CCTV News: The Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress held a press conference on people's livelihood theme on March 9. Relevant leaders from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and the National Health Commission answered questions from Chinese and foreign reporters respectively.

Five tasks promote stable and improving employment situation

Employment is the top priority for people's livelihood. When talking about the employment situation this year, Wang Xiaoping, Minister of Human Resources and Social Security, summarized it in two sentences: First, the task of stabilizing and expanding employment is heavy and under pressure; second, the employment situation this year is generally stable and positive.

Wang Xiaoping, Minister of Human Resources and Social Security, introduced that this year there are 12.22 million fresh graduates and college graduates, and the scale of working for the people who have been lifted out of poverty needs to be maintained at more than 30 million, and a large number of rural migrant labor force need to achieve stable employment. Focus on doing a good job in five aspects: First, promote the construction of an employment-friendly development model; second, organize and implement employment support plans; third, effectively improve the efficiency of matching people and jobs, solve the problem of having no work, and solve the problem of having no work; fourth, focus on promoting entrepreneurship to drive employment; fifth, ensure stable employment among key groups, and introduce a new round of support policies for college graduates and other young people.

Continue to promote urban renewal and transformation in three aspects

This year's government work report proposes to continue to promote urban renewal. Regarding this issue, Ni Hong, Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, shared a set of data: Since 2019, the country has started to renovate nearly 280,000 old urban communities, benefiting 120 million residents; nearly 80,000 elderly care and childcare facilities have been added; and more than 40,000 "pocket parks" have been created. This year, we will work hard to implement a number of update projects that benefit people's livelihood, promote development and prevent risks. Among them, three things need to be focused on for people's livelihood projects.

Minister of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development Ni Hong said that, first, all old urban communities built before 2000 should be included in the scope of urban renewal and renovation, and local governments should also be encouraged to explore residents' independent renewal and renovation of old houses; second, urban village renovation; third, vigorously promote the construction of a complete community, focusing on "one elderly and one young", improving barrier-free and elderly-friendly supporting facilities, government childcare service facilities, and children's activity venues.

The high standard for residential floors not less than three meters will be adjusted

At present, the supply and demand relationship in the real estate market has undergone major changes, and the people's housing demand has shifted from "whether there is" to "whether it is good or not". Ni Hong said that it is necessary to improve standards and specifications and promote the construction of a safe, comfortable, green and smart "good house". The height standard of residential floors will be adjusted to not less than 3 meters.

The third-level service network forms a one-quarter-hour elderly care service circle

In terms of deepening the reform and development of elderly care services, Minister of Civil Affairs Lu Zhiyuan said that the improvement of the urban and rural three-level elderly care service network system will be accelerated and improved to form a "one-quarter-hour elderly care service circle". Lu Zhiyuan introduced that the Ministry of Civil Affairs will promote the improvement of comprehensive elderly care services at the county and district level based on the existing elderly care service facilities, improve regional elderly care service centers at the township and street level, and establish and improve elderly care services sites in villages and communities. Build a three-level elderly care service network at counties, townships and villages to form a "four-hour elderly care service circle" to provide convenient elderly care services for the elderly. In addition, Lu Zhiyuan introduced that this year, the civil affairs and people's livelihood security will be promoted in an orderly manner from bottom-line and basic to universal, and the protection targets will be transformed from specific groups to more groups in need.

Increased 0.4 years. Last year, the average life expectancy of residents reached 79 years. Lei Haichao, director of the National Health Commission, introduced that according to the latest statistics, in 2024, the average life expectancy of Chinese residents has reached 79 years, an increase of 0.4 years from 2023, and the established direction of efforts was achieved ahead of schedule.

Lei Haichao, director of the National Health Commission, said that among the 53 middle- and high-income countries, China ranks fourth. If we look at it in the G20 countries, the average life expectancy of 79 years is 10th in the G20 countries. Moreover, even compared with high-income countries, our country has exceeded the life expectancy of 21 high-income countries, which shows that the implementation of this traditional excellent culture, good lifestyle of the Chinese, and a series of strategies for health-first development is direct in improving health.

More than 90% of village clinics have been included in the designated medical insurance scope

In addition, Lei Haichao said that according to statistics, there are more than 600,000 medical and health institutions in towns, communities and villages in my country, and more than 5 million medical staff are working at the grassroots level, and the capacity and level of grassroots medical and health services have been significantly improved. More than 90% of village clinics have been included in the designated medical insurance scope, which greatly facilitates the public's medical treatment, medical treatment and payment of expenses. The goal this year is to further promote the close-range medical alliances and medical communities to cover 90% of counties and districts, and achieve basic full coverage of close-range medical communities by 2027.