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E-mail China.org.cn, March 17, 2025
The Poster News APP:
This year's report has introduced many new measures to ensure and enhance people's well-being, which the public is eagerly anticipating. Could you provide a review and interpretation of the main aspects? Thank you.
Shen Danyang:
I'll answer this question. As you noted, this year's government work report has introduced measures aimed at ensuring and improving public well-being, which the public is eagerly awaiting. The measures proposed in the report are comprehensive, encompassing policies designed to promote income growth through various channels. These policies focus on enhancing earnings for low- and middle-income groups by reducing their financial burdens. The report includes strategies to improve agricultural profits, revitalize rural development, and increase rural incomes. Efforts will also be strengthened to stabilize and expand employment opportunities. Moreover, the report recommends enhancing basic medical and health services and improving regulatory oversight to ensure school meal and food delivery safety. These initiatives will be worth the wait. I will list a few here.
In terms of promoting employment, the report proposes increasing the coordination of funds and resources, with a focus on supporting industries with large employment capacities and groups that require stronger support. For example, it is necessary to properly address the employment issue for this year's 12.22 million college graduates, ensuring graduates find employment sooner and their parents can rest assured. It is now March, the prime time for college graduates to look for jobs. There is a saying: "Golden March, Silver April." Employers are conducting spring recruitment on campuses, and efforts should be made to organize it well and provide good services. We should spend money where it's needed, and strengthen publicity and promotion as appropriate. Some plans and arrangements are already in place. Furthermore, support should continue to be strengthened for groups such as those lifted out of poverty and migrant workers. In response to the prominent social issue of structural unemployment, large-scale vocational skills improvement training initiatives will be carried out this year. Structural unemployment means that, on one hand, some people cannot find work, while on the other hand, some positions cannot find suitable candidates. For example, there are relative shortages of workers in sectors like domestic services and elderly care, as well as operators in fields related to big data and AI, and maintenance personnel for NEV-related equipment. Targeted vocational skills training should be conducted to address these structural unemployment challenges, and we need to put efforts into this. Additionally, it is necessary to accelerate the establishment of a skills-oriented salary distribution system, supporting people in obtaining better jobs and higher incomes through skill enhancement.
In terms of social security, this year's Report on the Work of the Government proposed a series of measures to increase financial subsidies. For example, this year, the per capita financial subsidy for residents' medical insurance will increase from 670 yuan to 700 yuan, and the per capita financial subsidy for basic public health services will rise to 99 yuan. The basic pension for retirees and the minimum basic pension for urban and rural residents will be appropriately increased, benefiting 320 million people. Support and assistance for disadvantaged groups, such as those receiving subsistence allowances and people with disabilities, will continue to be strengthened. These areas all require financial expenditure, and compared to previous years, the fiscal investment in them this year is unprecedented. The public will benefit greatly, making this effort highly worthwhile.
The report also proposes a series of supportive measures for issues related to the elderly and child care that are of public concern. For example, in response to the varying needs of elderly, it proposes advancing community-supported at-home elderly care, strengthening care for functionally impaired elderly individuals, increasing support for assisted catering services for the elderly, and setting requirements for improving geriatric medicine and enhancing barrier-free, age-friendly facilities. The report also proposes measures such as issuing childcare subsidies, vigorously developing integrated childcare services, and gradually implementing free preschool education to strengthen support for childbirth and help alleviate the burden of childbearing, parenting and education on families. These measures are widely welcomed and eagerly anticipated.
There are many such measures, but I won't list them all. Thank you for your question.
Shou Xiaoli:
The last question, please.
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