GuShiio.com ① Lu Zhiyuan, Minister of Civil Affairs, said that he will orderly promote the development of civil affairs and people’s livelihood security from comprehensive and basic to inclusive, explore the formation of a material and service assistance model, and accelerate the improvement of the urban and rural three-level elderly care service network to form a quarter-hour elderly care service circle.
② Lei Haichao, director of the National Health Commission, said that the life expectancy of China residents will reach 79 years in 2024.
Financial News Agency, March 9: The Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress is scheduled to hold a press conference at 3 pm today in the press conference hall of the Media Center. Lu Zhiyuan, Minister of Civil Affairs, Wang Xiaoping, Minister of Human Resources and social protection, Ni Hong, Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and Lei Haichao, Director of the National Health Commission, answered questions from Chinese and foreign reporters on issues related to civil affairs, employment and social protection, housing, health and other issues.
Lu Zhiyuan, Minister of Civil Affairs: People’s livelihood security is developing towards inclusive development
Lu Zhiyuan, Minister of Civil Affairs, said that in the past, civil affairs work was mainly aimed at groups with special difficulties to ensure basic people’s livelihood needs, and was characterized by ensuring basics and setting the bottom line. With the development of economy and society, it is necessary to orderly promote the development of civil affairs and people’s livelihood security from comprehensive and basic to inclusive.
Lu Zhiyuan: The number of orphans and abandoned babies in my country has been greatly reduced
Lu Zhiyuan, Minister of Civil Affairs, said at a press conference on people’s livelihood theme at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that with the improvement of my country’s economic and social development and medical and health levels, orphans and abandoned babies have been greatly reduced, and the protection of the rights and interests of migrant children and left-behind children has become a social focus. The focus of attention is to promote the extension of child welfare from living guarantees for orphans and abandoned children to care services for all children in need of help.
Lu Zhiyuan: Exploring the formation of a material and service assistance model
Lu Zhiyuan, Minister of Civil Affairs, said at a press conference on people’s livelihood theme at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that with social progress, while the basic livelihood of people in need has been guaranteed, the needs for spiritual care, social integration and self-development have also continued to grow., single material assistance can no longer meet the practical needs of the diverse recipients of assistance. In this regard, the next step will be to explore the development of service-type social assistance on the basis of basic guarantees mainly based on financial and material assistance, carry out mental health care services for children in need, develop nursing care services for severely disabled people, community rehabilitation services for mentally disabled people, etc., to better meet the needs of people in need.
Lu Zhiyuan: Promote people’s livelihood security in an orderly manner in four aspects, explore and develop service-type social assistance towards inclusive development
Lu Zhiyuan, Minister of Civil Affairs, said at a press conference on the theme of people’s livelihood at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that civil affairs work in the traditional sense is mainly for groups with special difficulties and belongs to basic and basic people’s livelihood construction. With the economic and social development of our country, it is necessary to Comply with changes in the needs of the people, gradually expand the coverage of relevant people’s livelihood security policies, and orderly promote the development of civil affairs and people’s livelihood security from comprehensive and basic to inclusive. First, the target of protection has shifted from a specific group to more groups in need of help. Inclusiveness mainly emphasizes the universality of the protection group, such as promoting the extension of child welfare protection to care services for all children in need of help; Second, the service content has shifted from focusing on material security to taking into account material assistance, social services and spiritual care. The next step will be to explore the development of service-type social assistance on the basis of basic guarantees based on financial and material assistance, and carry out psychological health care services for children in need. Care services, development of childcare services for severely disabled people, etc.; Third, factor protection mainly relies on the government to be government-led, actively giving full play to the role of market, society and other forces, and actively guiding the participation of social forces such as charity, such as vigorously developing elderly care undertakings and elderly care industries, and increasing multi-level, diversification, High-quality elderly care service policies; fourth, the transformation of means and methods from traditional service methods to digital intelligence and standardization.
Lu Zhiyuan: Accelerate the improvement of the three-level elderly care service network in urban and rural areas to form a quarter-hour elderly care service circle
Lu Zhiyuan, Minister of Civil Affairs, said at a press conference on the theme of people’s livelihood at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that just as there is a school for school and a hospital for medical treatment, the development of elderly care services also requires corresponding institutional facilities. On the basis of existing elderly care service facilities, we will promote the improvement of comprehensive elderly care service management platforms at the county level, regional elderly care service centers in townships (streets), and necessary elderly care service sites in villages (communities) to build counties, townships, and villages. The three-level service network will form a quarter-hour elderly care service circle to provide convenient elderly care services for the elderly.
