李强主持召开国务院常务会议

CCTV.com News (Xinwen Lianbo): Premier Li Qiang chaired a State Council executive meeting on November 6 to study and implement the guiding principles of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech on the economic situation in the first three quarters and priorities for the remaining months, and to hear a report on social assistance work.

The meeting noted the need to thoroughly grasp the CPC Central Committee's sound assessment of the economic situation and its requirements for the next stage of work, maintain confidence in development, effectively strengthen a sense of responsibility and urgency, and steadily advance the implementation of all policies so that they deliver results, ensuring completion of the main objectives and tasks for economic and social development for the year. It called for sustained efforts in key areas, accelerating the implementation of major projects and construction of the "six networks," supporting enterprises in expanding investment in equipment upgrades and intangible assets, strengthening links between online and offline consumption and between urban and rural consumption, and facilitating a virtuous cycle between investment and consumption. It called for making full and effective use of all policy-based funds, disbursing all types of payments involving local-level authorities and enterprises in full and on time, and better realizing the effects of coordinated fiscal and financial policies in boosting domestic demand. Solid work must be done to stabilize employment, prevent risks and ensure people's livelihoods, with stronger employment services for key groups and employment support for graduates facing difficulties from households lifted out of poverty, households receiving subsistence allowances and households with no employed members. Workplace safety risks and hazards must be thoroughly and meticulously identified and addressed, and major and particularly serious accidents must be resolutely prevented. Efforts must continue to defuse risks in areas such as local government debt and small and medium-sized financial institutions. Mechanisms for stabilizing capital markets must be improved, the stock market's inherent stability strengthened, and the steady and healthy development of capital markets promoted. Efforts must be strengthened to ensure supplies, stabilize prices and assist people in need, accelerate recovery and reconstruction in disaster-affected areas, and effectively ensure the resettlement and basic living needs of those affected. Careful study must be given to the approach to economic work next year, coordination of policies across years must be strengthened, and the economy's continued improvement must be promoted.

The meeting noted that social assistance is an important institutional arrangement that provides a safety net for people's basic livelihoods. The social assistance system must be further improved, with progress toward a system grounded in the rule of law, digital and intelligent technologies, standardized procedures and professional services, so that it can better ensure basic needs, prevent risks and promote development. Efforts must focus on weak links to effectively strengthen basic support for vulnerable groups, improve assistance measures for households just above the subsistence allowance threshold and households experiencing hardship due to unavoidable expenditures, strengthen dynamic monitoring and interdepartmental data sharing, and improve the mechanism of "a single point of acceptance and coordinated processing," striving to cover everyone eligible for support. The scope of social assistance must be actively expanded to meet new needs. With a focus on strengthening recipients' own motivation for development, development-oriented assistance measures such as employment support and work-relief programs must be effectively implemented. Service-based social assistance, including care and support, must be comprehensively advanced to continuously enhance the sense of gain among people in need.

The meeting also considered other matters.