How to cultivate top-notch innovative talents? In what aspects will we focus on promoting stable employment in 2024? How to solve the problem of real estate development? What are the new changes in the construction of the disease control system... In about 1 hour and 40 minutes, four department heads focused on answering the questions raised by 12 journalists. On the afternoon of the 9th, the 14th National People's Congress Second Session People's Livelihood Theme Press Conference was held at the Medea Center in Beijing. The main leaders from the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development, and National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention responded to the hot topics of people's livelihood and introduced measures to benefit the people. The government work report submitted for review on the 5th to cultivate top-notch innovative talents and promote the expansion and improvement of basic education has made arrangements for accelerating the development of new quality productive forces. How will the education department make efforts to cultivate top-notch innovative talents and support the development of new quality productive forces? Currently, higher education in China has entered the stage of universal education, with a gross enrollment rate exceeding 60% at the end of last year. Minister of Education Huai Jinpeng stated that in order to build an education strong country, a world important talent center, and an innovation highland, efforts need to be made in cultivating top-notch innovative talents and independent talent cultivation capabilities. "This is also a key way to meet the talent needs of developing new quality productivity and realizing Chinese path to modernization." "To cultivate top-notch innovative talents, we should understand and promote the whole process of discovery, selection, training and evaluation." Huai Jinpeng said that in terms of laying a solid foundation, the education department will promote scientific education based on inquiry practice in basic education, and invite scientific and technological workers and scientists to campus; In the pilot of comprehensive reform of higher education, we encourage universities to showcase their strengths and characteristics, and strengthen the cultivation of talents urgently needed in the economy and society. Huai Jinpeng stated that the education department will increase support for young scientific and technological talents in universities, providing long-term, high-intensity, and stable support from the beginning of their academic career. In order to meet the increasingly urgent desire of the people to attend good schools, the government work report proposes to carry out actions to expand and improve the quality of basic education. Huai Jinpeng said that this aims to make the overall development of education more and more equitable in benefiting eligible children and adolescents, truly achieving a fundamental transformation from "having access to education" to "having access to good education". He introduced a series of targeted measures: adapting to population changes and the process of new urbanization, further optimizing school layout; Accelerate the narrowing of the gap in educational quality between urban and rural areas, regions, and schools, and further increase the number of high-quality degrees; Taking the comprehensive cultivation of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor in the education system and the construction of high-quality textbooks as important tasks, and doing a good job in the addition of scientific education in the "double reduction"... Huai Jinpeng said that this year, in promoting the construction of national smart education platforms, we will choose some places that urgently need applications and have the necessary conditions to build demonstration application platforms. At the same time, we will increase the integration of national resources in the central and western regions, as well as remote areas, so as to better tailor teaching to students and improve school governance capabilities. Efforts should be made in five aspects to stabilize employment and strengthen the construction of skilled talent teams. Employment affects the lives of thousands of households and is also related to the overall economic and social development. In 2023, 12.44 million new urban jobs were created in China. In what areas will the human resources and social security department focus on promoting stable employment this year? Minister of Human Resources and Social Security Wang Xiaoping introduced that the employment market has started well this year, with enterprises resuming production and farmers