China News Service, February 24. According to the website of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, recently, four departments including the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and the China Disabled Persons' Federation jointly issued the "14th Five-Year Plan" on promoting the "14th Five-Year Plan" for elderly families with special difficulties. Notice on Reconstruction of Aging" (Minban Fa [2022] No. 9, hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"), which proposes to support 2 million families of elderly, disabled, and disabled elderly people with special difficulties to implement appropriate aging renovation during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, consolidate the The basic status of family pension will further improve the safety and convenience of home life for the elderly.
The "Notice" focuses on special groups and the public's concerns, and requires all localities to continue to implement the "Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the Implementation of the Home-Aging Renovation Project for the Elderly" (Min Fa [2020] No. 86) by 9 departments including the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Convenience, safe toileting and bathing, convenient kitchen operation, improvement of home environment, intelligent safety monitoring, and adaptation of assistive devices" are the main goals, and the elderly, disabled, and disabled elderly families who are included in the scope of decentralized support for extremely poor people will be implemented at home. , where conditions permit, the scope of the transformation object can be gradually expanded to the elderly, disabled, left-behind, empty-nest, disabled elderly families and special family planning families among the urban and rural subsistence allowance objects (the above objects are collectively referred to as "the families of the elderly with special difficulties") Wait.
The "Notice" determines the transformation tasks of each province (autonomous region and municipality directly under the Central Government) on the basis of comprehensive consideration of factors such as the number of scattered supporters in extreme poverty and the number of middle-aged and elderly people in subsistence-subsistence families, requiring county-level civil affairs departments to strictly follow the procedures of accepting applications, evaluating design, Construction supervision, completion acceptance, data filing, performance evaluation and other steps to promote the work of aging-appropriate renovation, and strengthen the standardized management of the whole process.
The "Notice" requires all relevant departments to clarify the division of responsibilities, strengthen work cohesion, and focus on work effectiveness.
Civil affairs departments at all levels should play a leading role, strengthen overall planning and coordination, and organically combine the family-appropriate aging transformation of the elderly with special difficulties and the organization and implementation of basic home-based and community-based elderly care services improvement actions.
The financial department shall, in accordance with the regulations, support the aging-appropriate transformation of the families of the elderly with special difficulties, and strengthen the supervision of the use of funds.
The housing and urban-rural development department should support the civil affairs department to promote the transformation of old urban communities and the transformation of dilapidated houses in rural areas to simultaneously carry out aging-suitable transformation of elderly families with special difficulties in areas where conditions permit.
Disabled people's federations at all levels should do a good job of linking up the barrier-free renovation of the families of the disabled with severe difficulties and the aging-appropriate renovation of the families of the elderly with special difficulties.
It is clear that the local people's government is the main body responsible for the transformation of elderly families with special difficulties during the "14th Five-Year Plan". It is necessary to improve the investment mechanism, take multiple measures to strengthen supervision and guidance, and ensure that the "14th Five-Year Plan" goal of 2 million households is completed.