Reasons for protecting and improving people’s livelihood

Promote the development of education. The central government spent 107.635 billion yuan on education, an increase of 76%. Comprehensively implement the reform of the funding guarantee mechanism for rural compulsory education. All students in rural compulsory education across the country will be exempted from tuition and miscellaneous fees, and all textbooks will be provided free of charge. Living subsidies will be provided to boarding students from financially disadvantaged families. Subsidy standards for public funds and school building maintenance funds for primary and secondary schools will be raised. The central government will The expenditure was 36.48 billion yuan, and local finance also spent a corresponding 32.3 billion yuan, benefiting 150 million students and 7.8 million boarding students from families with financial difficulties. Support the implementation of free education pilot projects for normal students in normal universities directly under the Ministry of Education. Implement a new financial aid policy system for students from families with financial difficulties, expand the proportion of aid, improve the level of aid, and provide financial aid to students from ordinary undergraduate colleges, higher and secondary vocational schools whose families have financial difficulties through bursaries and other forms.

Promote the development of medical and health services. The central government spent 66.431 billion yuan on medical and health care, an increase of 296.8%. The coverage of the new rural cooperative medical system has been expanded to 86% of counties across the country, with 730 million participating farmers, and a central government subsidy of 11.4 billion yuan. The basic medical insurance system for urban residents has been piloted, and the finance department will provide a subsidy of no less than 40 yuan per person per year to the insured residents in the pilot cities.

Further promote urban and rural medical assistance, spending 3.4 billion yuan. Increase investment in public health, spending 9.68 billion yuan, focusing on supporting the prevention and treatment of major diseases and the development of community health services.

Support social security and employment. The central government spent 230.316 billion yuan on social security and employment, an increase of 13.7%. A minimum living security system has been comprehensively established in rural areas across the country, and 3 billion yuan has been subsidized to areas with financial difficulties. Local governments have also increased investment. Provide subsidies of 16 billion yuan to support the improvement of the minimum living security system for urban residents. The basic pension standards for enterprise retirees will be raised and subsidies will be 6.5 billion yuan. The standard of pension subsidies for special care recipients was raised, and the scope of special care recipients was expanded with a subsidy of 1.7 billion yuan, with more than 6 million recipients receiving subsidies. Subsidies will be provided to urban subsistence allowance recipients and college and technical secondary school students from families with financial difficulties who are greatly affected by rising prices of pork and other food products. A total of 15 billion yuan will be subsidized to industries and groups such as fisheries and taxi drivers that are greatly affected by the price adjustment of refined oil products. The expenditure for separating social functions of enterprises was 5.11 billion yuan. Arranged 20 billion yuan in subsidies for policy closure and bankruptcy of 92 state-owned enterprises, and resettled 357,000 employees. A subsidy of 10 billion yuan will be provided to support the settlement of historical wage arrears for employees of state-owned enterprises. We will support the post-stage support for the resettlement of large and medium-sized reservoirs, spending 13.7 billion yuan. We will increase support for employment and re-employment, provide 23.8 billion yuan in central fiscal subsidies, and further improve preferential tax policies for the employment of special groups such as the unemployed and the disabled.

Strengthen environmental protection and ecological construction. The central government spent 38.37 billion yuan to support the implementation of key forestry ecological projects such as natural forest protection, returning farmland to forests, and control of sandstorm sources in Beijing and Tianjin, and further improved the forest ecological benefit compensation fund policy. Among them, an additional 1.12 billion yuan will be used to continue to subsidize farmers who return farmland to forests after the current food and living expenses subsidies expire. To support the reform of the collective forest rights system, the central government provided a subsidy of 1.58 billion yuan.

Establish a low-rent housing system. The central government has allocated 5.1 billion yuan, and local governments have correspondingly increased investment, formulated supporting fiscal measures, clarified relevant tax and fee support policies, and supported local governments in establishing and improving urban low-rent housing systems. Deepen the reform of the housing system and improve the housing provident fund management system.

Promote cultural undertakings and industrial development. Actively promote the reform of the cultural system, accelerate the construction of rural public cultural service systems, and focus on supporting the implementation of projects such as wireless coverage of central radio and television programs, national sharing of cultural information resources, and rural film screenings, enriching rural cultural life. Support the development of my country’s animation industry.

Strengthen public security services and security. The central government spent 3.3 billion yuan to support the strengthening of quality and safety supervision of export products, carry out quality inspections to crack down on counterfeiting and special rectification, and improve the food safety standard system and inspection and testing system. Spend 3 billion yuan to strengthen court funding guarantees after the reform of the litigation fee system. Help political and legal agencies in poor areas improve law enforcement and case-handling equipment and solve insufficient case-handling funds, with a subsidy of 7.49 billion yuan.