[our 2021] let the elderly have a happy old age
The general secretary pointed out that we should integrate the positive concept of aging and the concept of healthy aging into the whole process of economic and social development, so that the elderly can share the fruits of reform and development and enjoy a happy old age. This year is the first year of the 14th five year plan. It is also a key year for China to implement the national strategy to actively respond to aging. Governments at all levels strive to solve the “urgent and difficult” problems of the elderly in terms of pension, health and social participation, so as to effectively enhance the elderly’s sense of acquisition, happiness and security.
During the 14th Five Year Plan period, China’s elderly population is expected to reach 300 million, accounting for about 22%, entering a moderately aging society. The Party Central Committee with Xi Jinping comrades as the core attaches great importance to the work of aging and promotes actively coping with the rise of population aging as a national strategy. In August this year, Xi Jinping General Secretary pointed out during his inspection in Chengde, Hebei Province that meeting the various needs of the elderly and enabling the elderly to have a happy old age is an important responsibility of Party committees and governments at all levels. We should combine a sense of security for the elderly with a sense of security for the elderly, study and improve policies and measures, and encourage the elderly to continue to shine and fever.
Effective population aging is related to the overall situation of national development and the well-being of hundreds of millions of people. This year, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued the opinions on strengthening aging work in the new era, comprehensively deployed the tasks of aging work in terms of elderly care service system, health support system and building an age-friendly society, and firmly built the four beams and eight pillars of “providing for the elderly”.
For the elderly to have a happy old age, it is necessary to remove the tangible and intangible obstacles in their life. This year, the construction of an age-friendly society has been promoted in an all-round way. New projects have been started to transform 53400 old urban communities in China, and the elderly friendly facilities and barrier free facilities in urban and rural communities have been transformed.
In order to solve the problem that it is difficult for the elderly to apply intelligent technology, this year, the Ministry of industry and information technology completed the aging transformation of 173 websites and apps; Specially organize the development of SMS verification travel card to solve the problem that some elderly people cannot use smart phones to use communication travel card.
Various forms of “wisdom to help the elderly” have been launched in many places across the country to help the elderly bridge the digital divide. In Shandong, Ji’nan International Airport is sharing information with the health commission and other departments to facilitate the verification of health codes for the elderly.
According to statistics, about 90% of the elderly in China are home-based elderly care. This year, more than 10000 community service institutions and facilities have been added than last year, and more accurate elderly care services have been delivered to the elderly, bedside and at hand. At the same time, the state has issued policies to support the development of special financial loans for the construction of the elderly care service system, and the central government has allocated 1.1 billion yuan to support the development of home and community basic elderly care services.
Healthy aging is the most cost-effective means to deal with population aging. This year, the health support system for the elderly is also constantly improving. Through the promotion of “Ai smart Internet hospital”, 5g + medical and health application pilot is carried out to facilitate the consultation of the elderly, and vigorously build the geriatrics department of rehabilitation hospitals, nursing homes and general hospitals; In Anyuan County, Jiangxi Province, 13 hometown (town) pension institutions cooperate with medical institutions, and the elderly can also see a doctor in the nursing home.
The most beautiful is the red sunset. Promoting the social participation of the elderly is also an important measure to actively respond to population aging. More and more elderly people use their expertise to give full play to their waste heat, participate in universities and communities for the elderly, support western education, publicize the Winter Olympics, and contribute to promoting economic development and social harmony.
Li Keqiang presided over the executive meeting of the State Council
Premier Li Keqiang presided over the executive meeting of the State Council on December 29 to deploy the prevention and control of the epidemic situation during the spring transportation in 2022; Decide to continue to implement some preferential policies for individual income tax; Determine measures to strengthen the construction of rural teachers and ensure that the children of migrant workers go to school.
The meeting pointed out that the current global epidemic situation is severe and complex, and the epidemic outbreaks in some parts of China are point by point. From mid January to late February of next year’s spring transportation, we should strengthen scientific and accurate prevention and control in accordance with the requirements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, improve and pay close attention to the epidemic prevention and control of spring transportation in view of the dense flow of people. First, implement local main responsibilities, guide scientific and orderly travel, and prevent one size fits all. Guide enterprises and colleges to avoid peak shifts, arrange holidays and return to school. Second, strengthen the disinfection of waiting places, strictly implement the requirements of temperature detection and wearing masks, and avoid personnel gathering by increasing security inspection channels. Strengthen the prevention and control of traffic and transportation epidemic in rural areas. Third, strengthen the transportation guarantee of key materials, ensure the supply of materials for people’s livelihood, and improve plans to deal with bad weather. Fourth, ensure the safety of Spring Festival transportation and strictly prevent safety accidents.
In order to reduce the burden of personal income tax and relieve the pressure on low – and middle-income groups, the meeting decided that first, the annual one-time bonus will not be incorporated into the salary income of the current month, and the policy of separate monthly tax will be extended to the end of 2023. Second, the tax exemption policy of annual income not exceeding 120000 yuan and requiring tax supplement or annual final tax supplement not exceeding 400 yuan shall be extended to the end of 2023. Third, the separate tax policy for equity incentive of listed companies will be extended to the end of 2022. The above policies can reduce taxes by 110 billion yuan a year.
