How to provide a safety net for disadvantaged groups? How can elderly people achieve "doorstep" elderly care? How can civil affairs work assist grassroots social governance? At the series of themed press conferences on "Promoting High Quality Development" held by the State Council Information Office on the 23rd, relevant officials from the Ministry of Civil Affairs responded to relevant hot issues. Building a safety net for disadvantaged groups and providing social assistance is an important institutional arrangement to alleviate their difficulties, benefit their livelihoods, and promote harmony. It is related to the basic livelihood and basic necessities of life for disadvantaged groups. Minister of Civil Affairs Lu Zhiyuan stated at the press conference that the Ministry of Civil Affairs regards safeguarding the basic rights and interests of civil service recipients, especially the vast number of special and disadvantaged groups, as its top priority, and focuses on ensuring basic needs, protecting the bottom line, preventing risks, and promoting development. In recent years, China has established a hierarchical and classified social assistance system, using big data and other means to strengthen dynamic monitoring of low-income populations, and timely warning and assistance. To achieve a good bottom, targeted rescue is needed to achieve precise rescue. Lu Zhiyuan introduced that the Ministry of Civil Affairs and relevant departments should strengthen information sharing, use data comparison, especially the use of "big data+iron feet", to promote the combination of "people finding policies" and "policies finding people" in social assistance. The Ministry of Civil Affairs also guides local governments to implement specialized assistance in areas such as healthcare, education, housing, and employment according to the principle of "filling in what is lacking". At the same time, it deploys and carries out national pilot projects for service-oriented social assistance, improves the linkage mechanism between government assistance and charitable assistance, and better meets the multi-level and differentiated assistance needs of disadvantaged groups. Disabled people are a special group facing special difficulties and require special care and attention. There are 85 million disabled people in China, with over 38 million holding certificates. The system of living subsidies for disabled people in difficulty and nursing subsidies for severely disabled people is an important special welfare system for disabled people. As of August this year, 11.91 million disabled people in difficulty and 16.074 million severely disabled people have been benefited. Wang Jinhua, Director of the Social Affairs Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, introduced that the next step will be to guide various regions to improve the dynamic adjustment mechanism of subsidy standards, gradually increase subsidy standards, and reduce the burden on disabled people with living difficulties, severely disabled people and their families; Optimize the subsidy application method, strengthen convenient service measures such as "inter provincial communication", "full online service", and "proactive service". Accelerate the improvement of the elderly care service system. By the end of 2023, the elderly population aged 60 and above in China will reach 297 million. Lu Zhiyuan introduced at the press conference that in recent years, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has focused on the needs of the masses for elderly care services, accelerated the construction of the elderly care service system, and initially established China's elderly care service system, promoting four transformations in elderly care services. Firstly, there is a shift from serving elderly people with special difficulties to serving all elderly people. Secondly, there is a shift from government supply to diversified supply from government, market, and society. Thirdly, there is a shift from institutional elderly care to coordinated home and community institutions. Fourthly, there is a shift from providing a safety net and daily care to a more high-quality combination of medical and elderly care services, "said Lu Zhiyuan. Meal assistance is a service demand that ranks high among the elderly. Some elderly people, especially those who are elderly, empty nesters, living alone, or disabled, face difficulties in cooking and eating. It is reported that in recent years, elderly meal assistance services in China have achieved positive results. Vice Minister of Civil Affairs Tang Chengpei introduced that this year the central government has allocated 300 million yuan in guiding funds to support the development of elderly meal assistance services; Each region provides preferential measures for elderly meal assistance services based on its own financial resources and actual situation. The service network is constantly expanding in various regions, and some places have formed a 15 minute elderly meal assistance service circle. In addition, China's elderly meal assistance models are becoming increasingly diverse, exploring and forming models such as elderly care institutions+meal assistance, social catering+commissioned services, community canteens+elderly dining tables, central kitchens+professional delivery, online platform ordering+offline delivery, and dining tables+desks according to local conditions. It is understood that in the next step, the Ministry of Civil Affairs will comply with the habits and wishes of the vast majority of elderly people for home-based elderly care, cultivate and establish community elderly care service institutions, and provide on-site services such as meal assistance, bathing assistance, cleaning assistance, walking assistance, medical assistance, and emergency assistance; Give full play to the supporting role of community elderly care services, develop community day care, community elderly canteens, rehabilitation nursing and other elderly service projects, so that elderly people can retire at their doorstep. Actively leveraging the role of social organizations and charitable forces, social organizations are active on the front line of grassroots social governance and play an important role. It is reported that the number of various social organizations in China has reached 883000. In terms of supporting technological innovation, the Ministry of Civil Affairs actively cultivates and develops science and technology related social organizations. Currently, there are approximately 24000 social organizations active in the forefront of science and technology and research across the country, of which 530 are registered with the Ministry of Civil Affairs. In terms of assisting rural revitalization, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has mobilized and guided willing and capable social organizations to conduct paired assistance with 160 key counties for rural revitalization in the country. As of now, nearly 30000 rural revitalization projects have been implemented with the participation of various levels and types of social organizations across the country, with an investment of over 35 billion yuan. In recent years, the public's attention, discussion, and participation in public welfare and charity have been increasing. It is reported that there are currently over 15000 registered and recognized charitable organizations nationwide, and public welfare charity has played an important role in rural revitalization, science, education, culture, health, ecological protection, emergency rescue and other fields. Since the beginning of this year, various charitable organizations have donated nearly 3 billion yuan in funds and goods to key disaster stricken provinces. Liu Xitang, spokesperson and director of the General Office of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, introduced that the next step will focus on implementing the Charity Law, adhering to the principle of "promoting and regulating on one hand", and promoting the high-quality development of public welfare and charity industry from three aspects: strengthening institutional construction, strengthening charity supervision, and improving guidance and support mechanisms. We need to study and formulate policy documents to promote the high-quality development of charity in the new era, and establish systems and rules for public welfare and charity activities; We should also continue to implement the "Sunshine Charity" project and accelerate the construction of a comprehensive regulatory mechanism for the charity industry; We also need to promote modern public welfare and charity concepts, especially by implementing various tax incentives and incentive support measures in conjunction with relevant departments, constantly innovating and expanding channels for charitable participation. (New Society)