The Council of State determines measures to strengthen the guarantee of fiscal spending on people’s livelihoods

According to the Xinhua News Agency

Prime Minister Li Keqiang of the State Council chaired an executive meeting of the State Council on November 6 to determine measures to strengthen the protection of financial expenditures for people’s livelihoods and enhance the sense of profit and sustainability of policies for benefit people; to implement a deep development of patriotic health in combination with the prevention and control of the new corona pneumonia epidemic in winter and the prevention of other disease movement.

The meeting noted that since the beginning of this year, the epidemic has had a major impact on the employment, income and lives of low-income people, including migrant workers, poor households and flexible employees. All regions and departments seriously implemented the deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, drastically reduced government spending, and increased the security of people’s basic livelihoods. In the first three quarters, pensions and retirees per capita increased 8.7% year-on-year, and social assistance and subsidies increased 12.9%. In the special and difficult circumstances of the impact, the basic livelihood of the people was preserved and the sentiment of the people stabilized. In the next step, we must persevere in doing our best and doing what we can, and gradually raising the level of protection and improving people’s livelihoods. The first is to prioritize securing people’s living expenses in budget arrangements and ensuring that the state-issued unified people’s livelihood policy is fully guaranteed. Implement the reform requirements for the division of fiscal powers and spending responsibilities between central and local governments, and fully guarantee education, pensions, medical care, subsistence allowances and housing security and other matters of livelihoods according to spending responsibilities. The second is to improve people’s livelihoods. Establish a long-term mechanism for direct access to people’s livelihood funds to ensure that funds reach the beneficiaries accurately and directly Based on the national list of basic public services, combined with actual exploration and the establishment of a livelihood expense list management system, pilot projects in the fields of education and health insurance and gradually expand the scope. The third is to enhance the sense of acquisition and sustainability of policies that benefit people. Initiative needs to be taken to accelerate people’s livelihood deficiencies, but also to ensure that people’s livelihood expenditures are coordinated with economic development and matched with financial situation to avoid divorce of reality. It is strictly forbidden to implement projects beyond planning and financial resources. The fourth is to intensify supervision. If the implementation of the livelihood policy of the population is not in place or is not sustainable, it is necessary to urge that they be corrected quickly. Those who withhold embezzlement or arbitrate funds for people’s livelihood must be seriously investigated and held accountable. The fifth is to insist on the hard life of the government, resolutely reduce overhead costs and focus the funds saved on the livelihood of the people, especially to solve the livelihood difficulties of the people and increase the protection of the people in distress.

The meeting noted that the patriotic health movement has played an important role in promoting and protecting people’s health and must be constantly understood. Winter is an important time to carry out the patriotic health campaign, the relevant departments should promote the relevant work, at present the patriotic health campaign should be combined with the prevention and control of winter epidemics, influenza and other epidemics. First, we must do a good job in preventing and controlling the normalized epidemic in winter. Maintain good practices such as frequent hand washing, indoor ventilation and sharing meals, and implement requirements such as the use of masks and maintain social distancing in accordance with prevention and control needs. Summarize the prevention and control experience, scientifically study and judge the epidemic situation, improve the emergency plan for the prevention and control of grouped epidemics, strengthen the protection of epidemic prevention materials, rationally deploy prevention and control forces such as circulation , detection and treatment, seeking the truth from the facts and disclosing information in an open and transparent manner. At the same time, do a good job preventing the flu and other common illnesses. Second, we must comprehensively promote the comprehensive improvement of urban and rural environmental sanitation. Focus on key places and weak links, such as farmers markets, small restaurants, old communities and urban-rural slums, continue to do a good job in managing environmental sanitation and eliminate the breeding environment of disease-causing organisms. Third, we must strengthen the construction of public health facilities and treatment facilities, such as garbage and sewage, and crack down on disorderly discharge. Improve treatment of medical waste and sewage. Fourth, we must guide the public to develop good hygiene habits, advocate for a healthy lifestyle, promote smoking cessation, alcohol restriction, moderate exercise, reasonable diet, carry out science knowledge of health, incorporate health education into the national educational system, improve literacy in public health and the health of the entire population, and promote health. China construction.