It’s about food, clothing, housing and transportation! The working meetings of various ministries and commissions have set these important events for people’s livelihood.
Xinhuanet Beijing, January 3 (Chen Junsong) Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and other national ministries and commissions held annual work meetings to deploy key tasks for the new year. These meetings contain many new policy paths, revealing a new prospect of benefiting people’s livelihood this year.
Housing: increase the effective supply of rental housing.
"Houses are used for living, not for speculation." At the National Conference on Housing and Urban-Rural Construction, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development reiterated this position, and stressed that this year we should continue to maintain the continuity and stability of regulatory policies with the goal of stabilizing land prices and housing prices.
Judging from the contents of the meeting, developing the rental market is one of the tasks that the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development pays close attention to. The meeting made it clear that the short board of rental housing should be filled, and the measures should be exerted from both ends of supply and demand.
Supply-side measures include increasing the effective supply of public rental housing in megacities and big cities, accelerating the construction of rental housing, and promoting the pilot work of collective land construction of rental housing; The demand side is to improve the renting ability of renters, such as deepening the reform of housing provident fund system, studying the establishment of residential policy financial institutions, and increasing the support for low-income families and new citizens in cities and towns to rent houses.
The State Council recently officially released the Interim Measures for Special Additional Deduction of Personal Income Tax, which stipulates that special additional deduction includes housing rent. For renters, this is undoubtedly a great new year’s benefit.
In addition, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has included "accelerating the solution to the housing difficulties of low-and middle-income groups" as its central task this year, including developing shared property housing according to local conditions and promoting the transformation of shanty towns.
On December 29, 2018, the C1508 train of Xintong High-speed Railway left Ganqika Station. On the same day, with the official opening of the new (Xinmin) Tong (Tongliao) high-speed railway, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region was merged into the national high-speed railway network for the first time. Xinhua News Agency reporter Yan Dongsheng photo
Transportation: 3200 kilometers of new high-speed railway line has been put into operation.
The working meeting of the Ministry of Transport proposed that in 2019, the investment in fixed assets of highways and waterways should be about 1.8 trillion yuan, 200,000 kilometers of rural roads should be newly rebuilt, and major projects such as Beijing Daxing International Airport should be completed as scheduled.
At the same time, a comprehensive three-dimensional traffic network planning outline for the next 30 years will be compiled to meet the needs of building a transportation power, and the construction of a comprehensive three-dimensional traffic corridor in the Yangtze River Economic Belt will be accelerated.
It is worth noting that the revision of the Highway Law, Toll Road Management Regulations and Rural Highway Regulations has also been placed in an important position in the work of the Ministry of Transport next year.
The above-mentioned "one law and two regulations" began to solicit amendments on December 20 last year, among which the "Regulations on the Management of Toll Roads" attracted much attention. There are six major changes in the revised draft of this regulation, including raising the threshold for toll roads, and not charging for new first-and second-class roads, independent bridges and tunnels.
The regulation also requires the implementation of the State Council’s request to promote the cancellation of provincial toll stations on expressways. At the end of last month, Jiangsu, Shandong, Chongqing and Sichuan, as the first batch of pilot provinces, took the lead in canceling 15 provincial toll stations on expressways.
The revised draft of Highway Law has also carried out a top-level design for cost reduction, in which it is clear that in the future, highway development should focus on non-toll roads and appropriately develop toll roads.
On the railway side, the working meeting of the National Railway Corporation requires that the national railway fixed assets investment should be maintained at a strong scale, ensuring that 6,800 kilometers of new lines will be put into operation in 2019, including 3,200 kilometers of high-speed rail. The data shows that by the end of 2018, the mileage of China’s high-speed rail has exceeded 29,000 kilometers.
On November 16, 2018, students from Jizhou District Vocational Education Center in Hengshui City showed their paper works. In recent years, Jizhou District, Hengshui City, Hebei Province has continuously increased its capital investment in vocational education, and trained order-based professional talents through "school-enterprise combination" and "work-study combination", which has been welcomed by employers. Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Xiaoshe
Employment: Make every effort to ensure a stable employment situation.
In the recent working meeting, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security put "improving and implementing policies and measures to stabilize employment and making every effort to ensure the stability of the employment situation" at the top of the six key tasks this year.