To promote social equity, it is very important to ensure educational equity. In order to attract outstanding talents to teach in rural areas and improve the quality of education, the meeting decided that first, strictly implement the provision that the average salary of compulsory education teachers is not lower than that of local civil servants. The performance-based salary is inclined to schools in difficult and remote areas. Second, arrange investment within the central budget to support the improvement of rural teachers’ turnover dormitories in difficult and remote areas. Third, strengthen the training of rural teachers and promote the connection between training and academic education. Every year, 10000 undergraduate normal students are trained for poverty alleviation counties and other counties. Relax the qualification requirements for Professional Title Evaluation of rural teachers. Fourth, guide excellent teachers to flow to rural schools. Create a social atmosphere of respecting teachers and valuing education. Fifth, we will effectively ensure that the children of migrant workers in cities receive compulsory education on an equal basis, and incorporate it into the education development plan and financial guarantee of the inflow areas. It is strictly prohibited to charge borrowing fees and sponsorship fees. Provide more opportunities for the accompanying children to participate in the high school entrance examination in the inflow place. College enrollment will be more inclined to the central and western regions and rural areas.
Other matters were also examined.
white paper on China’s export control
The Information Office of the State Council issued a white paper on China’s export control on the 29th. This is the first white paper on export control issued by China, which aims to comprehensively introduce China’s position, system and practice of improving export control governance, and elaborate China’s propositions and actions to maintain world peace and development, national security and international security.
The white paper points out that today’s world is experiencing major changes that have not been seen in a century, instability and uncertainty have increased significantly, the international security system and order have been impacted, and world peace is facing multiple challenges and threats. Fair, reasonable and non discriminatory export control plays an increasingly prominent role in effectively responding to international and regional security risks and challenges under the new situation and maintaining world peace and development.
The white paper points out that all countries generally attach great importance to and actively promote export control, and strengthen and standardize export control through the establishment and implementation of legal systems. As a permanent member of the UN Security Council and the world’s largest country in goods trade and manufacturing, China has always been improving its export control governance in accordance with the principle of safeguarding national security, world peace and regional security.
The full text of the white paper is more than 9000 words and consists of three parts: preface, body and conclusion. The text includes four parts: China’s basic position on export control, continuously improving the legal system and management system of export control, continuously promoting the modernization of export control system, and actively carrying out international exchange and cooperation on export control.
[keep the word steady and strive for progress while maintaining stability: what to think and do] expand high-level opening-up and promote high-quality development
The central economic work conference proposed to expand high-level opening-up, take multiple measures to stabilize foreign trade, ensure the stability of industrial chain and supply chain, and strengthen the attraction of foreign investment. How to stabilize the basic market of foreign trade? How to promote high-quality development with high-level opening up? Let’s see the reporter’s exclusive interview with Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao.
Wang Wentao said that since the beginning of this year, China’s foreign trade scale and international market share have reached another record high, and its status as a major trading country has been further consolidated. However, next year’s foreign trade development will face more uncertain and unstable factors. In the face of these risks and challenges, new policies and measures to stabilize foreign trade will be issued in the near future.
Wang Wentao said that in the first 11 months, China’s foreign investment exceeded 1 trillion yuan for the first time, which has exceeded the level of last year. In the next step, we will strengthen the absorption of foreign capital, focus on stabilizing the total amount, optimizing the structure and improving the quality.
How to promote institutional opening? Wang Wentao said that this year, China took the lead in ratifying the regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement, which will officially enter into force on January 1 next year. Next, China will accelerate the building of a global network of high-standard free trade zones and take the initiative to connect with high-standard international economic and trade rules.
press conference of the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council: 15 supervision teams went to various places to supervise epidemic prevention and control and ensure people’s health and harmony
The joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council held a press conference today (December 29) to introduce the situation of scientific and accurate epidemic prevention and control during the new year’s day and Spring Festival.
According to the National Health Commission, in the past week, the number of newly confirmed cases of covid-19 pneumonia in the world exceeded 800000 times, approaching the peak since the epidemic. Omicron mutant has become the main epidemic strain in some countries, and the pressure of “external defense input” in China continues to increase. With the arrival of new year’s day and Spring Festival, the flow of personnel increases, and the high incidence of respiratory infectious diseases in winter and spring, the risk of epidemic spread always exists. At present, the national epidemic situation remains relatively stable, showing local high aggregation and multi-point distribution.
The joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council recently sent 15 supervision teams to various places to comprehensively supervise the epidemic prevention and control during the new year’s day and Spring Festival, earnestly implement various measures such as epidemic prevention and control at ports and centralized isolation point management, and urge rectification of problems found.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of culture and tourism, the “circuit breaker” mechanism will continue to be strictly implemented for inter provincial tourism.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of education, colleges and universities reasonably optimize winter vacation arrangements according to “one school, one policy”. For students staying in school, we should strengthen management and service guarantee.
According to the relevant person in charge of the State Administration of market supervision, up to now, 1205 centralized supervision warehouses for imported cold chain food have been established in China to strengthen the closed-loop traceability management of imported cold chain food.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of transport, special classes for Spring Festival transportation will be established with 14 departments and units to take a series of vigorous and temperature measures to ensure efficient and convenient travel of the people.
According to the relevant person in charge of the General Administration of customs, it is necessary to strictly carry out port health quarantine, investigate the epidemic risk of all inbound personnel, and ensure the closed-loop management of the whole chain.
According to the changes of the epidemic situation, the Civil Aviation Administration has revised and issued the eighth edition of the technical guide for epidemic prevention and control, and put forward requirements for the disinfection of aircraft during airlines’ operation in China, such as preventive disinfection at least once a month.
(China Central Television Network)
