Chinanews.com, February 1st. The General Office of the National Development and Reform Commission, the General Office of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the General Office of the National Health Commission recently issued the "Notice on Establishing a Mechanism for Actively Responding to the Key Contact Cities of Population Ageing". By 2022, we will develop a number of areas in the country that are active in innovation and adapt to the process of economic and social development and population aging, and cultivate a number of healthy and elderly care industry clusters with strong driving force and excellent economic and social benefits.
The following is the full text of the notice:
Notice on the establishment of a mechanism to actively respond to the aging of the population
Development and Reform Office (2021) No. 37
All provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and cities under separate state planning, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Development and Reform Commission, Civil Affairs Department (bureau), and Health Commission:
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "National Medium- and Long-Term Plan for Active Response to Population Aging" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"), which puts forward clear requirements for the development of comprehensive innovation and pilot projects to actively respond to population aging.
In the coming period, my country’s aging degree will continue to deepen, which will profoundly affect the overall economic and social development. The response to population aging has higher requirements, more tasks, and greater urgency. It is necessary to encourage distinctive and representative regions to explore multiple areas, Multi-dimensional system innovation, with point and surface to form a demonstration driving effect.
The work notice for establishing a mechanism to actively respond to the aging of the key cities is as follows:
1. General requirements for establishing a contact mechanism
Focusing on the service system, institutional mechanism, element support, business model, and age-appropriate environment, and combining innovation-driven, expanding opening, optimizing the business environment, strengthening social governance and other requirements to explore, provide the country with replicable and extendable Actively respond to the experience of population aging.
Strive to develop a number of innovative and active regions in the country that are compatible with the process of economic and social development and population aging by 2022, cultivate a number of healthy and elderly care industry clusters with strong driving force and excellent economic and social benefits, and form a number of distinctive and practical regions. The effective innovation model and typical experience, explore a batch of universally applicable, pragmatic and effective policy measures to deal with population aging.
2. Work plan for establishing contact mechanism
Actively responding to the aging population is a systematic project. It is necessary to closely follow the content of the "Plan" in contact with the city. It should not only make overall plans and comprehensive explorations, but also combine the actual situation and highlight the key points. In particular, it must focus on revitalizing existing resources and promoting local party and government agencies and state-owned enterprises. The transformation of public institution training and recuperation institutions into elderly service facilities is an important construction content, and it will better play the role of pioneering demonstration from point to point.
One is to promote service system innovation.
Strengthen the government's bottom-line function of basic protection, strengthen local financial investment protection, and realize that the basic public services for the elderly should be guaranteed.
Coordinate and integrate various funding channels for elderly care services, and establish and improve a cost-sharing mechanism for elderly care services involving the government, society and individuals.
Incorporate elderly care into the overall plan for national economic and social development, and make a special plan or implementation plan for the construction of the "14th Five-Year" elderly care service system.
Establish a basic old-age service system and improve the basic old-age service system.
Promote the coordinated development of elderly care services in home and community institutions, support families to undertake elderly care functions, promote wide coverage of home care services, strengthen the construction of the backbone network of community elderly care services, support the full development of institutional elderly care, focus on increasing the proportion of nursing beds, and promote medical care and health care Services are deeply integrated in homes, communities, and institutions, and encourage the development of inclusive elderly care services and rural mutual assistance for elderly care.
Strengthen the construction of the health service system for the elderly, and further promote the development of integrated medical care.
Deepen the reform of public elderly care institutions, adhere to the charity attribute, and introduce a comprehensive evaluation and waiting system for public elderly care institutions.
We will improve the management system of publicly-built and privately-owned elderly care institutions, promote market-oriented reforms in the field of elderly care services, and give priority to supporting elderly care service projects oriented by publicly built, privately operated and inclusive elderly care.
Effectively and orderly promote the transformation of training and recuperation institutions of local party and government agencies and state-owned enterprises and institutions into elderly care service facilities, and formulate policies and measures such as access and management.
The second is to promote institutional innovation.
Regarding the promotion of the transformation of training and recuperation resources and the development of elderly care as the key content of system and mechanism innovation, scientifically and reasonably set the specific conditions and standards for the transformation of training and recuperation resources into elderly service facilities based on geographical location, surrounding facilities, infrastructure, and operating conditions; strengthen the transformation The operation and management of elderly care service institutions mainly adopts the transfer and integration method, and the state-owned capital operating company integrates resources and makes overall planning; during the transformation process, places where conditions permit can adopt authorized operations, capital injections, capital contributions (shares), Support the construction of pension projects by means of operating subsidies.
Set up special funds to increase investment protection.
At the same time, there are options in responding to international cooperation on population aging, expanding corporate annuities, improving insurance and other financing mechanisms, playing the role of social organizations related to the elderly, strengthening social preferential treatment for the elderly, developing childcare services for infants and young children, and building a family support system. Carry out reform explorations with rich content and various forms.
The third is to promote factors to support innovation.
Formulate plans for the construction of elderly care service facilities, prioritize the arrangement of land for the construction of new elderly care facilities in the annual land use plan, and arrange them in a reasonable location based on actual conditions.
Support the use of stock resources to develop elderly care in various ways, coordinate and promote the construction of elderly care service facilities in the construction of urban residential communities and the transformation of old urban communities, and encourage and support vacant public rental houses and state-owned enterprise properties for free or low-paid elderly care purposes.
