The central economic work conference held recently stressed that "social policies should hold the bottom line of people's livelihood", "we should comprehensively promote economic development and people's livelihood security", and make a new round of deployment around key areas of people's livelihood. From the signals released by this meeting, employment, pension, childbirth, education, medical treatment and housing have become the key driving points in the field of people's livelihood in 2022. Industry insiders believe that the reform in the field of people's livelihood has entered a critical period, focusing on the "urgent difficulties and expectations" of the people, adhering to doing our best, acting within our capacity, providing more targeted measures, and the dividend of people's livelihood will be further released in 2022. Strengthen employment priority orientation Employment is the biggest livelihood and the first of the "six stabilities" and "six guarantees". "We should strengthen the priority orientation of employment in promoting high-quality development and improve the employment driving force of economic growth", "solve the employment problems of college graduates and other young people, and improve flexible employment and social security policies", "Market players carry hundreds of millions of people's employment and entrepreneurship. We should continue to implement new tax cuts and fee reductions for market players"... The central economic work conference released the signal of strengthening employment stabilization. From January to October 2021, 11.33 million new urban jobs were created in China, completing the annual target tasks ahead of schedule. However, the employment pressure should not be underestimated. "From the demand side of the job market, affected by the epidemic, the global supply chain is not smooth, the cost of raw materials of enterprises is rising, and the market players will continue to face pressure; from the supply side, the number of college graduates in 2022 is expected to be 10.76 million, an increase of 1.67 million year-on-year, which will face some challenges in ensuring employment." Yao Kai, director of the global scientific and creative talent development research center of Fudan University, told the economic information daily. Industry experts pointed out that the central economic work conference paid a lot of attention to employment, and it is expected that great efforts will be made to pay close attention to employment in 2022. "With stability at the forefront and seeking progress while maintaining stability, the supply and demand sides of the job market will make full efforts to implement the measures to reduce and stabilize employment." Yao Kai pointed out that from the demand side, the implementation of new tax cuts and fee reductions for market subjects will help market subjects enhance their ability to resist risks, enhance the confidence of market subjects and give better play to the role of stabilizing employment. From the supply side, at present, the number of flexible employment in China has exceeded 200 million. With the change of industrial upgrading and the continuous development of new business forms, flexible employment will become an important employment starting point in the future. Zhang Chenggang, director of the China new employment pattern research center of the Capital University of economics and trade, told the economic information daily that the employment market still faces some uncertain factors due to the superposition of economic restructuring and uncertainty in the post epidemic era. He believes that in the coming year, it is necessary to evaluate the employment policies for young people such as college graduates in order to alleviate the problem of "slow employment". At the same time, the graduates of Vocational and technical education schools will be included in the scope of the existing employment policy. When formulating and issuing policies, relevant departments should strengthen linkage, further enhance the confidence of market subjects, and give full play to the role of new employment forms in promoting employment. Actively respond to population aging "Promoting the national overall planning of basic old-age insurance", "promoting the implementation of New Fertility Policies and actively responding to population aging" - the central economic work conference also responded to the pension and fertility issues concerned by the people. "We should support social forces to increase the supply of inclusive childcare services, reduce the cost of childbearing and parenting education, promote the national overall planning of basic old-age insurance, actively respond to the aging population, develop human resources for the elderly, cultivate the development of new forms of old-age care, and develop the silver economy." Han Wenxiu, deputy director in charge of daily work of the office of the central financial and Economic Commission, said at the "2021-2022 China economic annual conference" recently. According to relevant forecasts, during the "14th five year plan" period, the national elderly population will exceed 300 million, and will move from mild aging to moderate aging. Improving the overall level of old-age insurance is of great significance to the healthy operation of the old-age insurance system. Relevant parties are already accelerating the deployment. The recently held national teleconference on the overall implementation of basic old-age insurance for enterprise employees stressed the need to unify old-age insurance policies, achieve "national chess game" and better protect the old-age insurance rights and interests of workers and retirees. We should strengthen the management of overall allocation of funds throughout the country, ensure the safety and smooth allocation of funds, and enhance the sustainability and fairness of the old-age insurance system. We should establish a responsibility sharing mechanism for central and local pension insurance expenditure, maintain stability and continuity of central financial support, gradually strengthen the expenditure responsibility of local governments, and ensure that basic pensions are paid in full and on time. "With the accelerated implementation of the national overall planning of the basic old-age insurance for enterprise employees, this system implemented for nearly 25 years will change from local revenue and expenditure to national revenue and expenditure. The basic system will be unified across the country, the information system will be connected across the country, and the fund revenue and expenditure will be allocated across the country, so as to realize a more fair payment responsibility of enterprises among regions and promote the financial sustainability of the basic old-age insurance." Zhang Yinghua, executive researcher of the world social security research center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the economic information daily. We should actively respond to the aging population and accelerate the implementation of the new fertility policy. In July 2021, the decision of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on optimizing Fertility Policies and promoting long-term balanced population development was issued, making a major decision on the implementation of the three child fertility policy and supporting measures. In August, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress adopted a decision on Amending the population and family planning law. Recently, many places have successively revised the population and family planning regulations and introduced measures such as adding parental leave, extending maternity leave and granting subsidies. "In response to the problem of aging, relevant parties have issued a series of measures, which are conducive to promoting China's population growth, so as to alleviate the pressure of aging and the decline of demographic dividend." Yao Kai said. Accurate provision of basic public services The central economic work conference also proposed that we should do our best, act within our capacity, improve the public service policy and system, and accurately provide basic public services in areas of greatest concern to the people, such as education, medical care, pension, housing and so on. Strengthening the basic housing security of residents has been emphasized. The meeting pointed out that we should adhere to the simultaneous development of rental and purchase, accelerate the development of long-term rental housing market, promote the construction of indemnificatory housing, and support the commercial housing market to better meet the reasonable housing needs of buyers. "In the future, the long-term rental housing system dominated by indemnificatory rental housing will become an important supplement to the existing housing system. The investment and construction of indemnificatory rental housing will make an effective contribution to the 'steady growth' in 2022, and the provident fund and special debt will provide financial support. The reasonable demand for improved housing mortgage will also be effectively met." Li Chao, chief economist of Zheshang securities, said. At present, China has built a well-off society in an all-round way, and promoting the common prosperity of all people is placed in a more important position. The meeting defined the strategic objectives and practical ways to achieve common prosperity. Han Wenxiu said that common prosperity is a long-term process and requires the people of the whole country to work hard for a long time. We should expand the "cake" through high-quality development and cut and divide the "cake" through reasonable institutional arrangements. To play a good role in the third distribution, we should support willing and capable enterprises and social groups to actively participate in public welfare and philanthropy. "Common prosperity is not egalitarianism, but to expand the 'cake' in development and optimize the distribution system. In the future, from the perspective of the overall situation, China will comprehensively promote the comprehensive reform of the fiscal and tax system, capital market, real estate, education, pension and other fields, effectively improve the residents' sense of income acquisition and optimize the macro income distribution pattern." Luo Zhiheng, vice president of YueKai Securities Research Institute, said. (outlook new era)