Accelerate the high-quality development of social assistance
Party Group of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Communist Party of China
Social assistance is related to the basic life and food and clothing of the people in need. It is a fundamental and basic institutional arrangement to ensure basic people’s livelihood, promote social fairness, and maintain social stability. The superiority of the popular cause. General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to the high-quality development of social assistance. He delivered important speeches on different occasions such as the 28th collective study of the Political Bureau of the 19th CPC Central Committee. ; Social policies should stick to the bottom line of people’s livelihood; integrate rural social assistance into the overall planning of the rural revitalization strategy; deepen the reform of the social assistance system to form a comprehensive, hierarchical, and efficient social assistance pattern. We must conscientiously unify our thoughts and actions into the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech and the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, and actively promote the high-quality development of social assistance.
1. Resolutely shoulder the political responsibility of guaranteeing the bottom line
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has made a series of important expositions on social assistance, put forward a series of new ideas, new judgments, and new requirements, and systematically answered major theoretical and practical problems in the development of social assistance in our country, so as to do a good job for us. The social assistance work in the new era has injected strong impetus, pointed out the way forward, and provided fundamental compliance.
endowed with a new historical mission.General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that people’s livelihood is the biggest politics. We must vigorously do a good job in ensuring and improving people’s livelihood, pay attention to the people in need of life, and let the people get tangible and tangible benefits. He emphasized that people’s livelihood is no small matter, and the branches and leaves are always related to each other; for the people in need, we must pay special attention, love, and concern, always keep their safety in mind, care about their suffering, and do everything possible to help them solve their problems; If the basic life problems are not solved by one family or even one person, we cannot be at peace. This requires us to fully understand the importance of doing a good job in social assistance work in the new era, adhere to the people-centered development philosophy, take the basic life of the people in difficulty as a major event in our hearts and on our shoulders, and think about what the masses want and be anxious about. To address the urgent needs of the masses and solve the difficulties of the masses, continuously enhance ideological, political and action consciousness, and earnestly fulfill the duty and mission of guaranteeing people’s livelihood.
New development goals were identified.General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to deepen the reform of the social assistance system, and form a social assistance pattern with basic living assistance, special social assistance, and emergency social assistance as the main body, supplemented by the participation of social forces, covering a comprehensive, hierarchical, comprehensive and efficient social assistance pattern; The urban and rural social assistance system has been established, so that people in need have access to help and receive assistance in a timely manner. This requires us to closely focus on the goal of improving the social assistance system with Chinese characteristics, firmly grasp the main line of high-quality development, and earnestly plan, research, and promote social assistance in accordance with the general idea of maintaining the basics, protecting the bottom line, helping emergencies, and being sustainable. System reform, accelerate the construction of information aggregation, resource planning, efficient and convenient system and mechanism, and continuously promote the construction of social assistance system to achieve new results.
It is an important task of social assistance to strengthen the care for special and difficult groups such as the “three left-behind” people in rural areas. During the winter vacation, Yaogou Township, Sihong County, Suqian City, Jiangsu Province recruited volunteers to set up a loving care class for left-behind children, providing children with a free environment for reading, learning, and painting and calligraphy creation. On January 22, 2022, at the New Era Civilization Practice Station in Guantang Community, Yaogou Township, Sihong County, children participating in the loving care class exchanged and drew New Year pictures.Xinhua News Agency issued Xu Changliang / photo
A new general idea is clarified.General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that in accordance with the requirements of everyone’s participation, everyone’s efforts, and everyone’s enjoyment, we must stick to the bottom line, highlight key points, improve the system, guide expectations, pay attention to the fairness of opportunities, and strive to protect the basic livelihood of the people. He emphasized that it is necessary to take precise measures according to the characteristics and needs of the destitute people, pay all kinds of relief funds on time and in full, strengthen temporary relief, and ensure that the bottom line is covered, the bottom line is accurate, and the bottom line is good; it is necessary to realize a virtuous circle of economic development and improvement of people’s livelihood. This requires us to strengthen the awareness of the bottom line, stick to the bottom line of people’s livelihood, and resolutely prevent the occurrence of incidents that impact the bottom line of social morality; grasp the key points of work, actively promote the overall planning of social assistance in urban and rural areas, regional planning, and resource planning, and increase assistance to key groups. Give preferential support to key areas to effectively solve the problem of unbalanced and insufficient development of social assistance; focus on system construction, continuously achieve new results in more mature and stereotyped systems, and accelerate the formation of a systematic and comprehensive social assistance system; insist on doing our best and doing what we can , in line with the level of economic development, neither lowering the standard nor raising appetite, so as to achieve an effective connection and complementarity between the improvement of people’s livelihood and economic development.
