Social Security: Bottom Line to Support People’s Livelihood and Improve People’s Well-being
Social security is the livelihood of the people. Its development and changes not only reflect the continuous improvement of our people’s livelihood and welfare, but also reflect the tremendous progress of our country’s economy and society.
At the beginning of the founding of New China, the country was poor and white. At that time, the social security system not only had a small coverage, but also had a weak protection function. The pension and relief standard also needed to be improved.
“For the happiness of the Chinese people, and for the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.” The Chinese Communist Party has united and led the Chinese people to always commit themselves to safeguarding and improving people’s livelihood and pushing the construction of my country’s social security system into the fast lane. Through unremitting efforts, my country’s social security system has changed from “from nothing to something” to “from something to good”, and successfully built a social security system with distinctive Chinese characteristics. At the end of 2016, the Chinese government was awarded the “Outstanding Achievement Award in Social Security” by the International Social Security Association.
The people are the foundation of the state, and the solid state is the foundation of the nation. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has made social security coverage of all people as the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way, and has made a series of major decisions and deployments. my country’s social security system has been fully developed, and the coverage has continued to expand. The level has continued to improve, and a social security safety net covering the largest number of people in the world has been established, which steadily guards hundreds of millions of people.
Lay a solid foundation for creating a better life
Nowadays, residents in Chengdu and Chongqing can enjoy the services of Chongqing Library, Sichuan Provincial Library and Chengdu Library without any barriers with their social security cards (electronic social security cards). According to the relevant person in charge of the Chongqing Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security, in the next three years, Chongqing will gradually realize the “full coverage” of the Chengdu-Chongqing reading card service in 43 public libraries in the city. Before the end of this year, the social security card will also realize the application functions of public transportation and rail transportation in the main urban area.
Since the first generation of the “Social Security Card of the People’s Republic of China” was first issued in Shanghai in 1999, the social security card has developed to the third generation, from an ordinary card to a service card, bank card, and smart card in a livelihood service. card. Nowadays, the social security card carries more than 100 services, covering all aspects of people’s livelihood, and steadily moving towards the “all-in-one card” for residents’ services: not only can the social security card be used for unemployment registration and employment services, but also social security cards can be used to receive pensions, Unemployment benefits, disability benefits and employment subsidies…
As of the end of 2020, the number of social security card holders across the country has reached 1.335 billion, and 95.4% of the people in the country have a social security card. In addition, the social security card also has an electronic form. You can use the electronic social security card to directly handle social security inquiries and unemployment benefits on your mobile phone. Forty national “one-network-one” services. More than 300 million people have received the electronic social security card.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has made a series of major decisions and deployments. my country has focused on enhancing fairness, adapting to mobility, and ensuring sustainability, and coordinated and promoted the construction of a social security system covering the entire population and reforms. The system, integrity, and synergy of the company have been significantly enhanced, the guarantee system has become more complete, the guarantee projects have become increasingly complete, and the system has been operated in a safe and orderly manner. This has laid a solid foundation for the people to create a better life and provided favorable conditions for building a well-off society in an all-round way as scheduled.
In order to ensure the basic livelihood of the poverty-stricken people who meet the conditions for assistance, and to lay a solid foundation for the basic livelihood of the people in need, since the end of 2017, the rural subsistence allowance standards of all counties (cities, districts) across the country have continued to meet or exceed the national poverty alleviation standards; As of the end of 2020, a total of 19.36 million registered poverty-stricken people nationwide have been included in the scope of subsistence allowances or special hardship assistance; in the first quarter of 2021, a total of 2.802 million temporary assistance has been implemented nationwide, and 19,000 non-local household registration recipients have been assisted.
Focusing on the goal of universal coverage and social security for everyone, implement a universal participation plan, accurately promote the participation of key groups, and establish the world‘s largest social security system. Since 2012, the number of people participating in basic pension insurance in my country has increased from 788 million to 1.012 million, the number of people participating in unemployment insurance has increased from 152 million to 220 million, and the number of people participating in work injury insurance has increased from 190 million to 272 million. . The 60.98 million registered poor people have participated in the basic endowment insurance, and the participation rate has stabilized at over 99.99%, basically realizing the insurance coverage.
“Let the common people live a good life is the starting point and end point of all our work.” The party and the government use a policy measure to send care and warmth to the masses, and weave a better guarantee for the basic lives of the people. Confidentially, weave tighter.
Meet the multi-level and diversified needs of different groups of people
“It’s no longer difficult to see a doctor, and you can afford to be ill!” “It is really unexpected that we farmers can also receive pensions!” Behind the sound of admiration, it is the period for the majority of farmers to be able to heal the sick and take care of the elderly. Hope is the continuous effort of the party and the government to continuously improve the social security system for farmers.
As early as 2012, the new rural social endowment insurance system (new rural insurance) and the urban residents’ social endowment insurance system (urban housing insurance) achieved full coverage across the country; two years later, the new rural insurance and urban housing insurance systems sounded Merger horn; by the end of 2015, all county-level administrative regions across the country have basically completed the integration of the two systems, realizing the “four unifications” of system names, policy standards, management services, and information systems-new agricultural insurance and urban housing insurance have become historical terms , The unified basic old-age insurance system for urban and rural residents canceled the identification of urban and rural residents. From Tiannan to Haibei, from cities to rural areas, to integrate one billion people with huge differences between urban and rural areas and regions into a social insurance network is not comparable in difficulty and contribution to any country in the world.
