China Net News The State Council Information Office held a press conference on June 10, 2025, inviting Xiao Weiming, Deputy Secretary-General of the National Development and Reform Commission, and relevant persons in charge of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, and the National Health Commission to introduce the relevant policies on further ensuring and improving people's livelihood, and answer questions from reporters.
Xiao Weiming, Deputy Secretary-General of the National Development and Reform Commission China Network Photography
The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core attaches great importance to ensuring and improving people's livelihood. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that "Chinese-style modernization, people's livelihood is the most important thing" and "family affairs and state affairs in the world, so that people can live a happy life is the top priority", and clearly requires "to do more practical things in strengthening basic, universal and basic people's livelihood construction and solving the urgent, difficult and worrying problems of the people."
Since the new era, my country has made historic achievements in people's livelihood construction. The battle against poverty has achieved a comprehensive victory, with nearly 100 million rural poor people lifted out of poverty; the world's largest social security system has been built, 1.07 billion people participated in basic pension insurance, and 1.32 billion people participated in basic medical insurance; the degree of education popularity at all levels has reached or exceeded the average level of middle- and high-income countries; the average education period of new labor force in 2024 exceeds 14 years; the average life expectancy of the average life expectancy reaches 79 years; the per capita disposable income of residents in the country reached 41,300 yuan, and the relative gap between urban and rural residents' income continues to narrow, and the Engel coefficient remains below 30%.
The picture is the press conference site
