Since the founding of the People's Republic of China 75 years ago, our country has adhered to the people-centered development philosophy, taking improving people's lives and enhancing their well-being as the starting point and foothold, continuously solving prominent problems related to people's vital interests, and continuously reaching new heights in people's living standards.
In the new era and new journey, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core unites and leads the entire Party and people of all ethnic groups in the country to promote historic achievements and changes in the cause of the Party and the state. The achievements of reform and development benefit all people more and fairly, and the sense of gain, happiness, and security of the people continues to increase.
Increase investment in people's livelihood and consolidate the foundation of people's livelihood
Focusing on the forefront of industrial development, we will launch specialized job fairs for key industries such as digital economy, green economy, silver economy, new urbanization, and rural construction, including medicine and health, specialized and innovative industries, advanced manufacturing, and new energy; Combining with the national regional development strategy, carry out regional specialized job fairs
On September 12th, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security launched the "Career Future -2024 Joint Recruitment of College Graduates in Large and Medium sized Cities Autumn Special Event", which will continue until the end of November.
Employment is the most basic livelihood, affecting thousands of households.
Over the past 75 years, from vigorously restoring and developing production, focusing on solving the problem of urban unemployment, to achieving effective linkage between economic development and expanding employment after the reform and opening up, the total employment volume has increased significantly. Furthermore, since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the employment priority strategy has been integrated into all aspects of economic development. China's employment space has continuously expanded, and the employment situation has remained stable. The country with a population of over 1.4 billion has achieved relatively full employment.
In 2023, the number of employed people in China will reach 740.41 million, an increase of 3.1 times compared to 1949. From 2013 to 2023, the cumulative number of new urban employment has exceeded 140 million, and the urban surveyed unemployment rate has remained stable. With the profound adjustment of industrial structure, the employment structure continues to be optimized. In 2023, the proportion of employment in the secondary and tertiary industries in the national employment population will be 29.1% and 48.1%, respectively, an increase of 21.7 and 39.0 percentage points compared to 1952.
Investment efforts demonstrate the warmth of people's livelihood.
This year, governments at all levels have provided "real money and silver" to stabilize employment: the central government has allocated a budget of 66.7 billion yuan for employment subsidies; The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Finance have proposed 11 measures to stabilize employment, including clarifying the integration and optimization of policies for employment subsidies and job expansion subsidies, and merging and implementing policies for one-time employment subsidies and one-time job expansion subsidies; Sichuan will strengthen job stability and expansion as a key focus of promoting employment, and encourage enterprises to release more positions to absorb college graduates; Jiangsu Province implements the socialized job expansion action, developing no less than 100000 job positions; Guangxi carries out skills training in digital economy, advanced manufacturing industry, etc
At the same time, China continues to build a multi-level social security system, and the livelihood security network is gradually woven tightly. Over the past 75 years, from scratch and from small to large, China has gradually built a multi-level and widely covered social security system with a focus on pension, medical, and unemployment insurance. Especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the reform of the social security system has entered a stage of comprehensive coverage and deepening, and the level of social security has significantly improved, building the world's largest social security system.
In the first half of this year, financial departments at all levels continued to optimize the structure of fiscal expenditures and strengthen financial support for basic people's livelihoods. Among them, social security and employment expenditures amounted to 2269.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.2%; Urban and rural community expenditures amounted to 1047.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8%; Education expenditure was 2029.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 0.6%.
To increase investment in people's livelihoods, we should adhere to the principle of taking from the people and using for the people, focus on long-term goals, seek the greatest common denominator, and implement practical, effective, and feasible reform measures to achieve, maintain, and develop the fundamental interests of the people, "said Long Haibo, a researcher at the Development Research Center of the State Council.
Focusing on 'urgent difficulties, worries and expectations' to respond to people's livelihood concerns
Medical insurance has brought hope to our whole family, "said the father of a child with Fabre's disease in Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province. The special medicine needed by the child was included in the national medical insurance drug list through medical insurance negotiations, and the price of one drug was reduced from 12000 yuan to about 3000 yuan. Including medical insurance reimbursement and other insurances such as' welfare insurance ', our personal out of pocket payment is only 40000 yuan per year
Medical security is related to the health and well-being of the people. From the perspective of medical insurance negotiation drugs, it covers commonly used drugs and drugs for special and rare diseases. The number of drugs in the catalog reaches 3088, benefiting 720 million insured patients. Coupled with multiple factors such as negotiated price reductions and medical insurance reimbursements, it has cumulatively reduced the burden on the public by more than 700 billion yuan.