Data from the seventh national census showed that my country’s aging degree has further deepened, with a population of 264.02 million people aged 60 and over, accounting for 18.7% (Among them, 190.64 million people aged 65 and over, accounting for 13.5%). Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has attached great importance to the issue of pensions, made a series of important arrangements, and put forward a series of clear requirements. The “National Plan for Actively Responding to Population Aging in the Medium and Long Term” clearly states that by 2035, the development goal of achieving a mature and finalized elderly care service system with Chinese characteristics and that all elderly people enjoy basic elderly care services. For the first time, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China will actively respond to the rise of population aging as a national strategy and make important arrangements for elderly care services.
Not long ago, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the National Development and Reform Commission issued the “Fourteenth Five-Year Plan for Civil Affairs Development”, which clearly stated that it is necessary to adapt to the social needs of an aging population and continue to improve the elderly care service system that coordinated home community institutions and combined medical care and health care. The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Civil Affairs stated that during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, the civil affairs department will increase the development of family pension beds, introduce relevant standards and norms, consolidate the basic status of family pensions, and let more elderly people have more sense of gain and satisfaction. Happiness.
On the one hand, take the happiness of the elderly at heart; on the other hand, create a good environment for the healthy growth of left-behind children. Since 2016, the national level has successively formulated a series of policies and measures to provide institutional guarantees for the care and service of left-behind children and children in difficulties in rural areas.
In order to widely mobilize social forces to participate, in 2019, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the United Nations Assets Supervision Commission and others issued the “Guiding Opinions on Further Strengthening the Care and Services for Left-behind and Distressed Children in Rural Areas for Labor-intensive Enterprises”, actively exploring how companies can help rural left-behind and distressed children in care service. Since 2018, it has guided China State Construction Corporation to organize and carry out the “100 preaching into the construction site” activity of caring and protecting left-behind children in rural areas for 4 consecutive years, providing policy preaching and guardianship guidance for parents of migrant workers and their families. Actively mobilize social forces to participate through government purchases of services. In 2020, the central government will purchase social organizations to participate in social service projects, and a total of more than 42 million yuan will be invested in child care services.
Deepen reform and continuously improve the level of guarantee
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, my country’s social security reforms have focused on the improvement of a multi-level social security system that covers all people, coordinates urban and rural areas, and is fair, unified, and sustainable. The enterprising spirit of the company bravely ventured into the “deep water area” to ensure that the population continued to increase, and the level of protection increased year by year.
All localities have steadily increased various social security benefits, effectively improving the lives of low-income groups. Establish and improve mechanisms for determining pension benefits and reasonable adjustments, and steadily increase the basic pension standards for basic pension insurance for urban and rural residents. From 2012 to 2020, the monthly per capita pension for urban and rural residents will double; continue to adjust the basic pension for retirees from enterprises and institutions .
It is not just pensions, but the steadily increasing numbers have become a vivid footnote of “reliable social insurance”.
As of the end of April 2021, the national average urban subsistence allowance standard is 684 yuan/person·month, and the average monthly subsidy is 483 yuan, and the average rural subsistence allowance standard is 6045 yuan/person·year (calculated as 504 yuan per month), and the monthly per capita subsidy 301 yuan; unemployment and work-related injury insurance benefits have steadily increased. The average monthly unemployment insurance benefit level has increased from 707 yuan in 2012 to 1506 yuan in 2020, and the monthly disability allowance per capita has increased from 1864 yuan to 3449 yuan in 2020.
Medical insurance reform has also made great strides forward. In 2016, the state initiated the reform to establish a unified basic medical insurance system for urban and rural residents. By the end of 2019, the two systems of basic medical insurance for urban residents and the new rural cooperative medical system will be fully integrated. Urban and rural residents will participate in insurance payment and enjoy benefits in accordance with a unified policy. The resident medical insurance financial subsidy standard has also increased from 40 yuan per capita in 2007 to 550 yuan in 2020. After the reform, insured persons, especially rural residents, were reimbursed more when seeking medical advice, less self-paid, and higher ceilings, and the burden of seeing a doctor was significantly reduced. my country’s basic, full coverage, bottom-line, and multi-level medical security system has taken shape.
The continuous expansion of the social security fund has laid a solid foundation for the sustainable development of the social security system. The three social insurance funds of basic pension, unemployment, and work-related injury accumulated a total balance of 6.4 trillion yuan, and the operation of the fund was generally stable.
In 2020, the number of designated medical institutions for direct settlement of hospitalization expenses across provinces and other places will be 44,413; the number of valid records on the national platform is 7.71 million. In the whole year, 5.85 million hospitalizations were hospitalized across provinces and other places for medical treatment, of which 3.0023 million were directly settled across provinces, and medical expenses were settled directly across provinces to 74.28 billion yuan, and funds paid 43.873 billion yuan. Starting in 2018, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, and five provinces in southwestern China have successively launched pilot projects for direct settlement of outpatient expenses across provinces. By the end of 2020, the 12 pilot provinces had accumulatively settled 3.02 million person-times, and the total medical expenses were 746 million yuan. The medical insurance fund paid 429 million yuan. Starting from January 2021, 15 provinces and regions including Shanxi will be added as pilot provinces for direct settlement of ordinary outpatient expenses across provinces on the basis of fully connecting the three areas. The scope of direct settlement services for insured persons for medical treatment in different places has been further expanded. Through the cross-province and remote medical settlement system, medical insurance participants only need to pay the expenses that should be borne by the individual when they are hospitalized or out-patient, and other expenses are settled by the medical insurance department and the designated hospital.
We firmly believe that under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, my country will establish a high-quality social security system with Chinese characteristics in an all-round way to better enhance the well-being of all people.
(Our reporter Ren Huan Qiu Yue)
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