[China @ 2016] How much have you benefited from the eight ＂small goals＂ of people’s livelihood？

　　2016 is the first year of the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan and the crucial year of structural reform on the supply side. Open this year’s "people’s livelihood bill", the pension is raised, the long-distance roaming fee is cancelled, the new rules for online car rental are introduced, a large wave of "small goals" for people’s livelihood have been realized, and the lives of the people have also undergone profound changes.

　　The goal of increasing employment by 10 million people was achieved ahead of schedule.

　　According to the latest data released by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, from January to November this year, the number of new jobs in urban areas in China reached 12.49 million. This 2016 "employment transcript" is eye-catching. The first is "high total score". According to the promise made by Premier Li Keqiang at this year’s National "Two Sessions" — — There are more than 10 million new jobs in cities and towns, and the annual employment targets and tasks have not only been completed ahead of schedule, but also 124.9% have been completed! If the natural attrition of 3.45 million people in the same period is included, the actual number of "new employees" will reach 15.94 million.

　　Comments:Despite the slowdown in economic growth, employment has remained generally stable. "Employment is the foundation of people’s livelihood" and "Employment is economic ‘ Barometer ’ , is the social ‘ Stabilizer ’ " … … Li Keqiang’s emphasis on different occasions not only reveals that employment is one of his biggest concerns, but also means that employment data is as important as GDP and CPI in measuring China’s economic development.

　　The task of lifting 10 million people out of poverty in the whole year was overfulfilled

　　2016 is the first year of China’s poverty alleviation. Over the past year, the strategy of precision poverty alleviation and precision poverty alleviation has taken root, and the key tasks of poverty alleviation have progressed smoothly, and poverty alleviation and development work has presented a new situation. On December 20th, Liu Yongfu, director of the State Council Poverty Alleviation Office, said at the National Poverty Alleviation and Development Work Conference: "The first battle to get rid of poverty was successful and made a good start. It is estimated that the task of reducing the rural poor population by more than 10 million in the whole year can be overfulfilled."

　　Comments:In the first year, the task of poverty alleviation was overfulfilled, which not only greatly inspired the morale of the poverty alleviation team, but also accumulated valuable experience for all rural poor people to get rid of poverty and all poverty-stricken counties to take off their hats under the current standards in 2020. The achievement of reducing poverty by 10 million people is the "power of the wild" made by the whole country in the first year of poverty alleviation.

　　6 million sets of shed reform tasks completed.

　　In 2016, the country plans to start the renovation of 6 million shanty towns. According to the data of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, 5.99 million sets have been started from January to October, accounting for 99.7% of the annual target tasks, with an investment of 1.38 trillion yuan. In the first half of this year, 3,659,800 sets of urban guaranteed housing projects were basically completed, accounting for 97.7% of the annual target. According to the data of the first half of this year, the construction of affordable housing projects is progressing smoothly, especially the number of sets basically completed in the first half of this year is close to the annual target.

　　Comments:This year’s "Government Work Report" proposes that the housing security system will be improved during the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, and 20 million sets of housing in urban shanty towns will be renovated. In recent years, China’s housing security has made great progress, the policy system and organizational implementation mechanism have been improved day by day, and more and more families with housing difficulties have been able to realize their dream of living in peace.

　　The nationwide networking of medical insurance is basically realized.

　　The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Ministry of Finance recently issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Direct Settlement of Hospitalization Medical Expenses of Basic Medical Insurance in Different Provinces", clarifying that the nationwide networking will be basically realized by the end of this year, and the direct settlement of hospitalization medical expenses for retirees in different provinces will be initiated; In 2017, it began to gradually solve the direct settlement of hospitalization medical expenses for retirees resettled in different places across provinces, and at the end of the year, it was extended to the direct settlement of hospitalization medical expenses for people who met the referral requirements.

　　Comments:You Jun, deputy director of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, said that the launch of the national settlement system for medical treatment in different places indicates that the direct settlement of medical treatment in different provinces has been officially transferred from the stage of policy formulation and system development to the new stage of implementing the policy and system docking and handling trial operation.

　　Retirees’ pensions have steadily increased.

　　In April this year, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Ministry of Finance issued the Notice on Adjusting the Basic Pension for Retirees in 2016. From January 1, 2016, retirees from enterprises, institutions and institutions who have gone through retirement procedures according to regulations and received basic pensions on a monthly basis will raise the basic pension level, and the overall adjustment level will be about 6.5% of the monthly basic pension for retirees in 2015. According to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, all the basic pensions for retirees adjusted this year have been put in place, and the pension benefits for retirees from more than 100 million enterprises, institutions and institutions across the country have been improved. In some areas, the basic pension standards for urban and rural residents’ old-age insurance have also been raised.

　　Comments:This adjustment is the first time since the reform of the endowment insurance system of government agencies and institutions on October 1, 2014 to adjust the treatment according to the basic pension adjustment method. It is also the first time that retirees of enterprises and government agencies and institutions adjust the treatment simultaneously, taking the first step of coordinating the treatment adjustment of all kinds of retirees, which is a direct embodiment of the integration of the endowment insurance systems of enterprises and government agencies and institutions and enhancing fairness.

　　Many banks no longer charge fees.

　　In February this year, five major banks, namely Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of China, China Construction Bank and Bank of Communications, jointly announced that the domestic RMB transfer and remittance handled by customers through mobile banking will be exempted from handling fees, regardless of inter-bank travel in different places, and the domestic RMB online bank transfer and remittance for customers below 5,000 yuan will be exempted from handling fees. In September this year, the central bank issued the Notice on Strengthening the Management of Payment and Settlement to Prevent New Crimes in Telecommunication Networks, which requires that the same person can only open one settlement account in the same bank from December, and the same bank will not charge a handling fee for accessing cash and transferring money in different places.

　　Comments:The downward adjustment of the bank card processing fee will directly reduce the operating costs of merchants, and merchants in catering and other industries will benefit greatly. However, the stipulation that the single charge of credit card is "not capped" may affect large consumption such as car purchase.

　　New rules for network car are introduced.

　　In July this year, the Ministry of Communications, together with the Ministry of Public Security and other seven departments, promulgated the Guiding Opinions on Deepening Reform and Promoting the Healthy Development of the Taxi Industry and the Interim Measures for the Administration of Online Booking of Taxi Operating Services. The first network car supervision regulation at the national level was introduced. In view of the concern of private cars participating in the network car operation, the new regulations clarify that private cars can be converted into network car operation if they meet the conditions. The new regulations give the network car a legal status and register the network car as an "appointment for taxi passenger transport".

　　Comments:With the announcement of the reform plan of taxis and online car-sharing, China’s "online car-sharing" was officially legalized. Chen Yanyan, deputy dean of the School of Transportation, Beijing University of Technology, said that the introduction of the new policy of "network car-sharing" embodies the idea of "people-oriented". Both network car-sharing and taxis are supplements to urban public transportation and components of urban comprehensive transportation system, and both need overall management and development by the government.

　　Three major operators will cancel long-distance roaming charges

　　From October 1st, China Unicom further canceled the roaming fee for the unified package of the Group. China Mobile and China Telecom also said that they expect to cancel the long-distance roaming charges by the end of this year, and the three major operators have set a timetable for canceling the long-distance roaming charges.

　　Comments:The horn of "speeding up and reducing fees" has been blowing for many years. As a "fee reduction", the long-distance roaming fee has finally ushered in the spring of reform. (China Economic Net reporter Liang Jingxue)