CCTV News: The 2025 "Government Work Report" not only sets eye-catching economic growth goals, but also draws an expected new picture of people's livelihood. Issuing childcare subsidies to promote the construction of safe, comfortable, green and smart "good houses" and broadening employment and entrepreneurship channels for young people such as college graduates. A series of "people's livelihood gift packages" in the fields of education, employment, elderly care, and medical care have actively responded to topics of concern to the masses and demonstrated the warmth of people's livelihood.

At the end of 2024, the population aged 60 and above in China reached 310 million. How to make the elderly enjoy a happy old age? At the press conference on March 9, Minister of Civil Affairs Lu Zhiyuan said that we should accelerate the improvement of the urban and rural three-level elderly care service network system and form a quarter-hour elderly care service circle. The ultimate goal of deepening the reform and development of elderly care services is to allow all elderly people to enjoy basic elderly care services, so as to achieve a place for elderly care, a place for elderly care, and a happy old age.

Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs Lu Zhiyuan said: "Build a three-level elderly care service network in counties, townships and villages, form a quarter-hour elderly care service circle, and provide convenient elderly care services for the elderly."

In addition, the Ministry of Civil Affairs will also improve various guarantee policies, deepen the reform of child welfare institutions, and work with relevant departments to improve the care service system for migrant children and left-behind children.

Employment is the greatest livelihood of the people. Wang Xiaoping, Minister of Human Resources and Social Security, introduced that we will focus on stabilizing employment from five aspects: promoting the construction of an employment-friendly development model, organizing and implementing employment support plans, effectively improving the efficiency of matching people and jobs, focusing on promoting entrepreneurship to drive employment, and ensuring employment stability for key groups. In addition, the number of pilot provinces for occupational injury protection for new employment forms will increase to 17, and the minimum standard for basic pension for urban and rural residents will be increased by another 20 yuan per month this year. The series of measures mentioned at the press conference are exciting.

Minister of Human Resources and Social Security Wang Xiaoping said: "Stably improve the level of benefits and raise the minimum standard for basic pension for urban and rural residents. On the basis of last year, an additional 20 yuan per month will be increased. This benefit increase involves 180 million elderly residents in urban and rural areas."

This year's government work report proposes that we must continue to work hard to promote the real estate market to stop falling and stabilize. Ni Hong, Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said that in the future, we will focus on consolidating the effectiveness of the policy "combination punch", step up the implementation of urban villages and dilapidated houses, promote the acquisition of existing commercial housing, promote the construction of safe, comfortable, green and smart "good houses", and promote the stable and healthy development of the real estate market.

Minister of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development Ni Hong said: "Not only should we build a new house into a 'good house', but we should also combine urban renewal and adopt various methods to find ways to transform the old house into a 'good house'."

This year's government work report proposes to strengthen basic medical and health services. Lei Haichao, director of the National Health Commission, introduced that there are more than 600,000 grassroots medical and health institutions in townships, communities and villages in China, and more than 5 million grassroots medical staff are working on the front line. More than 90% of village clinics have been included in the scope of designated medical insurance services. The Ministry of Finance has invested nearly 900 million yuan in the past two years to update and upgrade medical equipment for township health centers in the central and western regions.

Lei Haichao, director of the National Health Commission, said: "This year our goal is to further promote the coverage of close-range medical alliances and medical communities in 90% of counties and districts, and achieve basic full coverage of close-range medical communities in county by 2027."