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The Ministry of finance has made clear the focus of this year's reform - the government will increase its efforts to purchase public health services

2022-04-26   

Recently, the Ministry of Finance issued a notice to deploy the key work of the reform of government purchased services in 2022, and further strengthen the reform of government purchased services in key areas such as urban and rural community public services and public health services. Government procurement of services refers to the services that are within the scope of their responsibilities and suitable for market-oriented provision by state organs at all levels, which are entrusted to qualified service providers in accordance with government procurement methods and procedures, and paid to them according to factors such as service quantity and quality. Statistics show that in 2020, the national government procurement scale was 3697.06 billion yuan, and the procurement scale of goods, projects and services were 917.58 billion yuan, 1749.24 billion yuan and 1030.24 billion yuan respectively, accounting for 24.8%, 47.3% and 27.9% respectively. It can be seen that service procurement plays an important role in government procurement. In recent years, covid-19 has played an important role in improving people's lives, promoting economic and social development, and helping to prevent and control new crown pneumonia. However, in the process of promoting the reform, there are still some problems, such as the management of government purchase service contract is not standardized, the performance management needs to be further strengthened, and the grasp of purchase boundary is not accurate enough. It is necessary to further strengthen the reform of government purchase service and standardize the management of government purchase service. "In order to support the cultivation and development of market players, strengthen and innovate the social governance model, turn over what is suitable for the market to the market, and the government will no longer take charge of everything, which is conducive to improving the efficiency of public service supply. In particular, it has defined the key areas of urban and rural communities, public health, basic elderly care, employment and education, and it is expected that the accuracy will be further improved." Said Wang Zecai, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of financial sciences. The Ministry of finance requires that we coordinate the needs of the masses and financial permission, adhere to the principle of doing our best and acting according to our ability, take effective measures to further promote the reform of government procurement of services in key areas, continuously improve the quality and efficiency of public services, continue to improve people's well-being, effectively support the cultivation and development of market players, and effectively strengthen and innovate social governance. He Daixin, director of the Financial Research Office of the Institute of financial strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that the increasing efforts of the government to purchase services in key areas are an important deployment to deal with short-term shocks and focus on long-term development, which reflects the characteristics of the gradual inclination of China's Government to the field of people's livelihood. In terms of actively promoting the government's purchase of urban and rural community public services, the Ministry of Finance proposed that in accordance with the relevant requirements of the State Council on the construction of urban and rural community service system during the 14th Five Year Plan period, in the fields of community pension, nursery education, disability assistance, correction, care for minors, employment, health, education, culture, sports, science popularization, law, emergency and other public services, Encourage the government to purchase services and hand over the services suitable for market-oriented provision to social forces, so as to improve the efficiency of urban and rural community services and promote the construction of urban and rural community public service system. At the same time, the government should strengthen the purchase of public health services. To adapt covid-19 needs of new crown pneumonia prevention and control, encourage the government to purchase nucleic acid detection, disinfection and sterilization, epidemic prevention and other epidemic prevention and control work through the government procurement service, and other public health service work to improve the ability to deal with public health emergencies. In addition, promote the government's purchase of basic elderly care services. We will actively respond to the aging of the population, encourage qualified regions to practically expand the fields and scope of government purchase of elderly care services, optimize the supply of elderly care services in urban and rural areas, and support social forces to provide day care, meal and cleaning assistance, rehabilitation care and other services. "We should advocate standardized, refined and information-based management of government purchase of services. On the one hand, according to the reform idea from horizontal to edge and vertical to the end, the setting of guiding directories should be standardized and adjusted from the central budget department to the local financial department. On the other hand, we should strengthen the management of government purchase of services contracts, require the government to strictly abide by laws and regulations, and clarify the relevant responsibilities, supervision and management of the purchasing subject and the undertaking subject To prevent all kinds of risks in the performance of the contract and deal with the stubborn disease of "emphasizing purchase and neglecting management". At the same time, we will improve the budget management of the government's purchase of services and resolutely "no budget, no purchase." Wang Zecai said. He Daixin said that the healthy development of government procurement services can be promoted through the establishment of rules and regulations and standardized management. "Government procurement services can not only increase people's well-being through government expenditure, but also an important tool for the current active fiscal policy. A series of key work this year reflects the characteristics of more accurate fiscal policy." (Xinhua News Agency)

Edit:He Chuanning Responsible editor:Su Suiyue

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