On March 9th, four heads of departments from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development, and the National Health Commission sat down on the same stage, facing livelihood concerns such as employment, housing, elderly care, and medical care, and delivered a warm answer to people's livelihood. We will promote the development of Chinese path to modernization in an inclusive way to ensure people's wellbeing in civil affairs. The Third Plenum of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China pointed out the need to strengthen the construction of inclusive, fundamental, and bottom-up livelihood, and this year's government work report has also made specific arrangements for this. Traditionally, civil affairs and people's livelihood work mainly targets special disadvantaged groups, and the distinctive characteristics of livelihood construction are "fundamental and fallback". Why add 'inclusiveness'? Minister of Civil Affairs Lu Zhiyuan replied, "With the development of China's economy and society, we must adapt to the changing needs of the people, gradually expand the coverage of relevant livelihood security policies, and orderly promote the development of civil livelihood security from a bottom-up and basic to a universal approach." He introduced that promoting the development of civil livelihood security to a universal approach is reflected in "four transformations": first, the target of protection should shift from specific groups to more groups in need of help. Secondly, the service content has shifted from focusing on material security to balancing material assistance, social services, and spiritual care. Thirdly, the guarantee of factors has shifted from mainly relying on the government to being led by the government and actively leveraging the role of multiple forces such as the market and society. Fourthly, the means and methods have shifted from traditional service methods to digital and standardized methods. How to implement it specifically? Lu Zhiyuan provided a detailed introduction to the implementation path from three aspects: ensuring the basic livelihood of disadvantaged groups, child welfare, and services for people with disabilities. From establishing a sound hierarchical and classified social assistance system to firmly guarding against large-scale poverty relapse, from piloting service-oriented social assistance to strengthening dynamic monitoring of low-income populations, policies have built a solid barrier to ensure the basic livelihood of disadvantaged groups. After providing a detailed introduction to various security policies, Lu Zhiyuan also gave an answer to the question of how the "security policies" are protected: "We will strengthen the supervision of various funds such as social assistance, protection for orphans and children without factual support, and subsidies for disabled persons, to ensure that the funds are truly used for all types of service recipients." How will we do this year's employment work? Employment is the biggest livelihood project, connected to the lights of thousands of households and the overall development. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly proposed the implementation of the employment priority strategy and the strengthening of employment priority policies, elevating employment to a strategic level. This year's government work report clearly sets the expected target of economic growth of around 5%, reflecting the need to stabilize employment and benefit people's livelihoods; The clear employment target of an urban survey unemployment rate of around 5.5% and an increase of over 12 million urban jobs reflects the need for greater efforts to stabilize and expand employment. How to do the employment work this year? Wang Xiaoping, Minister of Human Resources and Social Security, provided a detailed introduction to the "employment protection" work from five aspects: firstly, promoting the construction of an employment friendly development mode. It is to enhance the driving force of employment development, making the process of high-quality development a process of improving and expanding employment. This is the fundamental solution to the employment problem. Secondly, organize and implement employment support programs. At the same time, we will comprehensively implement existing employment policies such as stable employment return and government subsidies, and timely reserve and introduce policies for increasing employment. Last year, the balance of special loans for stabilizing employment was over 300 billion yuan, and this year the loan amount will be further increased. Thirdly, effectively improve the efficiency of matching people with positions and improve the public employment service system. Starting from cracking the problem of 'having work but no one to do it', solve the problem of 'having people but no work to do it'. Fourthly, we will focus on promoting entrepreneurship to drive employment. Last year, the balance of entrepreneurial guarantee loans was 270 billion yuan, and this year we will continue to increase our efforts. Fifth, ensure stable employment for key groups. We will also focus on creating a more fair and orderly employment environment, strengthen the protection of the rights and interests of workers in flexible employment and new forms of employment, continue to carry out special actions to clean up and rectify the order of the human resources market, investigate and punish illegal activities such as employment discrimination, illegal job agencies, and recruitment fraud in accordance with the law, and safeguard the employment rights and interests of workers Wang Xiaoping emphasized. Stabilizing the real estate market: a combination of punches, a tough battle. The real estate market involves the interests of thousands of households. Last year's "9.26" Central