Lu Zhiyuan: Promote the large-scale, clustering and branding development of the elderly care service industry
Lu Zhiyuan, Minister of Civil Affairs, said at a press conference on the theme of people’s livelihood at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that building a tripartite collaborative mechanism between the government, the market and society will give full play to the government’s leading role and strengthen the government’s planning guidance, policy support, and organizational guarantee for elderly care services., supervision and management, give full play to the role of the market in allocating resources, support various market entities to actively develop the elderly care industry, and promote the large-scale, clustering and branding development of the elderly care service industry. Continuously consolidate the supply of elderly care services.
Lu Zhiyuan: Strengthen dynamic monitoring of low-income population
Lu Zhiyuan, Minister of Civil Affairs, said at a press conference on people’s livelihood theme at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that the next step will be to solidly carry out service-type social assistance pilots, improve policies and measures, and explore the formation of a “material + service” service model. Strengthen the dynamic monitoring of low-income populations and apply big data comparison and mapping to ensure that people in need “are discovered in a timely manner if they have difficulties, and receive timely assistance if they need assistance.”
Lu Zhiyuan: Strengthen normalized assistance and solidly carry out pilot projects for service-type social assistance
Lu Zhiyuan, Minister of Civil Affairs, said at a press conference on people’s livelihood theme at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that in terms of ensuring the basic livelihood of people in need, first, we must strengthen regular assistance. Second, we must work with relevant departments to promote the connection between policies to prevent and control poverty return and policies to support rural low-income people. The third is to solidly carry out pilot projects for service-type social assistance. Improve policies and measures and explore the formation of a “material + service” model. The fourth is to strengthen the dynamic monitoring of low-income population.
Wang Xiaoping, Minister of Human Resources and social protection: The job market has started well in the past two months
Wang Xiaoping, Minister of Human Resources and social protection, said at a press conference on people’s livelihood theme at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that the task of stabilizing and expanding employment is arduous this year, and the pressure on total employment has not decreased, but the employment situation is generally stable and showing a positive trend. This year’s government work report clearly stated that strengthening the people’s livelihood orientation of macro policies will provide stronger support for economic growth and employment promotion. Judging from the situation in the past two months, the start and production have accelerated after the holidays, migrant workers have gone out earlier, and the job market has started well.
Wang Xiaoping: The task of stabilizing and expanding employment this year is heavy. The employment situation is generally stable and showing a positive trend
Wang Xiaoping, Minister of Human Resources and social protection, said at a press conference on the theme of people’s livelihood at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that employment is the top priority for people’s livelihood. This year’s employment situation can be summarized in two sentences: First, the task of stabilizing and expanding employment is arduous. There are 12.22 million new graduates and college graduates this year. The scale of people who have been lifted out of poverty needs to be maintained at more than 30 million. There is still a large number of rural migrant workers who need to achieve stable employment, and the total amount of employment will not be under pressure. Reduced, structural contradictions have become more prominent. At the same time, the external environment has become more complex and continues, and the foundation for the domestic economic recovery is not yet solid, which may have a certain impact on employment. Second, the employment situation is generally stable and showing a positive trend. With the solid advancement of my country’s high-quality development, a large number of new technologies, new products, and new scenarios have been applied on a large scale, diversified and differentiated consumption potential has been continuously released, and various financial entities and innovative and entrepreneurial benefits have been effectively stimulated. These have established a solid foundation for stability and expansion of employment.
Wang Xiaoping: This year, the special loan quota for job stabilization will be further increased
Wang Xiaoping, Minister of Human Resources and social protection, said at a press conference on the theme of people’s livelihood at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that he will improve the employment priority policy, increase overall support from various financial resources, and make every effort to stabilize the total amount of employment and promote the majority of workers to achieve employment and increase income. Organize and implement employment support plans, and work with relevant departments to introduce and intensify the expansion of potential jobs in key areas, key industries, small, medium and micro enterprises. Last year, the balance of special loans for job stabilization exceeded 300 billion yuan, and the loan amount will be further increased this year.
Wang Xiaoping: Comprehensively implement the incremental policy of job stabilization and return employment subsidies, timely reserve and introduce incremental employment policies
Wang Xiaoping: Introduce a new round of support policies for college graduates and other young people to stabilize the recruitment scale
Wang Xiaoping, Minister of Human Resources and social protection, said at a press conference on the theme of people’s livelihood at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that this year, a new round of support policies will be introduced for college graduates and other young people, stabilize the recruitment scale, expand the number of personnel in grassroots projects such as “Three Supports and One Support” and “Western Plan”, implement a million employment internship program, and comprehensively promote job training camps.
