Ensuring and Enhancing the People’s Wellbeing in the Course of Development

Ensuring and enhancing the people’s wellbeing in the course of development is one of the major tasks of Chinese modernization. It is imperative to focus on this task and take further steps to increase the sense of fulfillment, happiness, and security people derive from reform.

The Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Deepening Reform Comprehensively to Advance Chinese Modernization (hereinafter “the Resolution”) was adopted at the third plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee.

In the Resolution, the CPC adheres to a people-centered approach and regards the people's aspirations for a better life as the goal it is striving for. To resolve the most practical problems of the greatest and most direct concern to the people, it details reforms in key areas such as income distribution, social security, healthcare, elderly care, and childcare.

To improve income distribution, we will implement a range of plans, including those to boost the incomes of low-income earners, expand the size of the middle-income group, and regulate excessive incomes. We will focus on developing an institutional framework under which primary distribution, redistribution, and tertiary distribution are well coordinated and mutually complementary. We will work to raise the share of personal income in the distribution of national income, give more weight to work remuneration in primary distribution, steadily reduce income disparities, and continue to enhance people’s capacity for consumption.

We will refine long-term mechanisms for expanding consumption, reduce relevant restrictions, and explore avenues for boosting public spending as necessary. Efforts will be made to actively promote the debut economy and improve the incentive mechanisms for eco-friendly consumer spending.

The social security, medical, and healthcare systems will be further reformed. We will establish a sound social security system to serve people in flexible employment, rural migrant workers, and those in new forms of employment. We will weave a stronger social security net to address people’s wellbeing concerns.

We will also do more to increase the availability of quality medical resources and see that such resources are channeled toward the community level in a continuing effort to ensure equitable access to quality healthcare and better meet people’s healthcare needs.

We will improve the systems for supporting population development and providing related services. In response to population aging and the declining birth rate, a sound system will be instituted to provide full life-cycle population services to all.

Focused on bringing down the costs of childbirth, parenting, and education, we will refine policies for boosting the birth rate.

We will make greater efforts to develop a public-benefit childcare service system and boost the supply of basic elderly care services to guarantee access to childcare and elderly care.

Editor: Zhang Xian