Politburo meeting made an important deployment to promote the stabilization of the real estate market. This year's government work report proposes to continue to vigorously promote the real estate market to stop falling and stabilize. How to stabilize the real estate market? Minister of Housing and Urban Rural Development Ni Hong stated that the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development, together with relevant departments, has launched a combination of punches to stabilize the real estate market and fought a tough battle. He explained that the "combination of measures" includes interest rate cuts by the People's Bank of China, increased loans by financial institutions, and tax reductions by the finance and taxation departments. The "four cancellations, four reductions, and two increases" real estate policies continue to be implemented, and various regions have also implemented targeted and precise policies to support residents' rigid and improved housing needs. A tough battle "is a joint effort between the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development and the State Administration of Financial Supervision to make good use of the real estate financing coordination mechanism, increase financial support for" whitelist "projects, and fight a tough battle to ensure the delivery of houses. Through our efforts, we have achieved our annual target tasks and safeguarded the legitimate rights and interests of homebuyers Ni Hong said. For this year's "stabilizing the real estate market" work, Ni Hong stated that four key things need to be done well: first, consolidate the effect of the policy "combination punch", fully release the policy effects of interest rate cuts, loan increases, tax reductions, etc., and benefit more people; Continue to fight the battle of "guaranteeing delivery of houses", effectively safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of homebuyers, provide strong financing support, and fully guarantee the delivery of project construction. Secondly, we will strengthen the implementation of urban village and dilapidated house renovation. We will continue to expand the scale of renovation on the basis of adding 1 million units last year. Thirdly, promote the acquisition of existing commercial housing. The government work report proposes to allocate 4.4 trillion yuan for local government special bonds this year, one of which will be used for land acquisition, storage, and purchase of existing commercial housing. Fourthly, we will reform and improve the basic systems for the development, financing, and sales of commercial housing, accelerate the construction of a new model for real estate development, meet the high-quality housing needs of the people, promote the construction of safe, comfortable, green, and smart "good houses", and promote the stable and healthy development of the real estate market. The life expectancy of Chinese residents has reached 79 years, and there is still significant potential for improvement. "I am pleased to report to you and media reporters here. In 2024, the life expectancy of Chinese residents has reached 79 years, an increase of 0.4 years from 2023!" In response to the question "What is the current health level of Chinese residents?", Lei Haichao, Director of the National Health Commission, first announced this good news, which amazed the audience. Lei Haichao pointed out that achieving such results is quite difficult. Internationally, when the average life expectancy of a country or region exceeds 75 years, it generally increases by an average of 0.1-0.2 years per year. He introduced that the average life expectancy of the three municipalities directly under the central government of Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai, as well as the eight provinces of Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, and Hainan, has exceeded 80 years. The potential for increasing the life expectancy of Chinese residents in the future is still evident and within reach. We are also facing the dual challenges of infectious diseases and chronic non communicable diseases, and health work needs to be continuously strengthened to implement the Party Central Committee's health priority development strategy. The main risk factors currently endangering the health of the Chinese people come from chronic non communicable diseases Lei Haichao stated that the National Health Commission will promote the prevention and control of chronic diseases, especially weight management, from three aspects: first, we will continue to promote the government, industry, units, and individuals to fulfill their responsibilities. Chronic disease prevention and control require the participation of the whole society, and everyone should create a good community, workplace, and social environment for weight management. Secondly, we need to continue to promote knowledge on chronic disease prevention and weight management, mobilize medical and health institutions to actively promote and disseminate health knowledge, and further enhance residents' health literacy. Thirdly, we also need to pay attention to the combination of prevention and treatment, and provide personalized services. Because after all, some comrades do not manage their weight well, with a large waist circumference and excessive weight, and some even suffer from chronic diseases, so they need the help of professional doctors and medical institutions When Lei Haichao said this, it triggered a knowing smile in the audience. Unexpectedly, the primary challenge facing the construction of a healthy China is weight control. The 3-hour Q&A session, which includes precise interpretation of policy knowledge and vivid interpretation of people's livelihood, reflects the vivid practice of the "people-centered" governance philosophy in China in the new era. (New Society)