Employment is the biggest livelihood. At present, China’s economic operation is changing steadily. Under this background, the role of employment as a "stabilizer" is particularly important.
In fact, recently, measures to stabilize employment have been intensively introduced. The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and other three departments jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting All-round Public Employment Services" at the beginning of last month, requiring public employment service institutions at all levels to provide 10 basic services such as vocational training, vocational introduction and vocational guidance free of charge.
In November last year, the State Council issued "Several Opinions on Doing a Good Job in Promoting Employment at Present and in the Future", which clearly stated that it is necessary to increase the support for stabilizing posts. For insured enterprises that do not lay off employees or lay off fewer employees, 50% of the unemployment insurance premium actually paid in the previous year can be returned.
Employment assistance for key groups is also steadily advancing. For example, the Ministry of Education put forward a number of specific measures to guide college graduates to work at the grassroots level and to small and micro enterprises.
On November 7, 2018, Michael Hurley of Voith Company took a group photo with the product at the China International Import Expo(CIIE). Xinhua News Agency reporter Fang Yushe
Consumption: Cultivating Domestic Market and Expanding New Growth Point of Consumption
A number of ministries and commissions proposed to cultivate the domestic development market and promote consumption. It can be expected that with the intensive release of policy dividends such as increasing income and reducing taxes in 2019, the new space for upgrading consumption will continue to expand.
Consumption has become the first driving force of China’s economy. Data show that in the first three quarters of 2018, consumption contributed 78% to economic growth. Since January this year, a number of income-increasing bonus packages have been fully implemented, such as the special additional deduction policy for personal income tax.
The National Development and Reform Commission proposed that this year we should actively expand new growth points of consumption, promote the formation of a strong domestic market, and improve the overall level of the national economy.
At the National Business Work Conference, the Ministry of Commerce made comprehensive arrangements in terms of innovating circulation methods, optimizing the consumption environment, and expanding the supply of goods and services to further promote consumption upgrading in 2019.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology proposes to continuously upgrade and expand information consumption, support product innovations such as wearable devices, consumer drones, intelligent service robots and virtual reality, and guide local governments to build a number of new information consumption demonstration cities.
At the same time, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will also take measures to release the potential of the digital economy, such as continuing to speed up and reduce network fees, promoting a substantial reduction in roaming charges between the mainland and Hong Kong and Macao, promoting the expansion of inter-network bandwidth, upgrading the existing websites and apps with IPv6, and accelerating the deployment of 5G businesses.
Shangnan Road, Rangtang County, Sichuan Province, is nearly 40 kilometers long and meanders in the mountains above 3000 meters above sea level. At the end of 2017, after the reconstruction and expansion of Shangnan Road, it facilitated the travel of Tibetan herdsmen and became the "heavenly road" for local Tibetan herdsmen to get rid of poverty and become rich. This is Shangnan Road photographed by a drone on August 20, 2018. Xinhua News Agency reporter Jiang Hongjing photo
Get rid of poverty: ensure another 10 million rural poor people are reduced.
The Central Economic Work Conference emphasized that in order to fight the tough battle against poverty, we should make concerted efforts, focus on solving the outstanding problems facing the realization of "two guarantees and three guarantees", and increase the efforts of poverty-stricken areas and special poverty groups such as "three districts and three States" to fight poverty.
Poverty alleviation has entered the most critical stage. The national poverty alleviation and development work conference requires that next year, prevention of returning to poverty should be placed in a more important position to ensure that the rural poor population will be reduced by about 10 million. In addition, it is necessary to remove the hats of about 300 poverty-stricken counties and basically complete the planning and construction tasks of ex situ poverty alleviation and relocation in the 13 th Five-Year Plan.
The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has proposed that in 2019, all the remaining 1.6 million dangerous houses with four key targets, such as poverty-stricken households with established files, will be included in the annual renovation plan. The Ministry of Transport also requires that qualified towns and villages be paved with hardened roads before the end of this year, so as to complete the task of traffic poverty alleviation.
The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs all proposed to win the battle against poverty. Among them, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs clearly stated that "it is necessary to ensure that the fight against poverty cannot be delayed and resolutely win the battle against precision poverty".
It can be expected that with the joint efforts of many parties, the living conditions in poverty-stricken areas will be further improved and the work of getting rid of poverty will be solidly promoted.