"Strengthen the planning and construction requirements of elderly care service facilities, promote the coordinated development of home-based community institutions and the combination of medical care and health care, and improve the training and incentive policies for elderly care service personnel..." the 34th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th Jiangxi Provincial People's Congress deliberated and adopted the regulations of Jiangxi Province on elderly care services (hereinafter referred to as the regulations), which was officially implemented on January 1, 2022. "Based on reality and focusing on the future, the regulations have drawn a 'hard bar' to promote the high-quality development of elderly care services in Jiangxi Province." Hu Shizhong, deputy director of the Standing Committee of Jiangxi Provincial People's Congress, said that the promulgation of the regulations has provided a strong legal guarantee for the local government to promote a sense of security and dependence for the elderly. Legislation to solve the "three difficulties" of pension "It is becoming more and more obvious that 'getting old before getting rich' and 'getting old before getting ready'. In recent years, the aging situation in Jiangxi Province has shown the characteristics of rapid growth, empty nest, disability and dementia, and more elderly people." Turning to the aging trend of the local population, Ren Xinhua, director of the elderly care service department of the Department of civil affairs of Jiangxi Province, came straight to the point. By the end of 2020, the population aging rate in Jiangxi had reached 16.87%, an increase of 5.43% over 2010. "We include elderly care services in the special topics of the Standing Committee of the current National People's Congress, regularly organize elderly care service research, find gaps and touch the situation." Han Yan, vice chairman of the Social Construction Committee of Jiangxi Provincial People's Congress (hereinafter referred to as the Social Committee), said. "The long board is not long, and the short board is too short". Ren Xinhua bluntly found that there are "three difficulties" in the elderly care service in Jiangxi - land use, employment and money. At the end of 2019, the Social Committee of Jiangxi Provincial People's Congress and the elderly care service office of Jiangxi Provincial Department of civil affairs "organized a team" to carry out intensive research inside and outside the province for two months. "Jiangxi Province has reached the national standard for per capita land for elderly care services, but considering the tight land supply in urban built-up areas and economic factors, many elderly care institutions are built in remote areas far away from the residence of the elderly. No matter how big or good they are, the elderly are unwilling to go." "Many cities are facing the contradiction between supply and demand of pension land," Ren Xinhua said "The beds inside are empty and no one lives. The elderly outside are waiting in a long queue, and the elderly care institutions just don't accept it". The "strange phenomenon" reflected by the masses in the survey triggered the thinking of the research group. "There are not enough professional nurses. They don't dare to answer at all." Some agencies are responsible for humanitarian affairs. In 2021, there will be less than 20000 elderly care professionals in Jiangxi Province, which still lags behind the scientific and reasonable proportion of the elderly population. It is understood that with the acceleration of the aging trend, the number of disabled and dementia elderly is increasing, and the demand for professional nursing is becoming more and more diversified. "The shortage of facilities is easy to make up, but the shortage of talents is difficult to do. There are few elderly care talents trained by colleges and universities in Jiangxi Province, and the level is not high. It is difficult to recruit and retain talents in elderly care institutions." Ren Xinhua introduced that the regulations have made a positive response to the "three difficulties" faced by the elderly. "We should protect the land for elderly care services like planning schools and hospitals" Hu Shizhong introduced that the Standing Committee of Jiangxi Provincial People's Congress, the local department of civil affairs, the Department of justice and other departments have established a normalized communication mechanism and maintained close communication at all stages from the drafting of the regulations. From February to June 2021, the Civil Affairs Department of Jiangxi Province completed the solicitation and revision of the opinions and suggestions on the first draft, and the Social Commission intervened in the legislation in advance and quickly launched a new round of research inside and outside the province. "Legislative research should be both targeted and extensive." Liu Yongliang, deputy director of the legal work committee of the Standing Committee of Jiangxi Provincial People's Congress, said that during this period, more than 10 symposiums and demonstration meetings were held, covering many fields and different groups. "The formulation of the regulations is a process of focusing on major problems and solving difficult problems. We must widely listen to and absorb the opinions and suggestions of all parties." Liu