Five-year planning is both “national” and “family”. What are the priority initiatives in the “155” period, in the area of public services, to make the public more accessible? On the afternoon of 7 march, during a briefing at the press office of the state council, liu dechun, director of the social development department of the national development and reform commission, described the fact that, over the next five years, the country will be moving further towards a new people-centred urbanization, a sound allocation of public resources commensurate with the resident population, an effective coverage of the resident population by basic public services in towns, a reduction in the gap between basic public services in urban and rural areas and a significant increase in the level of parity of basic public services。
In the area of education, liu dechun described the acceleration of the development of mechanisms for the allocation of resources for education that are commensurate with demographic changes, and the promotion of an increase of 0. 4 years in the average length of schooling for the working-age population, from 11. 3 to 11. 7 years。
Among them, basic education focuses on quality enhancement. The integrated promotion of quality inclusive development of pre-school education, the balanced development of compulsory education, the steady expansion of free education, the exploration of longer compulsory education, and the construction and expansion of 1,000 high-quality general secondary schools. Vocational education is more integrated with maternity education. - support for the establishment of 500 new training centres for the integration of high-level teachers of labour, the deepening of the integration of labour teaching and the cooperation of schools, and the matching of vocational education with industry's needs in terms of volume, structure and quality. Higher education is again being expanded. (c) a modest expansion of the scope of the “two-class” construction, support for the deployment of new research-type universities, the promotion of high levels of cooperation between middle and foreign schools, and an orderly increase in the number of students enrolled in quality undergraduate education。
In the area of health care, public health capacity has been continuously strengthened, the functional positioning and layout of health institutions has been optimized, and the average life expectancy has been raised to 80 years, i. E. Almost at the level of high-income countries. There are three main areas of emphasis: the first is a strong health infrastructure and the construction of 1,000 close district medical communities to meet the needs of the population at home. Second is the expansion of rehabilitation care, which supports a number of urban level ii hospitals in the context of the practical development of such services as rehabilitation care, and the overall strengthening of the multi-level and diverse system of rehabilitation care and palliative care services. The third is a balanced distribution of quality health-care resources, which promotes efficiency gains in the regional health centres in 125 countries, supports the building of a number of provincial high-level hospitals and increases clinical capacity, and strives to achieve high-quality health care。
In the area of social security, there has been a steady push to increase the coverage of social security and to ensure that people are kept on the bottom line. The focus is on expanding the coverage of unemployment and injury insurance, establishing a sound occupational injury insurance system and increasing the participation of flexible workers, rural workers and new forms of employment. The proposal focuses on improving the mechanisms for determining and adjusting basic pension benefits, gradually increasing the basic pension for urban and rural residents and increasing the standard of health benefits for urban and rural residents。
