China News Service, August 17th. The National Health and Medical Commission held a press conference on the "Guiding Opinions on Further Improving and Implementing Active Birth Support Measures" on the 17th. Deputy Director and First-level Inspector of the Social Development Department of the National Development and Reform Commission Hao Fuqing introduced at the meeting that in order to support the development of childcare services, the "Guiding Opinions" focused on five key words: "basic, inclusive, investment, charging, and burden reduction".
A reporter asked at the meeting: Last year, the Central Government's "Decision on Optimizing the Birth Policy" made the development of an inclusive childcare service system an important part of active birth support measures. Related work deployment.
I would like to ask, what special considerations are there in the development of inclusive childcare, and what are the innovative highlights of the policy?
In this regard, Hao Fuqing said that domestic surveys have shown that unattended infants and young children are the primary factor hindering childbirth. About 1/3 of the families in the city have childcare needs, but in reality, the supply is still insufficient, especially for inclusive benefits. Sexual service provision is indeed a shortcoming.
Various studies, including international experience, have also shown that the development of childcare services has an obvious effect on reducing the burden on families and increasing their willingness to bear children.
In order to support the development of childcare services, the "Guiding Opinions" focus on five key words, which are "basic, inclusive, investment, charging, and burden reduction".
The basic is to strengthen basic public services.
The "Guiding Opinions" proposes to expand the function of community nursery services, improve basic public service facilities such as infant care, implement public nursery service capacity building projects, and highlight the basic livelihood guarantee for young children.
Inclusiveness is to focus on increasing inclusive services.
Develop public nursery institutions, encourage social forces to invest, support employers, build community service outlets, and explore family nursery models. Conditional kindergartens can also be extended downwards. For infants and young children aged 2-3, through the above channels, encourage multi-party participation, and effectively expand the supply of inclusive childcare services.
Investment means increasing investment support.
Expand the scope of application for nursery construction projects, provide construction subsidies for investment within the central budget, and give appropriate support to eligible inclusive projects.
Through the support and guidance of central investment, local governments and social forces will be driven to increase investment and jointly strengthen the capacity building of the childcare service industry.
Charges are to standardize the charges for various services.
It is clarified that the charging standards of public nursery institutions shall be formulated by the local government, the supervision of the fees of inclusive nursery institutions shall be strengthened, and the price of nursery services shall be reasonably determined.
To reduce the burden is to reduce the operating burden of the organization.
In addition to the special support for investment in the central budget, the water, electricity and heat of childcare institutions are implemented at the price of residents' living. All localities should also introduce a package of policies to support the development of childcare institutions. Emergency response mechanism to implement relief policies during the epidemic.