Secure the Bottom Line of People's Livelihood and Focus on People's Concerns - Relevant Officials from the Ministry of Civil Affairs on Promoting High Quality Development of Civil Affairs Work

Release time:Apr 16, 2024 21:03 PM

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 12 (Xinhua) - Keeping the Bottom Line of People's Livelihoods Tight and Focusing on People's Concerns - Officials from the Ministry of Civil Affairs Talk about Promoting High Quality Development of Civil Affairs Work

Xinhua News Agency reporter Gao Lei

Civil affairs work is related to people's livelihoods and connects with the hearts of the people. It is a fundamental and fundamental work for social construction. At the "Opening of Authoritative Department Talks" series of themed press conferences held by the State Council Information Office on the 12th, relevant officials from the Ministry of Civil Affairs introduced the situation and answered questions from reporters about promoting high-quality development of civil affairs work.

This year, we will focus on promoting the expansion of subsistence allowance policies and other bottom line measures

Special disadvantaged groups require special attention, care, and concern.

Minister of Civil Affairs Tang Dengjie stated at the press conference that the Ministry of Civil Affairs adheres to the policy of ensuring basic needs, covering the bottom line, rescuing emergencies and difficulties, and ensuring sustainability. It continues to improve the hierarchical and classified social assistance system, with basic living assistance, special social assistance, and emergency social assistance as the main body and social forces participating as supplements, to ensure the basic lives of people in special difficulties.

Liu Xitang, Director of the Social Assistance Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, introduced that China has timely adjusted its assistance and guarantee standards based on the level of economic and social development. By the end of June this year, the minimum living allowance standards for urban and rural areas in China have increased by 4.8% and 8.5% respectively compared to the same period last year. From January to June this year, a total of 126.5 billion yuan was spent on subsistence allowances, special needs, and temporary assistance funds nationwide, which effectively ensured the basic living conditions of disadvantaged groups.

Liu Xitang also stated that the civil affairs department will include subsistence allowance recipients, extremely poor individuals, individuals from families on the edge of subsistence allowance, individuals from families with rigid expenditure difficulties, those who are prone to returning to poverty, and other disadvantaged individuals recognized by the local government in the dynamic monitoring scope. They will establish a sharing mechanism with departments and institutions such as education, medical care, housing construction, rural revitalization, trade unions, and the Disabled Persons' Federation to strengthen monitoring and early warning, and provide support for the construction of a hierarchical and classified social assistance system.

When it comes to this year's key work, Tang Dengjie stated that he will focus on promoting the expansion of the subsistence allowance policy, strengthening assistance to marginalized populations and those in need, promoting temporary assistance from emergency areas, and establishing an effective connection mechanism between government assistance and charitable assistance.

Urge and guide local governments to design basic elderly care service systems at the provincial level

This year, the Party and state institutions have reformed and improved the aging work system, and the responsibilities of organizing, formulating, and coordinating the implementation of policies and measures to address population aging have been transferred to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

Tang Dengjie stated that the Ministry of Civil Affairs will seize the important window and opportunity period of the 14th Five Year Plan, promote the development of elderly care and the elderly care industry, and strive to find a path that is in line with China's reality and has Chinese characteristics to actively respond to population aging.

In May this year, the national basic elderly care service list was publicly released.

Yu Jianliang, Director of the Elderly Care Services Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, stated that in order to promote the realization of basic elderly care services for all elderly people, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, together with the National Development and Reform Commission, will actively respond to the aging population project in 2023 and arrange investment from the central budget to support the construction of elderly care service facilities; In conjunction with the Ministry of Finance, we will implement the 2023 Action Plan to Improve Home and Community Basic Elderly Care Services, and provide home care beds and door-to-door services for elderly people who meet special difficulties and are partially disabled; Together with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development, we will continue to promote the synchronous construction of elderly care service facilities in newly built residential areas, optimize the layout of community elderly care service facilities, and continuously improve the capacity of basic elderly care services.

Since the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has urged and guided various regions to design basic elderly care service systems at the provincial level. At present, most provinces have introduced implementation plans. Yu Jianliang stated that the Ministry of Civil Affairs will urge and guide places that have not yet issued provincial implementation plans to do so as soon as possible before the end of the year.

Standardizing industry associations and chambers of commerce fees has reduced the burden on enterprises by approximately 1.8 billion yuan

The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposes to improve the basic public service system and enhance the level of public services.

Vice Minister of Civil Affairs Zhan Chengfu introduced that in recent years, civil affairs departments at all levels have continuously increased their efforts to facilitate the people, benefit the people, and benefit enterprises. In the field of social assistance, implement "one door acceptance and collaborative processing" of social assistance; In the field of elderly care services, implement aging friendly transformation for families of elderly people with special difficulties; In the field of marriage registration management, the pilot scope of cross provincial marriage registration for mainland residents has been expanded from 7 provinces to 21 provinces, covering 78.5% of the total population in China.

In addition, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has launched a special action by industry associations and chambers of commerce to reduce the burden on enterprises, clean up illegal and irregular fees charged by industry associations and chambers of commerce, comprehensively regulate legal and reasonable fees, and according to preliminary statistics, reduce the burden on enterprises by about 1.8 billion yuan.

Place names are the basic public information of society.

Li Baojun, spokesperson and director of the General Office of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, introduced that after the State Council issued the newly revised "Regulations on the Administration of Geographical Names", the Ministry of Civil Affairs has continued to improve the level of geographical name management services, strictly manage the renaming of geographical names, improve naming rules, standardize work procedures, actively promote the preparation of geographical name plans, implement the filing and announcement system, and establish a unified national filing and announcement work platform. At the same time, we will continue to promote the standardization of place names, standardize non-standard place names, and standardize the spelling and translation of place names.

"Next, we will continue to deeply implement the" Regulations on the Management of Geographical Names ", further improve the level of geographical name management services, deepen the promotion of geographical name cultural protection, assist rural revitalization, serve economic and social development, and better inherit and promote excellent traditional Chinese culture," said Li Baojun.

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