China Net Finance, March 5th **The Information Office held a briefing on the 5th, and Huang Shouhong, head of the drafting team of the "Work Report" and director of the Research Office, interpreted the "Work Report" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report") and answered questions from reporters.
The following is the transcript:
Reporter: We have noticed that this year's "Work Report" has put forward many new policy measures to protect and improve people's livelihood, and everyone is looking forward to it. What livelihood gift packages can people receive this year? Can you talk about it comprehensively? In addition, some local grassroots finances are relatively tight, can these livelihood commitments be fulfilled in the end? Thank you.
Huang Shouhong: Thank you for your question. Improving people's livelihood and well-being is the fundamental purpose of development. This year's report focuses on issues of concern to the masses and puts forward a number of policy measures in terms of people's livelihood. Protecting and improving people's livelihood is reflected and required in many aspects of the report.
For example, the overall requirements put forward requirements for improving people's livelihood and well-being, and the relevant content is covered in other parts. For example, in the area of education, the report proposes to improve the conditions of rural boarding schools. There are more than 30 million boarding students in the compulsory education stage in the country, many of whom are left-behind children. Although the conditions of rural boarding schools have improved greatly in recent years, there are still many weak links. In order to let these children read good books and go to good school, this year, the "Report" put forward requirements for this weak link.
Another example is in terms of medical and health care, the "report" proposes to continue to increase the basic medical financial subsidy this year, and the financial subsidy standard for urban and rural residents' medical insurance will be increased by 30 yuan to 670 yuan per person per year. The report also emphasized the implementation and improvement of the settlement of medical treatment in different places, emphasized the patient-centered improvement of medical services, and promoted the mutual recognition of examination and test results.
Another example is in terms of social security, the "report" proposes to continue to increase the basic pension of retirees this year, and increase the minimum monthly standard of basic pension for urban and rural residents by 20 yuan. I'll briefly introduce this matter, and now there are 1 in the country700 million elderly people receive pension insurance benefits for urban and rural residents, and the minimum standard will be raised by 20 yuan this year, an increase of 194%, which is a large increase in recent years.
There are many similar contents on people's livelihood security, and I will not see it here for a limited time.
I just talked about the financial constraints in some places, and the measures proposed in the "Work Report", including those proposed in the budget report and the plan report, are there any financial support for the measures to improve people's livelihood that are arranged and deployed? Can it be cashed out? In response to this problem, special emphasis was placed in the "** Work Report" and arrangements were made. In the proactive fiscal policy, the report emphasizes the need to vigorously optimize the expenditure structure and strengthen the country's major strategic tasks and basic people's livelihood and financial guarantees. This year, the local transfer payment should maintain the necessary strength, and the budget has arranged a little more than 10 trillion yuan, and at the same time, it is necessary to promote the sinking of financial resources at the provincial level to ensure that there are no problems with the "three guarantees" at the grassroots level. Specific livelihood expenditures have also been arranged in the budget report, and you can look at them in parallel.
As for the arrangements for improving people's livelihood this year, I believe that through the joint efforts of all levels, they will be put in place. In the "** Work Report", a very important point was also put forward, which is to look at the problem of making up for the shortcomings of people's livelihood with development thinking. Improving people's livelihood is also the driving force for economic development, and solving people's livelihood problems such as employment, pension and medical care can not only improve people's livelihood and well-being, but also stimulate the huge potential of domestic demand. Therefore, if we want to solve the problems of people's livelihood, including "one old and one young", and facilitate the admission of children to kindergartens, we need to increase investment, which can drive other aspects of expenditure. The reason why these people's livelihood protection and improvement measures can be realized is that their feasibility has been fully taken into account when formulating measures and putting forward goals and tasks, and some supporting methods and measures have also been studied and formulated. A basic principle in protecting and improving people's livelihood is to do our best and do what we can, mainly to fulfill the responsibility of ensuring the basic and bottom line, and on this basis, we will do our best to improve the level of security. Thank you.