Over the past 75 years, China has made continuous progress in the construction of its medical team and system, from barefoot doctors to an increasingly improved medical talent training system, from the patriotic health movement to the comprehensive reform of public hospitals. At present, China has built the world's largest medical security network, covering over 1.3 billion people.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, with the deepening of the policy of integrating urban and rural medical insurance and the comprehensive implementation of the Healthy China strategy, the problem of difficult and expensive medical treatment for residents has been effectively alleviated, including the comprehensive reform of public hospitals and the improvement and expansion of cross provincial settlement of medical insurance.
China continues to improve its population service system, focusing on the most realistic, urgent, and prominent livelihood issue of "one elderly and one young", to provide for the elderly and raise the young.
From exploring the establishment of a national basic elderly care service list system, to clarifying the construction goals of the elderly care service system through coordination between home-based and community institutions; From streamlining the regulatory mechanism for elderly care services to promoting the healthy development of the silver haired economy... one reform after another is a solid foundation for advancing the construction of the elderly care service system.
After more than 40 years of efforts, especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China has built the world's largest pension insurance system. By the end of 2023, the number of people participating in basic pension insurance nationwide reached 1.066 billion, an increase of 1.009 billion from the end of 1989.
A hundred years of life, established in early childhood education. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China has improved its ability to popularize preschool education, expanded high-quality and inclusive resources, continuously solved pain points such as "difficulty in entering kindergartens" and "high cost of entering kindergartens", continuously built a widely covered, basic and high-quality preschool education public service system, and continuously met the beautiful expectations of the people for preschool education.
Deepening the reform of people's livelihood and creating a better life
In Xiaogang Village, Fengyang, Anhui Province, the family farm of grain grower Cheng Xibing has a standardized seedling raising factory and storage buildings, with over 700 acres of land transferred. In 2023, the net income from grain and business services alone will reach over 700000 yuan.
From insufficient food and clothing to comprehensive prosperity, people's lives have undergone earth shaking changes in the past 75 years.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China has continuously expanded and improved the "development cake", deepened people's livelihood reforms, and made efforts to deepen the reform of the income distribution system and promote the equalization of basic public services.
In 2023, the per capita disposable income of residents in China will reach 39218 yuan, which is 76 times higher than the actual growth in 1949 after deducting price factors, with an average annual growth rate of 6.0%.
Accelerate the construction of affordable housing, fully relax the policy of household registration transfer, ensure the enrollment of migrant children, vigorously develop cultural and sports undertakings... With more equal services and better guarantees, the fruits of reform and development will benefit the general public more fairly and comprehensively, so that the people can have a greater sense of gain in the joint construction and shared development.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China has made significant progress in coordinating urban and rural development, narrowing the urban-rural gap, and promoting new urbanization. The per capita disposable income ratio of urban and rural residents has decreased from 2.88:1 in 2012 to 2.39:1 in 2023.
The urban and rural landscape is constantly changing, making Beautiful China more livable.
——Looking at the countryside, from vigorously carrying out the renovation of dilapidated houses in rural areas to deepening the construction of new rural areas, China has continued to promote the construction of rural living environment since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
——Looking at the city, from the renovation of old residential areas and shantytowns to urban renewal, the housing security system is constantly improving, the affordable housing project is accelerating, people's living conditions are constantly improving, and more people have a place to live and live comfortably.
The per capita housing construction area in urban areas of China has increased from 8.3 square meters in 1949 to over 40 square meters by the end of 2023; Over 64 million sets of various types of affordable housing and shantytown resettlement housing have been built, and more than 150 million people have fulfilled their dream of a peaceful home.
The comprehensive victory in the battle against poverty has made outstanding contributions to the global poverty reduction cause. In the early days of the founding of New China, people lived in extreme poverty. At the end of 1978, there were 770 million impoverished people in rural areas of China, with a poverty incidence rate of 97.5%. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, lifting all impoverished people out of poverty has been regarded as the bottom line task for building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. After continuous efforts, by the end of 2020, all 98.99 million rural poor people under the current standards will be lifted out of poverty, 832 poverty-stricken counties will be lifted out of poverty, 128000 poverty-stricken villages will be listed, and regional overall poverty will be solved, completing the arduous task of eliminating absolute poverty.
Chinese path to modernization focuses on people's livelihood. Looking ahead to the future, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, the whole country will work together to solidly do a good job in ensuring people's livelihoods, and will surely paint a new picture of happy people's livelihoods.