Yongliang said. "We should protect the land for elderly care services like planning schools and hospitals". In the legislative work, this view has aroused everyone's resonance. In areas where the proportion of the elderly exceeds 20%, the per capita land standard shall not be less than 0.2 square meters; Planning shall be carried out according to the principles of combination of medical care and maintenance, nearby convenience, relative concentration and reasonable layout; Use idle office buildings, schools and factories to transform and build elderly care service facilities; Residential areas shall be equipped with public welfare elderly care service facilities; The natural resources department should verify whether it meets the planning conditions... Liu Yongliang explained to reporters the part of the regulations on facility planning and construction one by one, "guarantee land use, clarify public welfare attributes, clarify the responsibilities of planning acceptance supervision departments, and form a legal closed loop, all dry goods!" In view of the problem of "difficult employment", the regulations list a separate chapter, from the establishment and improvement of talent training system, to the identification of skill level, and then to the granting of awards or subsidies. Some people vividly say that various provisions cover the employees' "hair" to "toe tip". "Effective" -- Jiangxi Provincial People's Congress has played a real role in these three words. The general provisions of the regulations stipulate that "a stable and effective fund guarantee mechanism shall be established". The original expression was "establish a stable fund guarantee mechanism". "Don't underestimate these three words. With the aggravation of aging, the 'stable' fund guarantee may not work in the future," Liu Yongliang said. The regulations legally specify that the "stable" fund investment should also be "effective" investment. Get through the "last mile" of rural elderly care services Walking into the elderly care service center for the extremely poor and disabled elderly in Yushui District, Xinyu, Jiangxi Province, the intelligent sign monitoring data and nursing list of the elderly are clear on the large screen of the intelligent management platform. Not long ago, Hu Xiuying, an 83 year old man who moved from the town nursing home, completed light rehabilitation exercise under the guidance of nurses and is preparing to build puzzle blocks. "I will provide for the aged here in the future!" She said happily. Yushui district has transformed the idle property in the central urban area into a 3800 square meter pension place. At present, 53 extremely poor disabled elderly and 52 socially disabled elderly are accommodated. Ren Xinhua said: "the extremely poor and disabled elderly are vulnerable groups and have rigid pension needs. Legislation must reflect the public welfare of pension services and the superiority of the socialist system." Ren Xinhua introduced that the original draft of the regulations only generally proposed to strengthen the construction of public elderly care institutions without specific provisions. After repeated revision and discussion, in order to highlight the special care for specific groups, the regulations finally made it clear to support the construction and transformation of centralized care institutions for the extremely poor and disabled elderly, so as to ensure the service needs of the elderly such as widows, disabled, elderly and family planning families with financial difficulties. According to reports, in order to open up the "last mile" of rural elderly care services, Jiangxi has strengthened party building and led rural elderly care services in recent years, built 13120 rural mutual aid elderly care service facilities, covering 77.6% of administrative villages, benefiting 1.6 million elderly people, and achieved remarkable results. Jiangxi has written this successful exploration into the regulations: bring the construction of rural elderly care service facilities into the strategic plan for rural revitalization, and promote the balanced layout of urban and rural elderly care service facilities; We should make use of idle school buildings, collective houses, private houses and other resources to develop rural mutual aid elderly care services in administrative villages and natural villages according to local conditions, and establish and improve the fund guarantee and operation management system. "Another highlight of the regulations is full of details, strong enforceability and operability." Liu Yongliang said. Article 15 of the Regulations stipulates that the supporting elderly care service facilities in residential areas shall be arranged at a reasonable location and on the lower floor of the building, and barrier free elevators shall be set up if they are arranged on the second floor or above of the building; It shall not be arranged in underground, semi underground and interlayer. So what does "residential area" specifically mean? The supplementary provisions of the regulations give a special definition: residential area refers to the area divided on the principle that residents can walk for five minutes to meet their basic living needs. Liu Yongliang said that detailed and specific provisions can make the regulations more operational and more in place. (outlook new era)