Weaving firmly and densely: China spares no effort to build a security net for people's livelihood

　　Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 1

　　Xinhua News Agency reporter

　　Zhou Yu (pseudonym), a patient with malignant gallbladder tumors in Taizhou, Jiangsu, ushered in an unexpected "timely rain" in December last year-the cost of a chemotherapy course dropped from about 2,640 yuan to about 480 yuan.

　　"The burden has been significantly reduced." Zhou Yu is the fifth batch of beneficiaries of the centralized procurement of drugs organized by the state.

　　From 2019, the "4+7" 11 cities' centralized drug procurement pilots have expanded to the whole country. China has opened the prelude to the state's centralized drug procurement, and hastened to solve problems such as inflated drug prices and subsisting doctors with drugs.

So far, 7 batches of centralized procurement of medicines have been organized, and the average price of the selected drugs has been reduced by more than 50%, and the average price of heart stents and artificial joints has been reduced by more than 80%, with a cumulative cost savings of about 300 billion yuan.

　　Zhou Yu needs drugs to maintain chemotherapy after surgery.

After the centralized procurement of medicines, the price of medicines has been greatly reduced. Based on 4 to 6 courses of treatment, the cost of chemotherapy can be reduced by about 10,000 yuan.

　　Li Shuchun, deputy director of the Medical Management Department of the National Medical Insurance Bureau, believes that centralized procurement has effectively promoted the return of prices of drugs and consumables to a reasonable level.

　　"The people's yearning for a better life is our goal" and "constantly turning the people's yearning for a better life into reality"... Letting the people live a better life is the starting point and goal of all the work of the Communist Party of China, and it is also the tenet of the new era. years of vivid practice.

　　From comprehensively strengthening measures to stabilize employment to deploying and deepening the reform of the education system, from clarifying the major policies and action plans for building a healthy China to promoting the formation of green development methods and lifestyles, major measures have been implemented one after another, and the people-centered development idea has been obtained. Vivid interpretation.

　　"China has continued to make efforts in education for young children, education for learning, income for labor, medical treatment for sickness, support for old age, housing for housing, and support for the weak. The people's livelihood security network has been continuously consolidated and strengthened." Tsinghua University Yang Zhusong, an assistant researcher at the National Conditions Research Institute of the University, said.

　　In the past ten years, China's per capita life expectancy has increased from 74.8 to 78.2 years, and urban employment has increased by more than 13 million people per year, and a total of 55.01 million unemployed people have been reemployed. The world's largest education system, social security system, and medical care system have been established health system.

　　Employment is the foundation of people's livelihood.

China has long placed employment at the top of economic and social development, innovatively implemented employment-first policies, and promoted positive progress in employment.

　　Affected by the epidemic in recent years, employment is under greater pressure.

China continues to increase the implementation of macro policies, improve the burden reduction and relief policies, and steadily promote the task of stabilizing employment.

The latest data show that in the first 11 months of this year, 11.45 million new jobs were created in urban areas across the country, completing the annual target of 11 million ahead of schedule.

　　Xing Wei, 24, joined Wuxi Shennan Circuit Co., Ltd. after graduating from Taiyuan University of Technology this year.

He is very satisfied with the job of this professional counterpart circuit engineer.

"Successfully getting the job opportunities you want is inseparable from the training provided by the school." He said.

　　Liang Jing, head of the Employment Guidance Section of the Student Employment Guidance Center of Taiyuan University of Technology, said that the school holds lectures, training, resume contests, and "My Job Search" essay contests related to job hunting, and students are free to participate according to their needs.

"These activities focus on practicality, through interaction and experience, to enhance students' employability and confidence."

　　Grasping employment, in the final analysis, depends on cultivating and developing enterprises.

According to data from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, as of the end of September, policies such as reducing social insurance premium rates for unemployment and work-related injuries, issuing job stabilization refunds, one-time job training subsidies, and one-time job expansion subsidies have reduced the burden on enterprises by more than 280 billion yuan.

　　The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly stated that "strengthen the employment priority policy, improve the employment promotion mechanism, and promote high-quality and full employment."

