China News Service, Beijing, March 9 (Li Jinlei, Xu Xueying) The second session of the 14th National People's Congress held a people's livelihood themed press conference on the 9th. The popularity of the event did not diminish, and it was still hard to find a place.

　　At 3 p.m., the press conference started on time.

Employment, housing, education, disease control...a series of issues related to the vital interests of the people have been thrown to the "top leaders" of China's four departments.

On March 9, the second session of the 14th National People's Congress held a press conference in Beijing.

Minister of Education Huai Jinpeng, Minister of Human Resources and Social Security Wang Xiaoping, Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development Ni Hong, and Director of the National Administration of Disease Control and Prevention Wang Hesheng responded to domestic and foreign questions on education, employment and social security, housing, medical disease control and other related issues. reporters asked questions.

Photo by China News Service reporter He Penglai

　　Employment is the foundation of people's livelihood.

This year’s expected target for new urban employment in China has changed from “around 12 million” last year to “more than 12 million”, setting higher requirements.

　　How do you view the employment situation?

Wang Xiaoping, Minister of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, said frankly that "the overall pressure remains unabated and structural contradictions still need to be resolved," and then spent more time explaining "how to do it."

She specifically mentioned that this year there will be 11.79 million college graduates, and the government will strengthen policies and measures to promote youth employment, expand market-oriented channels, stabilize the scale of public jobs, and optimize full-cycle employment and entrepreneurship guidance services.

　　Currently, China's real estate market is undergoing adjustment and transformation, which has attracted great attention from all walks of life.

"We can't just look at the short term, but also the medium and long term," Ni Hong, Minister of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, reminded. From the perspective of China's urbanization development process and the demand for renewal and renovation of urban housing stock across the country, real estate still has great potential and space.

　　Currently, the difficulty in real estate is funding.

The urban real estate financing coordination mechanism established in China is continuing to be implemented.

Ni Hong revealed that as of the end of February, commercial banks had approved loans of more than 200 billion yuan.

He also "suggested" to those real estate companies that were seriously insolvent and lost their ability to operate, "they must follow the principles of the rule of law and marketization, go bankrupt when they should, and reorganize when they should be reorganized."

　　Educational issues are also a focus of people's livelihood.

When entering the venue, reporters can receive a copy of "20 Questions on Educational Hot Topics", but there are still more questions that need to be answered by Huai Jinpeng, Minister of Education.

Regarding how to meet people's expectations for "a good education", he bluntly said that whether basic education is well done is related to the happiness of hundreds of millions of families. "This is the people's livelihood."

　　In response to this problem, this year’s government work report proposes actions to expand and improve the quality of basic education.

Huai Jinpeng gave his understanding: the overall quality of basic education must be improved, the "cake" of high-quality educational resources should be made bigger, and the overall educational development results and talent training capabilities should be more and more equitable. benefit school-age children and adolescents.

　　At present, the risk of new emerging infectious diseases still exists. How does disease control work protect people's health?

　　"We should respond to the uncertainty of infectious disease pandemics with the certainty of preparedness," Wang Hesheng, director of the National Administration of Disease Control and Prevention, responded by saying that China will establish and improve a legal and regulatory system, a multi-channel monitoring and early warning system, an emergency plan system, and a scientific prevention and control system. control system, group prevention and group control system.

　　Wang Hesheng also said that China has established 20 national acute infectious disease prevention and control teams across the country. No matter where a major public health incident occurs, the national team can be dispatched as soon as possible to provide support.

Five new national teams will be added this year, and grassroots emergency response teams will be established in all cities and counties across the country to further improve the level of infectious disease response capabilities.

　　Faced with concerns and expressed them candidly, in about 1 hour and 40 minutes, 12 hot issues concerning people's livelihood were responded to intensively.

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