Chinanews.com, Beijing, January 1 (Reporter Li Jingze) The reporter learned from the 14 National Civil Affairs Work Conference on the 14th that in 2024, China will accelerate the construction of the basic pension service system, and all provinces have issued implementation plans and a list of basic pension services.
It is reported that as of the third quarter of 2023, there are 3,40 various elderly care institutions and facilities and 820.6 million beds across the country. As of the end of December 2023, a total of 12,23 home care beds have been built, 5,41 elderly people have been provided with home care services, and a total of 8,148,28 homes for the elderly in difficulty have been renovated.
On the same day, the 2024 National Civil Affairs Work Conference announced multiple sets of livelihood data. In terms of the construction of the social assistance system, as of the end of November 2023, more than 11 million low-income people were dynamically monitored nationwide, 6600.4044 million people were covered by the subsistence allowance, and the average standard of urban subsistence allowance was 9 yuan per person per month, and the average standard of rural subsistence allowance was 779 yuan per person per month, an increase of 615.4% and 5.7% respectively over the same period of the previous year.
In terms of child welfare and protection of rights and interests, as of the third quarter of 2023, a total of 3,14 orphans and 6,38 de facto unsupported children across the country have been covered by the scope of protection, and the basic living security standards for centralized and decentralized orphans and de facto unsupported children have reached 8,1885.4 yuan per person per month, 1439,9.1439 yuan per person per month, and 9,5.2 yuan per person per month, respectively, an increase of 6.6%, 6.6%, and <>.<>% over the same period of the previous year.
In addition, the welfare policy for persons with disabilities has been effectively implemented. The Ministry of Civil Affairs has basically established a dynamic adjustment mechanism for the two subsidies for persons with disabilities and a working mechanism for data verification and supervision at the ministerial level, and has generally carried out convenient services such as "full online service", "cross-provincial general service" and "active service". By the end of December 2023, 12.1182 million people with disabilities and 1573.3 million people with severe disabilities had benefited respectively.
In 2023, China will orderly promote the "inter-provincial and intra-regional general services" of marriage registration, which has been expanded to 21 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), covering 78.5% of the country's total population. As of the end of December 2023, a total of 12,25 couples have been registered across provinces throughout the year.
In 2023, the Ministry of Civil Affairs will deploy and carry out special actions for the high-quality development of industry associations and chambers of commerce, reducing the burden on enterprises by about 31.91 billion yuan and benefiting about 61,6 enterprises. In 2023, social organizations across the country will recruit more than 18,4 college graduates.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs has also deployed the "Famous Rural Action", naming and renaming 15,6 rural place names, setting up 20,2 place name signs and 957,5,2023 door (household) signs, effectively serving the rural revitalization strategy. As of the end of December 12, a total of 4,6 geographical names have been recorded in the national geographical names information database, and 64,5 geographical names have been updated. (ENDS)