　　Experts suggest that, based on China's large population, weak foundation, and unbalanced development, we should focus on improving the distribution system, improving the social security system, and breaking the dual urban-rural governance structure to make up for the shortcomings of people's livelihood.

　　Not long ago, five departments including the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Ministry of Finance jointly issued the "Personal Pension Implementation Measures".

　　The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security stated that the implementation of the personal pension system is an inevitable requirement to meet the multi-level and diversified old-age security needs of the people, and it is conducive to adding an additional accumulation on the basis of basic pension insurance, enterprise annuity, and occupational annuity. , You can have another income after retirement, so that your life in old age is more secure.

　　"Constructing a coordinated institutional system for primary distribution, redistribution, and third distribution" and "improving a multi-level social security system that covers the whole people, balances urban and rural areas, is fair, unified, safe and regulated, and sustainable"... The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China A series of important deployments have been made to "enhance people's livelihood and well-being" and "improve people's quality of life".

　　The state organizes the continuous procurement of coronary stents, releases three national standards related to the safety of food contact containers, organizes the elderly nutrition improvement campaign across the country, and launches the "2023 College Graduates Campus Recruitment Month" series of activities to promote accurate docking between supply and demand , from five aspects to support the employment and entrepreneurship of migrant workers and people who have been lifted out of poverty, and introduce individual income tax policies to support residents to buy houses... Recently, China's key livelihood areas have introduced policies to accelerate the establishment of a dense livelihood security network.

　　In Zibo, Shandong, the government deployed a total of 68,000 "love epidemic prevention kits", which were distributed by districts, counties and communities according to the situation; in Fuzhou, Fujian, the first batch of 10,000 "health kits" containing antipyretics, antigen detection reagents and other materials In Shenzhen, Guangdong, some nucleic acid sampling kiosks have been turned into "fever consultation rooms", and the convenience of community residents in seeking medical treatment has improved... In the face of the new crown epidemic, various regions and departments are actively solving the problem of people's medical treatment. .

　　"Continuously solving the current problems is to prepare and pave the way for the realization of long-term goals." Yang Zhusong said that the value of Chinese-style modernization is to share the fruits of development with the people. Economic development is the first driving force to improve people's livelihood. Great investment in people's livelihood.

　　It's winter, and the lowest temperature in Zuoquan County, Shanxi Province has dropped below zero, but the home of resident Zhang Zhihua is warm and harmonious.

　　"The government regards the heating and cooling of the common people as a major matter of ensuring people's livelihood. This year, heating is provided 10 days earlier, and the heating fee is not high, only 15 yuan per square meter." He said.

　　Zuoquan County is located in the Taihang Mountains, and its annual temperature is lower than that of surrounding counties.

The normal heating time in winter lasts for 5 months from November 1st to March 31st of the following year.

Considering that the temperature in the same period of this year is lower than that of previous years, the Zuoquan county government decided to advance the heating for 10 days and delay the heating for 10 days after comprehensive research and judgment. The extra 20 days of heating will be paid by the government.

　　Shijiazhuang started heating 5 days in advance, and Lanzhou New District started heating 10 days in advance... Facing the early arrival of winter, many places do not charge citizens for heating during the extended period of heating, and "heating welfare" warms thousands of households.

　　The next five years will be a critical period for the start of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way. Among the main goals and tasks, people's livelihood is an important aspect, such as the basic synchronization between the growth of residents' income and economic growth, the basic synchronization between the increase of labor remuneration and the increase of labor productivity, and the equalization of basic public services. The level of socialization has been significantly improved, and the multi-level social security system has become more complete.

　　"The new measures for people's livelihood deployed in the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the new picture of people's livelihood are the confidence and commitment of the Chinese government to the continuous improvement of people's livelihood. With the introduction of more measures to benefit people's livelihood and warm people's hearts, the people's sense of gain, The sense of happiness and security will continue to increase," Yang Zhusong said.

(Reporters Zhou Wenqi, Wang Xuetao, Yang Dingmiao, Qiu Bingqing)