On June 5, an exciting news came out from the Tongling Municipal Livelihood Project Implementation Conference: On the basis of the twelve livelihood projects uniformly determined by the provincial government, Tongling City added "schistosomiasis control" "Infectious Disease Source" and other eight people's livelihood projects, and the number of people's livelihood projects reached 20, involving more than 270 million yuan in funds.
In recent years, Tongling City’s economy has achieved considerable development. How to make the results of economic development benefit all citizens? "Every year, a people's livelihood issue must be included in the 'Government's Practical Projects for the People', and 60%-80% of the new financial resources every year are used to solve people's livelihood issues. People's livelihood projects are related to the vital interests of the people. To do good things well, it takes a government It will be held in the next term.” The determination of Tongling City leaders is clear.
Building a network: Continuously improving the social security system
In June 2005, city leaders encountered a difficult problem when they opened the door for a visit. A girl who is in her third year of high school suffers from uremia and asks the government for help. Because they are neither eligible for subsistence allowances nor eligible for medical insurance, they do not fall within the scope of policy assistance. City leaders had no choice but to instruct relevant departments to provide certain relief through other channels.
How many people like the sick girl are neither eligible for subsistence allowance nor able to participate in medical insurance? This affects the hearts of all leaders in Tongling City. At the end of last year, the city conducted in-depth research and found that there were as many as 120,000 non-employee residents in towns like the city. Soon, the "Tongling Urban Non-employee Resident Medical Insurance System" surfaced. Cheers came from the hearts of more than 120,000 urban non-employee residents in the city, because starting from January 1 this year, they began to enjoy critical illness medical insurance.
In fact, in recent years, Tongling City has actively explored and promoted the construction of urban and rural social security systems, strived to improve citizens' living conditions, and set many records in the province and even the country. In 2005, the city realized the new rural cooperative medical system covering the entire city, and took the lead in the province to achieve coordinated coverage of serious medical care in urban and rural areas. People in need in urban and rural areas suffering from 13 types of diseases such as cancer and critical mental illness can receive an annual per capita benefit of 4,000-12,000 yuan. funding. Before the end of 2005, the city's rural areas established a minimum living security system, achieving full coverage of the city's urban and rural subsistence allowances. The per capita monthly subsistence allowance for urban subsistence allowances is 106 yuan, and the per capita monthly subsistence allowance for rural areas is 40 yuan. The amount of subsistence allowance is the highest in the province. At the same time, we are the first in the province to implement the "agricultural-to-non-agricultural conversion" process for landless farmers and rural subsistence allowance households, and bring them into the urban social security system; we are also the first to implement subsidies for the pension insurance for laid-off and unemployed people with various flexible employment.
Allowing all citizens to enjoy basic social security is not only a social welfare product that the government should provide, but also an important part of building a harmonious society. Tongling City has truly established a comprehensive, multi-level, and wide-covering social security system based on different groups and situations, starting from solving the most pressing difficulties of the masses, and successfully built a social "safety net."
Wide a road: strive to open up a green channel for employment
Tongling is a typical resource-based industrial and mining city. As some mining resources are increasingly exhausted and the reform of state-owned enterprises is fully promoted, a number of state-owned enterprises have Enterprise employees are laid off and unemployed, and the contradiction between employment and re-employment is very prominent.
“Employment is the foundation of people’s livelihood.” Shen Suli, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, said at the city’s employment and reemployment work conference: “If the Party committee and the government do not pay attention to employment, they are not doing their jobs properly!” According to “Let people with employability be able to With the goal of "employment", the city has put forward the policy of "workers choosing their own jobs, the market regulating employment, and the government promoting employment", adhering to a multi-pronged approach, actively opening up green channels for employment, and broadening people's livelihood through multiple channels.
Based on the characteristics of the industrial structure, Tongling City regards the development of three labor-intensive industries with comparative advantages, namely textiles and clothing, electronic components, and copper handicraft processing, as a breakthrough to increase employment opportunities. Since 2001, the municipal finance has allocated 2 million yuan of guiding funds every year to support the development of labor-intensive enterprises. There are now 92 such enterprises in the city, creating 10,000 new jobs, of which nearly 4,000 laid-off workers have been re-employed. The city also gave full play to the role of organized employment, established 9 re-employment parks (streets), established 119 various employment organizations, and resettled 1,038 laid-off and unemployed people.
On the other hand, Tongling City actively improves the labor security service system. The city has established 12 sub-district labor and security offices and 56 community labor and security workstations; built a new municipal labor market, with a total of free job introductions for 21,400 laid-off and unemployed people; comprehensive free employment training has been provided, with a total of more than 25,000 laid-off and unemployed people trained; For three consecutive years, the city has carried out a special campaign of "100 Days of Employment Assistance". Currently, 1,410 people have secured positions through employment assistance.
Through unremitting efforts, the road to employment and re-employment in Tongling City is getting wider and wider: in the past three years, a total of 36,086 new people have been re-employed, 21,862 laid-off and unemployed people have been re-employed, and 13,171 new rural labor services have been exported. The registered urban unemployment rate is controlled within 4.3%.
Install a gate: Actively build a social assistance system
So that everyone in need can get help, so that everyone in need of care can receive care. This is an important pursuit of paying attention to people's livelihood and building a harmonious society. In the past few years, Tongling City has actively explored the establishment of a new social assistance system in urban and rural areas, and installed a pressure-reducing gate valve to alleviate the living pressure of people in need.
“Enable all the children of urban and rural low-income families in the city in the compulsory education stage to go to school with only an empty schoolbag.” This dream has become a reality in Tongling City. In order to effectively solve the problem of difficult and expensive education for the masses, the city has formulated and issued a number of regulations to implement rural education assistance, which is half a year ahead of the national policy requirements.
The phenomenon of poor people having no money to build or buy a house is common in various cities. "Only by living in peace can we work and work happily." In 2004, Tongling City issued the "Trial Measures for the Management of Urban Low-rent Housing", which adopted methods such as physical rent allocation, rent subsidies, and rent reductions for urban low-rent households to alleviate their housing difficulties. At the same time, the construction of affordable housing and demolition resettlement housing was intensified, and 960,000 square meters of newly built affordable housing was built, allowing more than 10,000 urban low- and middle-income households to live in new homes.
At the same time, the city has improved the legal aid system and opened the "148" 24-hour legal service hotline to provide free legal services to poor urban and rural families who meet the conditions for legal aid; resolutely clean up and cancel all kinds of legal aid targeting farmers. discriminatory regulations and unreasonable restrictions on migrant workers, and respect and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of migrant workers. During the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period, a total of 18 million yuan in arrears of wages to migrant workers was paid off, with a repayment rate of 100%. They also fully implemented the proportional employment arrangement for disabled people, implemented the "renovation of dilapidated houses" and "housing assistance for the disabled" projects, and solved the housing problem of 194 households with disabled people.