In 2025, Beijing will implement a package of practical things for people's livelihood to make the people's sense of gain stronger. Now, Mr. Zhao Daguo (pseudonym), who is born and raised in Beijing, is catching up with this wave of livelihood projects.

"Follow the times"

Zhao Daguo worked in a state-owned enterprise in Daxing District when he was young, and worked diligently for most of his life. Now he is at the age of retirement, and his monthly pension is the guarantee of his life in his later years.

In the past, whenever it was time to receive pensions, Zhao Daguo would get up early, eat the breakfast prepared by his wife, and ride the old bicycle to the bank several miles away, and line up at the bank gate with the old man and the old ladies around.

Zhao Daguo has almost never used mobile phones or bank cards to pay for consumption. Every time he goes to the bank, Zhao Daguo will withdraw some of his pension. With money in his pocket, he felt more secure in life.

With the promotion of Beijing's third-generation social security card, Zhao Daguo's life has quietly changed. A neighbor of a community told him not long ago that Beijing has begun to replace the third-generation social security card in batches. The third-generation social security card not only includes basic functions such as identity certificates, information records, medical treatment and medicine purchase of the original social security card, but also adds functions such as urban transportation, annual park tickets, benefits distribution, cultural experience, and financial services. In the future, one-card service will be handled, "I no longer need to operate frequently, I will queule back and forth in the bank!" But Zhao Daguo thought again, he was at his age and was always a little resistant to new things, and was afraid that he would not be able to learn those complicated operations. While he was hesitating, the community organized a training session on the third-generation social security card. Zhao Daguo took his reading glasses and sat in the venue early. A young training teacher patiently explained the functions and usage methods of the new social security card, and also demonstrated on-site how to check balances and receive pensions on the self-service machine through the social security card.

When he got home, Zhao Daguo was still thinking about this. He told his wife: "This new social security card is very good, but we have used the passbook for life. We rely on it to save money, withdraw money, and spend money. We are used to it. It is okay to use it to get pensions, but it is still not used to it."