We will promote the realization of basic old-age care services for all elderly people

Promoting the realization of basic old-age care services for all the elderly is an inevitable requirement for improving the population service system covering the whole life cycle and promoting long-term balanced population development. The population issue bears on the sustainable development and great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.  We will promote the access of all elderly people to basic old-age care services, and include all types of elderly people, such as families with only one child and families with special family planning, in the scope of unified basic old-age care services. We will further improve the population service system covering the whole life cycle, and actively respond to the risks and challenges of elderly care brought about by the demographic transformation. Promoting the access of all elderly people to basic old-age care services and making institutional arrangements for providing for the elderly can alleviate the widespread social anxiety about old-age care, alleviate the family pressure of young people, stabilize people's expectations of old-age care and life expectancy, enhance young people's willingness to have children, and liberate more workers from family care for the elderly. We will promote long-term and balanced population development.

Promoting the realization of basic old-age care services for all the elderly is an important action to grasp the law of old-age care services and promote the solution to the global problem of aging. Dealing with the aging population is a worldwide problem, and one of the most prominent challenges is to provide for the elderly. Since China entered an aging society at the end of the 20th century, the number and proportion of the elderly population in the total population have continued to grow, and it is expected to enter moderate aging during the 14th Five-Year Plan period and enter severe aging around 2035. The trend of increasing population aging in China is closely related to the course of achieving the second centenary goal, and is closely connected with the major changes in the world today that have not been seen in a century, and is the basic national conditions on the new journey to comprehensively build a modern socialist country. China's elderly population accounts for about a quarter of the world's population. At the same time, China faces prominent difficulties such as getting old before getting rich, getting old before getting ready, and unbalanced regional development. There is no precedent in the history of world population development to address the problem of providing for the elderly in such a country. Promoting the access of all the elderly to basic old-age care services, solving the problem of old-age care in countries with the largest elderly population in the world, promoting the development of the silver-haired economy, stimulating employment and expanding domestic demand, and promoting the positive interaction between domestic and international cycles will provide valuable experience and important reference for countries in the world to actively respond to the major challenges of population aging and build a community with a shared future for mankind.

Second, the new journey to promote the basic principles and directions of the realization of basic old-age care services for all the elderly

Adhere to the Party's overall leadership over the construction of the basic elderly care service system.  We will make coordinated efforts to develop a system of basic elderly care services. Local party committees and governments at all levels should incorporate the basic elderly care service system into economic and social development planning and important agendas, incorporate the important deployment of the national strategy to actively respond to the aging population, incorporate the areas of shortcomings in livelihood undertakings that urgently need to be made up, and promote the solution of major problems in the construction of the basic elderly care service system.

The overall goal of development is to meet the aspirations of the elderly for a better life.  Focus on the most basic, rigid, and common needs of the elderly for elderly care services, focus on solving the worries, annoyances, and worries that the people strongly express in the field of elderly care services, gradually expand the content of basic elderly care services, continuously enhance fairness and accessibility, and ensure that the policies of basic elderly care services meet the actual conditions of the country, respond to the voice of the masses, and meet the needs of society. Let the people realize that our Party serves the people wholeheartedly and that the Party is always at the people's side.

 This major deployment provides a clear direction and fundamental compliance for the development of China's pension services, which is of great significance for realizing, maintaining and developing the fundamental interests of the vast majority of the people under the situation of an aging population, and making the people's sense of gain, happiness and security more substantial, more secure and more sustainable.