Deployed new mission requirements.General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to coordinate the urban and rural social assistance system and improve the minimum living security system; integrate rural social assistance into the overall planning of rural revitalization strategies, improve the rural social assistance system, and improve daily assistance measures; strengthen rural elderly, children, and rural residents. Caring and caring for special and difficult groups such as “three left-behind” people; increase temporary assistance to people who are trapped in disasters due to the epidemic; improve the precise identification mechanism for social assistance and social welfare objects, so as to achieve all the guarantees and help. , to enjoy. This requires us to accurately grasp the development law of social assistance, fully grasp the inherent requirements of high-quality development of social assistance, highlight key objects and key tasks, seize weaknesses and key links, and do a solid job of ensuring social assistance.
2. my country’s social assistance cause has made historic achievements
Our party has always attached great importance to basic livelihood security and social assistance. In the course of its century of struggle, it has always adhered to the supremacy of the people and promoted the continuous development and progress of social assistance with heart and emotion. Especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has placed the construction of the social assistance system in a more prominent position, and made a series of major decisions and arrangements to promote the rapid development of my country’s social assistance work. The social assistance system with Chinese characteristics has been basically completed, and social assistance has made historic achievements.
A breakthrough was made in institutional reform.In 2014, the State Council promulgated the “Interim Measures for Social Assistance”, which for the first time stipulated in the form of administrative regulations the minimum living allowances, support for the extremely poor, assistance for disaster victims, medical assistance, education assistance, housing assistance, employment assistance, temporary assistance, etc. 8 social assistance systems as the main body and social forces as the supplementary social assistance system. In 2020, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued the “Opinions on Reforming and Improving the Social Assistance System”, making an overall design and systematic plan for promoting the reform and innovation of the social assistance system at present and in the future. The social assistance system has been transformed from a decentralized individual assistance system to a comprehensive assistance system. Various social assistance systems such as basic living assistance, special assistance and temporary assistance have been continuously improved, and the safety net for people’s livelihood has become more compact and reliable. The minimum living security system includes the seriously ill and severely disabled persons in the marginal households of the minimum living allowance into the minimum living allowance with reference to the “single-person household”, and increases the deduction of employment costs and the gradual retirement of the minimum living allowance, so as to achieve “everything that should be guaranteed”; assistance for the extremely poor The support system integrates the rescue of urban “three noes” and the five guarantees in rural areas, standardizes the identification of extremely poor people, and achieves “all the support that should be provided”; the temporary assistance system highlights the function of “underlying guarantee”, and establishes temporary assistance funds for townships (streets) system, implement small-amount first aid, and promptly resolve the sudden and urgent life difficulties of the masses, so as to achieve “rescue as much as possible”. In 2021, more than 46.8 million people in need across the country will be included in the minimum living allowances or special hardships, and 10.89 million people will be temporarily rescued throughout the year.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, civil affairs departments at all levels have continued to improve the social assistance system, and accelerated the construction of a social assistance system with Chinese characteristics that is tiered and classified and coordinated between urban and rural areas, so that people in need can truly feel that the party’s policies are good and their lives are promising. The picture shows that on January 25, 2022, the poor people in Dongyida Village, Qianjin Town, Nanxun District, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province showed a happy smile when they received the Spring Festival condolences.Photo courtesy of Rong Media Center, Nanxun District, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province Lu Zhipeng / Photo
Poverty alleviation has been successfully completed.The bottom line of social assistance is an important part of the “five batches” of poverty alleviation. Implement the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee to win the battle against poverty, actively promote the effective connection between the rural subsistence allowance system and poverty alleviation and development policies, give full play to the bottom-line support role of temporary assistance to solve the problem of “two worries and three guarantees”, and realize all counties (cities, districts) in the country. All rural minimum living standards have dynamically reached or exceeded the national poverty alleviation standards, and 19.36 million registered poor people have been included in the scope of minimum living security or special poverty support, accounting for 19.6% of all the people who have been lifted out of poverty. , make an important contribution to building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way. Consolidate and expand the results of poverty alleviation, and include 2.4 million eligible people among the unstable poverty-stricken people, marginalized people who are prone to poverty, and households with sudden and severe difficulties into the minimum living allowance or special poverty support.