Wang Xiaoping: Support labor-intensive industries to absorb and stabilize employment during transformation and upgrading
At the meeting, Wang Xiaoping, Minister of Human Resources and social protection, said when talking about promoting the construction of an employment-friendly development method that this is to improve the employment driving force of development and make the process of high-quality development a process of improving employment quality and expanding. We will implement the central government’s opinions on implementing the employment priority strategy to promote high-quality and full employment, improve employment priority policies, strengthen employment impact assessments of major plans and major projects, and strengthen the employment orientation of macro policies. Play a good policy “combination punch” and continue to promote the coordinated efforts of fiscal, monetary, industrial and other policies and employment policies to create more high-quality jobs in expanding domestic demand, accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system, and stabilizing foreign investment and foreign trade. Find the right balance between technological innovation and employment stability, support labor-intensive industries to absorb and stabilize employment in transformation and upgrading, coordinate the application of new technologies and job conversion, and create new employment opportunities.
Wang Xiaoping: Implementing the “Skills Illuminating the Future” action to subsidize more than 10 million vocational skills training every year for three consecutive years
Wang Xiaoping, Minister of Human Resources and social protection, said at a press conference on the theme of people’s livelihood at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that the “Skills illuminate the Future” action will be implemented. Starting from this year, more than 10 million people will be subsidized for vocational skills training every year. The training targets will focus on the most urgently needed groups, especially migrant workers, college graduates who have left school but are unemployed, unemployed people, people with employment difficulties, etc., focusing on some areas with large employment capacity and prominent contradictions between supply and demand. For example, advanced manufacturing, modern services, etc., increase the supply of urgently needed skilled talents, and carry out special training for skilled talents in elderly care services and long-term caregivers.
Wang Xiaoping: Study and introduce incentive policies to increase salary distribution for skilled talents in state-owned enterprises
Wang Xiaoping, Minister of Human Resources and social protection, said at a press conference on people’s livelihood theme at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that he will study and issue policy documents to increase the salary distribution of skilled talents in state-owned enterprises and reasonably increase the salary standards for skilled positions in production.
Wang Xiaoping: Study the inclusion of more new employment forms into the social security system for enterprise employees
Wang Xiaoping, Minister of Human Resources and social protection, said at a press conference on the theme of people’s livelihood at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that social protection policies for key groups will be improved. Adapt to changes in employment methods, study and improve insurance payment methods, and incorporate more flexible employees, migrant workers and other new employment forms into the social security system for enterprise employees to enjoy a higher level of protection. Wang Xiaoping also said that the next step will be to expand the pilot program of occupational injury protection for people in new employment forms, and plans to increase the number of pilot provinces from 7 to 17, and gradually extend it to nationwide implementation.
Wang Xiaoping: Let the masses understand and calculate social security clearly, participate in insurance early, and make long-term payments
Wang Xiaoping, Minister of Human Resources and social protection, said at a press conference on the theme of people’s livelihood at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that the next step will be to improve the transfer and continuation of social insurance relationships to make the transfer and continuation of social security relationships smoother; efforts will be made to strengthen policy publicity so that the people can understand, calculate clearly, participate in insurance early, and make long-term payments, so as to provide better protection for their later life.
Wang Xiaoping: The level of pension insurance benefits will be steadily improved this year
Wang Xiaoping, Minister of Human Resources and social protection, said at a press conference on the theme of people’s livelihood at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that the level of pension insurance benefits will be steadily improved this year. On the basis of last year, the minimum basic pension standard for urban and rural residents will be increased by another 20 yuan per month this year. This increase in benefits involves 180 million urban and rural elderly residents. At the same time, the basic pension for retirees will be appropriately increased, focusing on low-and middle-income groups. This increase in benefits involves more than 140 million retirees. The human resources and social security department will carefully calculate to ensure timely and accurate distribution.
Ni Hong, Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development: Since the implementation of urban renewal in 2019, a total of 280,000 old urban communities have been renovated
Ni Hong, Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said at a press conference on people’s livelihood theme at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that since the central government deployed and implemented urban renewal in 2019, a total of 280,000 old urban communities have been renovated, benefiting 120 million residents., more than 130,000 elevators have been installed.