Under the premise of not violating the national mandatory standards and regulations, in accordance with local actual conditions, develop construction standards, guidelines and implementation methods for the transformation of stock houses and facilities into facilities for the elderly, and establish and improve the “one matter, one discussion” mechanism, and centrally dispose of stock houses and facilities on a regular basis. Issues such as handling of facility renovation procedures, and avoiding neighbors' interference.
Innovate financial support for the development of the elderly care industry, expand financing channels for elderly care service institutions, and expand the scope of loan collaterals.
Improve the multi-level social pension insurance system and enrich commercial pension insurance products.
Accelerate the construction of a human resource team that serves the elderly, encourage and guide ordinary universities and vocational colleges to expand the scale of professional personnel training in geriatrics, rehabilitation, nursing, elderly services and management, and improve the elderly service training system.
Improve the income level and social status of senior care workers, and explore the establishment of subsidies and honor incentive systems for senior care workers.
The fourth is to promote business model innovation.
Clarify the overall idea of the development of the elderly care industry, combine the local industrial foundation, promote the chain extension project of the elderly care industry chain, develop and expand the elderly care industry cluster, and cultivate new business models and new models.
Support the development of industrial parks for the health and elderly care industry, support the development of rehabilitation aids, food and drugs, clothing and apparel, elderly care, smart health and elderly care, nursing care, leisure and entertainment, cultural tourism and other elderly products and services by enterprises, improve the innovative design ecosystem, and promote supplies Manufacturing quality upgrade.
We will vigorously support the senior care enterprises and promote the development of brand chain.
Promote the development of "Internet + elderly care services" and "Internet + elderly health services", support large-scale Internet companies to introduce elderly care services and elderly health services, support the development of high-quality elderly care institutions on the Internet platform, and better play the empowering role of information technology.
Promote the integrated development of the elderly care industry with education and training, health, sports, culture, tourism, housekeeping and other happiness industries, and support regions with conditions to create destinations for living and elderly care.
The fifth is to promote innovation in an environment suitable for the elderly.
Fully consider the needs of the elderly's social interaction and daily life, promote the renovation of homes suitable for aging, carry out renovations for the aging of urban and rural old communities, old buildings, public places, public transportation and other facilities and equipment, strengthen the construction of a livable environment, and vigorously build a friendly environment for the elderly Type community.
Complement and complete the community elderly care service facilities and the grassroots elderly work team, and provide hardware and software support for the elderly in the neighborhood to provide for the elderly.
Effectively solve the difficulties of the elderly in using smart technology, and adhere to the combination of traditional services and smart innovation.
Carry out home community visits focusing on empty-nest, left-behind, disabled, severely disabled, and family planning elderly people.
Vigorously develop universities for the elderly and support the development of various forms of cultural and sports activities for the elderly.
Actively carry out education on the national conditions of the aging of the population and education activities on the theme of filial piety and respect for the elderly, forming a good atmosphere for the participation of the elderly, family, society and the government.
3. Work arrangements for establishing a contact mechanism
The work of key cities is coordinated by the development and reform commissions of all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), led by development and reform departments at all levels, and promoted jointly with civil affairs, health and other departments.
(1) Time and scope.
The work on key cities will be implemented in phases, with county-level and above administrative regions as the unit.
In the future, according to the work progress and the focus of industry development, timely adjustment of the next stage task arrangement.
(2) Determine the main conditions for key contact cities.
Key contact cities should meet the following conditions: first, the party committee and government attach great importance to and support the work of key contact cities; second, have the work force compatible with the tasks of key contact cities, and relevant departments have a strong sense of reform and innovation and work enthusiasm; Third, it can form a working mechanism led by the development and reform department and promoted by relevant departments; fourth, it has the foundation to actively respond to the aging of the population and build an elderly-friendly city.
In accordance with the requirements of this plan, the development and reform commissions of all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) are requested to actively organize declarations in areas with good basic conditions, strong willingness to reform, great development potential, and distinctive characteristics in accordance with the development status and trends of local population aging.
In principle, each province (region, city) should include different levels when reporting.
(3) Work plan formulation.
The development and reform commissions of all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) shall guide key cities to work out specific construction plans.
The plan should include key connections to the city's background, work ideas and goals, work content, method steps, expected results, safeguard measures, etc.
The plan should have clear thinking, reasonable positioning, clear goals, specific results, highlight local representativeness, and highlight the awareness of reform and innovation. Generally, it should be comprehensive in terms of service system innovation, business model innovation, element support innovation, age-friendly environment innovation, institutional mechanism innovation, etc. To carry out, you can also choose to focus on some construction tasks, and you can also add other content according to actual needs.
The development and reform commissions of all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) shall submit the list of key contact cities and work plans to the provincial people's government for review and approval, and then submit them to the National Development and Reform Commission before February 20, 2021.
The National Development and Reform Commission will work with the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the National Health Commission and other relevant departments to make overall consideration of different regions, different types and different levels of cities, and determine a list of key cities to contact.
(4) Organization and implementation.
Establish a long-term contact mechanism between the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the National Health Commission to cope with the aging of the population and promote the implementation of policies and reform measures related to the aging of the population.
Carry out annual progress and results announcements and exchanges in a timely manner.
Promote the transformation and utilization of exploration results to provide reference for national policy formulation.
Promote the "pairing" of leading enterprises and key connected city projects, and improve the industrialization level of local elderly-related fields.
Development and reform departments at all levels should attach great importance to the construction of key cities, establish a multi-party linkage working mechanism with relevant departments and cities, grasp the work progress, ensure the quality of work, and promote the orderly development of key cities.