Why emphasize the construction of people's livelihood and the prominent contradictions in the process of construction?

People's livelihood mainly refers to the prominent contradictions and problems in the field of people's livelihood, and refers to the situation that the basic life and development opportunities of the broad masses of people are not effectively guaranteed. The construction of people's livelihood mainly refers to the ideological and practical activities of paying attention to people's livelihood, ensuring people's livelihood, improving people's livelihood and constantly solving people's livelihood problems under the guidance of the state and the government and with the participation of the whole society. The ideological source of China's people's livelihood construction is China's traditional people-oriented thought and Marxist people's livelihood thought. The construction of people's livelihood in China has experienced three main stages: active exploration in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, setbacks during the Cultural Revolution and recovery and development since the reform and opening up. With the rapid economic development, increasing comprehensive national strength and rising international status, China's people's livelihood construction has made remarkable achievements, but at the same time, there are still outstanding problems in China's people's livelihood construction: the gap between the rich and the poor continues to increase, the unemployed population continues to grow, public education develops slowly, public health construction lags behind, social security mechanism is lacking, and urban and rural development is very uneven. These problems are rooted in unbalanced economic development, imperfect social system, less government functions and weak social security mechanism. To strengthen the construction of people's livelihood in China, we should adhere to the guidance of Scientific Outlook on Development Thought, adhere to the principle of doing our best and doing what we can, give full play to the main role of the government and encourage the whole society to participate, solve outstanding problems and establish a long-term solution mechanism, and strive to achieve education, income from work, security for the elderly, medical care and housing. In order to achieve the above goals, the following countermeasures can be taken: giving priority to the development of education; Expand the scale of employment; Reform the income distribution system; Improve the social security system; Improve the basic medical system and strengthen social management. Accelerating the construction of people's livelihood is an inevitable requirement for adhering to the road of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, thoroughly implementing Scientific Outlook on Development, building a harmonious socialist society and building a well-off society in an all-round way. Therefore, we should constantly raise awareness, strengthen theoretical research, guide practice with theory, and effectively solve the current problems of people's livelihood construction.