description, it is obvious that the personnel were recruited independently by a certain unit. This obviously does not comply with the personnel management system of government agencies, so it can be inferred that it is not a government department.

As for the formal business establishment and group establishment you mentioned, I think you should be able to understand it through the previous explanation. If the recruitment is unified by the human resources and social security department, then its establishment must be the so-called "regular establishment", and vice versa, it is definitely not. As for the collective staff you mentioned, I personally estimate that they are just contract workers. But I think, as far as the current situation is concerned, it is not much different from the so-called "regular establishment". As long as the remuneration and benefits are the same, why do you care about the establishment or not? These days, even government departments are no longer "iron rice bowls", and this bowl of porridge is not tasty.

Young people, in today’s society, don’t care about “staffing”, the key is to look at “treatment”!