(Economic Observation) The Central Economic Work Conference on Improving Public Services in Permanent Residences Targets People's Livelihood Concerns Accurately
China News Service, Beijing, December 11 (Zhao Bin) The Central Economic Work Conference held in Beijing from December 8 to 10 pointed out that it is necessary to coordinate the promotion of economic development and people's livelihood protection, and improve the permanent residence to provide basic public services.
Improve the public service policy system, and accurately provide basic public services in areas where the people are most concerned about, such as education, medical care, elderly care, and housing.
Wen Laicheng, executive director of the China Finance-China Securities Pengyuan Institute of Local Finance Investment and Financing of the Central University of Finance and Economics, said that improving the basic public service system provided by permanent residence is of great significance to maintaining the country's sustainable economic, high-quality and steady development and achieving common prosperity.
China is at the stage of continuing urbanization. Only by improving permanent residence to provide basic public services can it further meet the needs of social and economic development, develop new urbanization, and reduce the income gap between members of the society to help achieve common prosperity.
At the same time, he also emphasized that the provision of basic public services and economic development in a sound permanent residence must form a coordinated system structure, otherwise it will bring negative factors to the steady economic development.
Ni Pengfei, director of the Center for Urban and Competitiveness Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that the provision of basic public services by permanent residence should be generally adopted by many countries, especially developed countries and regions.
As urbanization enters the second half of the process, the strong demand for rural migrant labor has changed from "to make a living in the city" to "to live a better life in the city."
Ni Pengfei said that if the permanent residence cannot provide fair basic public services in education, medical care, sanitation, housing, etc., it will increase the expenditure of labor members and reduce the enthusiasm for labor mobility, which will increase the risk of labor gaps in cities and enterprises. , It will also increase the income gap among members of society.
Wen Laicheng believes that to improve the basic public services provided by the permanent residence, we must first solve the funding problem from three aspects.
The first is to increase the investment in basic public services; the second is to optimize the structure of fiscal expenditure; the third is to strengthen fund supervision and improve the efficiency of fund use.
At the same time, institutionalization and institutional innovation are important guarantees for a sound permanent residence to provide basic public services.
Ni Pengfei believes that the proposal of "providing basic public services by permanent residence" as a formal system is an upgraded version of the full coverage of basic public services and the equal coverage of the permanent population or the equalization of basic public services between the permanent population and the registered population. It is a new formulation in China. It is also an important institutional innovation.
He believes that it is of great significance to establish and improve the basic public service system provided by permanent residence. It uses the form of formal system construction to construct the system and service system for the supply of basic public service space throughout the country, and at the same time, it also provides the main body of public service supply in the form of system construction. Responsibilities are assigned to governments at all levels of permanent residence, and corresponding assessment mechanisms and accountability mechanisms are formulated to ensure the effectiveness of the implementation of the system.
He pointed out that this can be institutionally reversed by the government of some population inflows, out of interest considerations, delaying the settlement of basic public services for new citizens, and it is helpful for promoting people-centric urbanization, releasing the potential of urbanization, and promoting the steady and high-quality sustainable economy of China. Development is of great significance.
Ni Pengfei believes that with the establishment of a sound system for providing basic public services in permanent residences and the implementation of the "policy-based" detailed plan, existing problems in education, medical care, housing, and elderly care will be gradually improved and further resolved in 2022. The economic development headed by "stability" will bring more people's livelihood and welfare to ordinary Chinese people.
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