Civil affairs work is closely related to people's livelihoods and connects with the hearts of the people, and is a fundamental and fundamental work in social construction. At the "Opening of Authoritative Department Talks" series of themed press conferences held by the State Council Information Office on the 12th, relevant officials from the Ministry of Civil Affairs introduced the situation and answered questions from reporters about promoting high-quality development of civil affairs work. This year, we will focus on promoting the expansion of basic living allowance policies and other basic support work. People with special difficulties need to pay extra attention, care, and care. The Minister of Civil Affairs, Tang Dengjie, stated at the press conference that the Ministry of Civil Affairs adheres to the policy of ensuring basic needs, covering the bottom line, rescuing emergencies, and sustainability, and continues to improve a hierarchical and classified social assistance system with basic living assistance, special social assistance, and emergency social assistance as the main body, supplemented by social forces, to ensure the basic lives of people in special difficulties. Liu Xitang, Director of the Social Assistance Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, introduced that China has timely adjusted its assistance and security standards based on the level of economic and social development. By the end of June this year, the national urban and rural minimum living standards have increased by 4.8% and 8.5% respectively compared to the same period last year. From January to June of this year, a total of 126.5 billion yuan was spent on subsistence allowances, special hardship cases, and temporary assistance funds nationwide, which effectively ensured the basic living standards of people in need. Liu Xitang also stated that the civil affairs department will include low-income earners, extremely poor individuals, marginalized families, families with rigid expenditure difficulties, people who are prone to returning to poverty and poverty, as well as other people in need identified by the local government, into the dynamic monitoring scope, and establish a sharing mechanism with departments and institutions such as education, healthcare, housing construction, rural revitalization, trade unions, and the Disabled Persons' Federation to strengthen monitoring and early warning, Provide support for the construction of a hierarchical and classified social assistance system. When it comes to the key tasks of this year, Tang Dengjie stated that he will focus on promoting the expansion of the minimum living allowance policy, strengthening assistance to marginalized populations and those in need, promoting the implementation of temporary assistance from emergency areas, and establishing an effective linkage mechanism between government assistance and charitable assistance. Urge and guide various regions to design the basic elderly care service system at the provincial level. This year, the Party and state institutions have reformed and improved the elderly care work system, and responsibilities such as organizing, drafting, and coordinating the implementation of policies and measures to address population aging have been transferred to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Tang Dengjie stated that the Ministry of Civil Affairs will firmly seize the important window opportunity period of the "14th Five Year Plan", promote the development of elderly care undertakings and the elderly care industry, and strive to find a path that is in line with China's actual situation and has Chinese characteristics to actively respond to population aging. In May of this year, the national basic elderly care service list was publicly released. Yu Jianliang, Director of the Elderly Care Services Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, stated that in order to promote the realization of basic elderly care services for all elderly people, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, in conjunction with the National Development and Reform Commission, will actively respond to the aging population project in 2023 and arrange investment from the central budget to support the construction of elderly care service facilities; Together with the Ministry of Finance, we will implement the 2023 Action to Improve Home and Community Basic Elderly Care Services, and provide home based elderly care beds and door-to-door services for eligible elderly people with special difficulties or partial disabilities; Together with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development, we will continue to promote the synchronous construction of elderly care service facilities in new residential areas, optimize the layout of community elderly care service facilities, and continuously improve the basic elderly care service capacity. Since the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has urged and guided various regions to design basic elderly care service systems at the provincial level. Currently,