CCTV News: In order to thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on work-for-relief work and implement the decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, the National Development and Reform Commission recently issued a 5 billion yuan investment in the central budget for work-for-relief work-for-relief in 2025, supporting local governments to implement 1,008 work-for-relief projects, and plans to absorb 123,000 rural people who have been lifted out of poverty and other low-income groups to participate in the construction of engineering projects, and distribute labor remuneration of more than 1.71 billion yuan.

This batch of investment plans focuses on key groups in difficult areas and strengthens "timely assistance" and "disaster relief and emergency relief". The funds are mainly invested in underdeveloped areas such as 832 poverty-stricken counties, and are tilted towards national key counties for rural revitalization, old revolutionary areas, areas with heavy follow-up support tasks for relocation and major impacts by natural disasters. We focus on supporting small-scale rural infrastructure construction projects with large labor labor, low technical thresholds and few construction machinery operations. We give priority to absorbing low-income people, especially rural people who have been lifted out of poverty, monitoring targets for preventing poverty, people who need relief due to disasters, and people who have been lifted out of poverty, and those who have been lifted out of poverty due to disasters, and those who have been lifted out of poverty will participate in project construction, and employment will increase income at home. Focus on the "original intention" to help people find employment and increase their income, and highlight "two teachings of fish and fish" and "two support of will and wisdom". It is required that all localities follow the principle of "project construction is the platform carrier and employment and income increase are the fundamental goal", explore the scale of employment-for-relief projects to the greatest extent, absorb local people to participate in construction, and increase the proportion of labor remuneration payments to the greatest extent, carry out training in various ways to improve the skills of the working people, and extend the relief model from the traditional "construction and remuneration" to "improving skills, increasing jobs, and getting dividends". Migrant people will "get both remuneration and gain skills" by participating in labor and skills training. Focus on improving infrastructure conditions and achieve "use more money" and "kill multiple goals in one fell swoop". The work-for-relief project not only fully absorbs and drives the people to work and distributes labor remuneration, but also effectively improves the appearance and living environment of the project site and improves the supporting infrastructure conditions for rural industrial development. This batch of investment will support the construction of 3,550 kilometers of various roads such as village roads, production access roads, industrial roads, etc., carry out 15,000 mu of farmland remediation, excavate or lay 1,320 kilometers of various water supply and drainage pipelines, build 790 small water-filled bridges, culverts, mountain ponds, reservoirs, etc., and build more than 1,600 kilometers of small embankments and main canals.

In October 2024, the National Development and Reform Commission has issued a 5 billion yuan investment in the central budget for work-for-relief in advance, and jointly issued a 4.05 billion yuan task for central government finance to coordinate rural revitalization subsidy funds to promote rural revitalization. In addition, the 5 billion yuan investment in the central budget issued this time has been allocated, and a total of 14.05 billion yuan investment in the central government in 2025 has been allocated. In the next step, the National Development and Reform Commission will conscientiously implement the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference and the Central Rural Work Conference, strive to expand the scale of investment in labor-for-relief, guide local governments to promote the implementation of projects with high standards and high quality, and give full play to the important role of labor-for-relief projects in stabilizing employment, increasing income and promoting consumption.