CCTV News (News Network): The 2025 National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference is about to be held, and the "News Network" launched a series of reports on February 17, "Stories of Representatives and Deputies' Performance of Duties". First of all, let’s meet Zhuo Changli, a National People’s Congress representative who has been engaged in the housekeeping service industry in Shandong for more than 20 years and has been paying attention to the “old and young” issue many times.

Just just after the Spring Festival holiday, Zhuo Changli came to visit the home of Wang Miaomiao, a second-child mother in Jinan to learn about the housekeeping service situation. Wang Miaomiao and her husband are both office workers. The eldest son has just entered elementary school and the younger son is just over one year old. For their family, it is necessary to find a domestic service staff with rich experience and comprehensive skills.

Zhuo Changli found during a visit that the "worry" that Wang Miaomiao mentioned is not an isolated case. In 2024, the permanent population of Shandong Province is nearly 101 million, of which about 11.18 million people over 70 years old and nearly 2 million infants aged 0-3. It is common for families with "one elderly and one young" care needs. According to data released in 2024, the gap in the national government service industry practitioners in my country exceeds 20 million. To this end, Zhuo Changli put forward the "Suggestions on Strengthening the Role of the Industry and Promoting the High-Quality Development of Industry-Education Integration in the Housekeeping Field" at the 2024 National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Not long after, the Ministry of Education responded to Zhuo Changli, saying that it would promote the integration of industry and education, school-enterprise coordination, and further improve the training mechanism for professional housekeeping service personnel. Shandong Province has also accelerated the implementation of relevant policies, supported domestic enterprises and vocational colleges to jointly build secondary colleges, majors, training bases, training bases, etc., widely implement modern apprenticeship and order-based training, and jointly cultivate high-skilled talents in schools and enterprises. In 2024, these policies in Shandong Province benefited more than 200,000 domestic service personnel and students in school, and also effectively promoted them to better serve the "old and young" families.

At this year's National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Zhuo Changli will continue to pay attention to the supply and guarantee of "one elderly and one young" services. The suggestions she brought involve rural workers' training, consumption subsidies for infants and young children aged 0-3 and over 70 years old.