The level of assistance has steadily increased.In recent years, the party and the government have continuously increased the efforts to ensure people’s livelihood, continued to increase the investment of social assistance funds, established and improved a dynamic adjustment mechanism for social assistance standards that is compatible with social and economic development and people’s living standards, and linked social assistance and security standards with rising prices. mechanism to gradually improve the basic living security level of the people in need. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, governments at all levels have spent more than 2 trillion yuan in basic living assistance funds, and the guarantee standards have been raised year by year. Meet or exceed 1.3 times the local minimum living standard.
Governance capacity has been comprehensively enhanced.Improve the working mechanism of party committee leadership, government responsibility, civil affairs leadership, departmental coordination, and social participation, establish a national social assistance inter-ministerial joint meeting system, and comprehensively establish a county-level coordination mechanism for basic living security for people in need, strengthen resource planning and departmental coordination, and form Help together. We will improve the mechanism for verifying the economic status of social assistance families, promote the nationwide networking of the verification information platform, and improve the accuracy of assistance. In 2021, verification agencies at all levels will carry out entrusted verification services for a total of 189 million person-times. Innovate the mechanism for social forces to participate in social assistance work, and promote the efficient linkage between government assistance and charitable assistance. Continue to carry out social assistance performance evaluation, implement special governance and consolidation and improvement actions for rural subsistence allowances, and effectively correct corruption and work style problems around the masses in the field of social assistance.
Service efficiency has been significantly improved.Establish a national low-income population dynamic monitoring information platform, and collect information on more than 60 million low-income populations, including subsistence allowances, people living in extreme poverty, marginal populations with subsistence allowances, and families in financial difficulties. Targeted assistance. Promote the “one-door acceptance and coordinated handling” of social assistance, strengthen active discovery, and open more than 3,700 social assistance service hotlines at the four levels of ministries, provinces, cities and counties to ensure that people in need have access to help and receive assistance in a timely manner. In response to the adverse effects of the sudden outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic and frequent disasters in recent years, social assistance policies and measures have been adjusted and intensively introduced in a timely manner, the scope of minimum living guarantee and temporary assistance has been appropriately expanded, and assistance has been provided to people in distress due to the epidemic and disasters. , the disabled, children and other special groups to provide timely care services, effectively guarantee the basic life of the people in need, and fully demonstrate the coping ability and vigorous vitality of my country’s social assistance system.
The historic achievements of China’s social assistance work since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of my country have enlightened us that to promote the high-quality development of social assistance, we must always adhere to the centralized and unified leadership of the party, give full play to the role of party organizations at all levels, and promote the integrated development of party building and social assistance work. ; Always adhere to the people-centered development idea, and take the protection of the basic rights and interests of the poor as the fundamental starting point and end point of social assistance; always adhere to reform and innovation, and use reform methods and innovative thinking to solve problems in development; Always adhere to weaving secrets Build a safety net for people’s livelihood, and resolutely defend the last line of defense for people’s livelihood.
3. Start a new journey of high-quality development of social assistance undertakings
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that there is no end to guaranteeing and improving people’s livelihood, but a continuous new starting point. Measures that are more targeted, larger in coverage, more direct and more effective must be taken to help the masses solve problems and serve the masses. Increase well-being and allow the masses to enjoy fairness. We must continue to promote the reform of the social assistance system with a higher position, greater strength and more practical measures, accelerate the high-quality development of social assistance, effectively ensure the basic life of the people in need, and continuously enhance the people’s sense of gain and happiness sense of security.
