BEIJING: China’s latest push to further dynamically monitor the living conditions of low-income groups while providing critical assistance for vulnerable families and individuals will offer fresh impetus to the nation’s common prosperity drive, officials and analysts have said.
At an executive meeting last month, the State Council, China’s Cabinet, adopted a guideline to widen the social security net for vulnerable groups, along with another policy document that will provide meal services for seniors.
Key steps include further optimizing a national information platform that keeps track of low-income groups, improving a database for vulnerable individuals and beefing up social security programs so that they can offer tailored social assistance to struggling families.
Tang Chengpei, vice-minister of civil affairs, told a news briefing after the release of the guideline that the latest measures spoke volumes about the emphasis the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council have placed on the well-being of low-income groups. He explained that one of the first major steps the guideline urges is to identify families that require social assistance.
“In addition to channels that encourage low-income families to apply for social assistance, we need to give play to the role of big data shared between different departments and dispatch more grassroots workers to households to find those in need,” he said. –The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item