Ni Hong: All old urban communities built before 2000 must be included in the scope of urban renewal and transformation
Ni Hong, Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said at a press conference on people’s livelihood theme at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that efforts will be made to implement a number of urban renewal projects that benefit people’s livelihood, promote development, and prevent risks. In terms of people’s livelihood, all old urban communities built before 2000 must be included in the scope of urban renewal and renovation, renovation should be implemented according to local conditions, and local residents should be encouraged to explore the independent renovation of old houses; the scope of urban village renovation has now been expanded to include cities at prefecture level and above across the country., the next step is to continue to expand the scope of renovation; Vigorously promote the construction of complete communities, focusing on “one old and one small”, and improve the construction of barrier-free and age-friendly supporting facilities, government childcare service facilities, and children’s activity venues.
Ni Hong: More than 290 prefecture-level cities have carried out comprehensive urban physical examinations
Ni Hong, Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said at a press conference on the theme of people’s livelihood at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that cities, like people, are an organic living body. To stay healthy, people must have regular physical examinations to discover lesions, find the cause, prescribe accurate prescriptions, and solve problems. The same goes for cities.① Adhere to a problem-oriented approach and find urgent, difficult and anxious problems around the masses, such as difficulty in parking, difficulty in charging, insufficient elderly care service facilities, and insufficient venues for children’s activities.② Adhere to goal orientation and find shortcomings and weaknesses that affect the city’s competitiveness, carrying capacity and sustainable development, such as lack of cultural characteristics and unbalanced public services. The problems discovered in the physical examination are the problems that need to be solved key to urban renewal. At present, more than 290 prefecture-level cities across the country have carried out comprehensive urban physical examinations, and we will also support county-level cities with conditions to carry out urban physical examinations.
Ni Hong: In January and February this year, the real estate market maintained a positive momentum of stopping decline and stabilizing
Ni Hong, Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said at a press conference on people’s livelihood theme at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that since September last year, real estate policies have continued to be exerted. All localities have implemented policies according to the city, implemented precise policies, and vigorously supported residents. With the rigid and improved needs, the annual goals and tasks have been completed through efforts to ensure housing and housing. With the efforts of all parties, market confidence has been effectively boosted and positive changes have taken place in the real estate market. Judging from statistics, the real estate market maintained a positive momentum of stopping decline and stabilizing in January and February this year.
Ni Hong: Promote the reform of purchasing existing commercial housing and improve basic systems such as real estate development and sales
Ni Hong, Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said at a press conference on people’s livelihood theme at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that we will work with relevant departments to combine the strengths and weaknesses, address both the symptoms and root causes, and resolutely stabilize the property market. First, consolidate the effect of policy combinations and continue to fight hard to secure the property market. We will increase the investment of white-list loans, and fully guarantee the delivery of project construction in accordance with the requirements of “all advances should be made and all loans should be made”. The second is to strive to implement the renovation of urban villages and dilapidated houses, and steadily promote monetized resettlement so that residents of urban villages have more independent choices. The third is to promote the acquisition of existing commercial housing and support local governments to fully exercise autonomy in the price and use of purchasing entities. The fourth is to reform and improve basic systems such as real estate development and sales to adapt to the needs of the people for high-quality housing, promote the construction of safe, comfortable, green and smart houses, and promote the stable and healthy development of the real estate market.
Ni Hong: The residential floor height standard will be adjusted to no less than 3 meters
When answering questions about building “good houses” for the people, Ni Hong, Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said that he should promote the construction of safe, comfortable, green and smart “good houses”. The residential floor height standard will be adjusted to no less than 3 meters.
Ni Hong: Building a good house is a new track for industrial transformation and development
Ni Hong, Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, expressed at a press conference on people’s livelihood theme at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that he hoped that all sectors of life would support and participate in house construction. In particular, real estate companies and construction companies should realize that building good houses is a new track for industrial transformation and development. If companies want to compete in the future, they must strive for new technology, high-quality, and good services. Whoever can build and provide good services for the people will have a market.
Lei Haichao, Director of the National Health Commission: The life expectancy of China residents will reach 79 years in 2024
Lei Haichao, director of the National Health Commission, said at a press conference on the theme of people’s livelihood at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that in recent years, relevant indicators of the physical development of Chinese teenagers have been continuously improving, and the health literacy of China residents has also continued to improve. According to the latest Statistical Express results, the life expectancy of China residents will reach 79 years in 2024, achieving the set direction of efforts set in the “14th Five-Year Plan” national economic and social development plan ahead of schedule.