Continue to improve and perfect the social assistance system.Thoroughly implement the “Opinions on Reforming and Improving the Social Assistance System”, and continue to deepen the reform of the social assistance system in accordance with the requirements of system integration, coordination and efficiency. Strengthen coordination and cooperation, implement departmental responsibilities, strengthen the connection between various social assistance systems, and between social assistance and social insurance and social welfare systems to ensure that the reform forms an overall synergy. Actively guide the participation of social forces, establish and improve the linking mechanism between government assistance and charitable assistance, and promote the government’s purchase of social assistance services. We will further promote the reform and innovation pilot of social assistance, solve deep-seated contradictions and problems through reform, and enhance the driving force and vitality of the innovation and development of social assistance. Explore and improve the policies and measures to ensure the livelihood of the people in need under the goal of common prosperity, better play the role of social assistance in promoting common prosperity, and let the people in need share the fruits of reform and development and live a happier and healthier life.
Weaving secret pockets to secure the basic people’s livelihood security safety net.Speed up the national low-income population dynamic monitoring and the establishment of a normalized assistance and assistance mechanism, improve the national low-income population dynamic monitoring information platform, expand inter-departmental information sharing and data comparison, and realize normal monitoring, rapid early warning, assistance and assistance for low-income population. help. We will further improve the basic living assistance systems such as minimum living allowances and support for the extremely poor, strengthen the uniformity and standardization of the systems, improve the accessibility and coverage of the systems, scientifically and rationally formulate and adjust assistance standards, and effectively meet the basic living needs of the people in need. Efficiently implement the temporary rescue system, strengthen the emergency rescue function, continuously improve the timeliness and effectiveness of rescue, eliminate the “blind spot” of rescue, and ensure that the safety net for people’s livelihood is more reliable. Continue to consolidate and expand the basic guarantee results of poverty alleviation, maintain the overall stability of the basic social assistance policy during the transition period, establish a long-term information sharing mechanism with the rural revitalization department, and resolutely maintain the bottom line of not returning to poverty on a large scale.
Accurately implement various relief policies.“Precision” is the proper meaning of the fair and just operation of the social assistance system, and it is also an inevitable requirement for high-quality development. Further improve the identification methods for social assistance objects, improve the precise identification mechanism for assistance objects, strengthen the construction of the verification mechanism for the economic status of social assistance families, and consolidate the basis for precise assistance. Timely and accurately understand the worries, thoughts and expectations of the people in need, promote a comprehensive assessment of the needs of families in need, provide basic living assistance, special assistance or emergency social assistance according to their specific types, degrees and characteristics of difficulties, and implement various assistance policies and measures. In place, to achieve accurate rescue objects, accurate measures, and accurate results, so that the weak can be helped, the poor can be helped, and the difficult can be helped.
Innovate and optimize diversified rescue services.Deepen the reform of “delegating power, delegating power and improving services” in the field of social assistance, improving the active discovery mechanism, simplifying and optimizing assistance procedures, and improving assistance efficiency. To innovate the way of assistance, in response to the increasingly diverse assistance needs, actively develop service-type social assistance, and accelerate the formation of a “material + service” assistance method. Strengthen the construction of social assistance informatization, promote the application of modern information technologies such as the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and 5G in the field of social assistance, promote the extension of social assistance services to the mobile terminal, and realize the “hand-held” and “point-to-point” assistance for assistance matters. Top Office” to provide more convenient and efficient assistance services for the needy. Actively cultivate social work service institutions and professional social work talents in the field of social assistance, and accelerate the formation of a diversified supply pattern of social assistance services. Implement grassroots social assistance capacity improvement projects, enrich grassroots work forces, strengthen township (street) social assistance responsibilities and security conditions, improve grassroots social assistance handling and service capabilities, and open up the “last mile” for social assistance to serve the masses.
Strengthen and standardize the work guarantee of healthy development.Accelerate the legislative work on social assistance, and continuously improve the legal system for social assistance. Increase the support of social assistance funds, strengthen the supervision of funds, standardize the distribution procedures and time limits, and ensure that all kinds of assistance funds are distributed in full and in time. Continue to carry out comprehensive management of social assistance, in-depth rectification of corruption and work style problems in the field of social assistance, severely crack down on fraudulent insurance fraud, embezzlement of assistance funds, “favorable relatives and friends” and other violations of laws and disciplines, and make good use of every investment of the needy people. Relief money. Strengthen social assistance policy publicity and theoretical research, commend advanced units and individuals with outstanding performance, and create a good atmosphere for the whole society to pay attention, support, and participate in social assistance.