Lei Haichao: My country’s average life expectancy has increased by 1.7 years in 5 years, maintaining a fairly good improvement rate
Lei Haichao, director of the National Health Commission, said at a press conference on the theme of people’s livelihood at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that my country’s average life expectancy in 2024 will increase by 1.7 years compared with 2019, and will increase by 1.7 years in five years, which is a quite good improvement rate. In particular, the per capita health level of 31 provinces and cities across the country shows that the gap in health levels among provinces is gradually narrowing, indicating that health equity is also gradually improving.
Lei Haichao: Implement the three-year action of the “Year of Weight Management”, popularize healthy lifestyles, and strengthen the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases
Lei Haichao, director of the National Health Commission, said at a press conference on the theme of people’s livelihood at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that the three-year action of “Weight Management Year” will be implemented to popularize healthy lifestyles and strengthen the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases.
Lei Haichao: Currently, the main risk factors and diseases endangering the health of people in China are chronic non-infectious diseases
Lei Haichao, director of the National Health Commission, said at a press conference on people’s livelihood theme at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that we have noticed that the main risk factors and diseases currently endangering the health of people in China still come from chronic non-infectious diseases. Many pathogenic factors in chronic non-infectious diseases are closely related to everyone’s behavioral lifestyle, diet and physical exercise. For example, problems with abnormal weight.
Lei Haichao: Average life expectancy in 8 provinces and cities has exceeded 80 years
Lei Haichao, director of the National Health Commission, said at a press conference on the theme of people’s livelihood at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that the average life expectancy of eight provinces and cities including Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, and Hainan has exceeded 80 years old.
Lei Haichao: Guide medical and health institutions to establish weight clinics
Lei Haichao, director of the National Health Commission, said at a press conference on the theme of people’s livelihood at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that we focus on combining prevention and treatment and provide some personalized services. Some comrades do not manage their weight well and need the help of professional medical institutions. Therefore, we guide medical and health institutions to set up weight clinics to provide a good professional consultation environment and platform for residents suffering from weight problems.
Lei Haichao: We are working with the National Development and Reform Commission to conduct in-depth planning on the medical and health strengthening project
Lei Haichao, director of the National Health Commission, said at a press conference on people’s livelihood theme at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that he is working with the National Development and Reform Commission to conduct in-depth planning on the project to strengthen the medical and health foundation. In recent years, grassroots medical and health institutions have been greatly improved in terms of solving common and frequently-occurring diseases among residents. Medical and health services at the grassroots level cannot be evaluated from the perspective of evaluating specialized hospitals, because their respective functions and positioning are different.
Lei Haichao: More than 90% of village clinics have been included in the designated medical insurance scope
Lei Haichao, director of the National Health Commission, said at a press conference on people’s livelihood theme at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that according to statistics, more than 90% of village clinics have been included in the designated scope of medical insurance, which greatly facilitates people’s medical treatment, medical treatment and payment.
Lei Haichao: This year, we will promote close county-level medical communities to cover 90% of counties and districts
Lei Haichao, director of the National Health Commission, said at a press conference on people’s livelihood theme at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that in terms of improving the grassroots service system, our goal this year is to further promote the county-level close medical community to cover 90% of counties and districts. By 2027, we will achieve basic full coverage of close county-level medical communities.
Lei Haichao: Large-scale application of artificial intelligence assisted technology to improve grassroots service capabilities and standards
Lei Haichao, director of the National Health Commission, said at a press conference on the theme of people’s livelihood at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that it will further strengthen grassroots informatization capabilities and apply a large number of artificial intelligence assistive technologies to improve grassroots service capabilities and standards. We will also further urge and guide all localities to further improve and update the level of equipment and facilities configured by primary medical and health institutions, and optimize and improve medical treatment conditions.
Lei Haichao: Develop pediatric and psychiatric health services and optimize the salary system reform of public hospitals
Lei Haichao, director of the National Health Commission, said at a press conference on people’s livelihood theme at the Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress that compared with the needs of ordinary people, during the season of high incidence of respiratory diseases in winter and spring, pediatric medical services will be in some areas, especially large cities. There will be tension. In terms of developing pediatric and psychiatric health services, we will strengthen them from three aspects: First, improve the pediatric and mental health service system. The second is to regard pediatric and mental health services as one of the eight tasks of the National Health Commission to serve the people this year. In terms of mental health, no less than 5000 national, provincial and municipal lectures and themed activities on mental health knowledge will be held. In terms of pediatrics, to strengthen and improve the medical service team, we will work with relevant departments to optimize the reform of the salary system in public hospitals. The third is to further improve capabilities. We will work with the Ministry of Finance to further strengthen the construction of key clinical specialties in pediatrics and psychiatry.
