CCTV News: Consumption is connected to people's livelihood and welfare on the one hand, and to economic development on the other. Recently, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Special Action Plan to Boost Consumption". In order to implement the national special action to boost consumption, Zhejiang subsequently issued the "Implementation Plan for Special Action to Vigorously Boost and Expand Consumption in Zhejiang Province", striving to increase the total retail sales of consumer goods by more than 5% in 2025. How to implement it specifically? Let’s take a look together.

The "Implementation Plan for Special Action to Vigorously Boost and Expand Consumption in Zhejiang Province" released this time focuses on seven aspects: increasing residents' income, reducing residents' burden, bulk consumption, service consumption, improving quality, optimizing the environment, and reducing restrictions, striving to increase the total retail sales of consumer goods in Zhejiang Province by more than 5% in 2025.

The "Plan" proposes that Zhejiang Province will improve the normal growth mechanism for workers' wages, achieve basically synchronized residents' disposable income and economic growth, and strive to create more than 1 million new urban jobs by 2025.

In terms of residents' burden reduction, the "Plan" focuses on issues such as heavy burden on key groups and "dare not to consume", and proposes four specific measures, including marriage and childbirth, excellent learning and education, medical insurance, and pension and assistance to the elderly. Among them, places with conditions are encouraged to issue marriage consumption coupons and childcare coupons, carry out basic public services for universal childcare, and free influenza vaccination for elderly people over 60 years old, and promoting the expansion of the "Love Card" for elderly care services have become the highlights of the plan.

Another highlight in the "Plan" is to expand bulk consumption actions. Zhejiang will focus on stabilizing the basic basic consumption of automobiles and housing, and propose four specific measures, including housing consumption, automobile consumption, old-for-new, and equipment renewal, and implement policies such as "good house" pilot and support for automobile replacement and renewal. The replacement of home appliances will be expanded from 8 categories to 12 categories. In addition, the "Plan" also proposes a number of measures to expand consumption, such as promoting service consumption actions, improving consumption quality actions, and optimizing consumption environment actions. Increase the efforts to pay leave and encourage staggered leave and flexible work and rest.

Many provinces across the country are exploring the implementation of the birth subsidy system

In the "Special Action Plan to Boost Consumption", the consumption capacity guarantee support action is one of the seven major actions proposed in this "Plan". Among them, the first thing to rank is to "increase the efforts to ensure fertility and nurturing and study the establishment of a childcare subsidy system."

Data from the National Health Commission as of October last year, 23 provinces across the country have begun to explore and implement the childcare subsidy system at different levels. Experts said that parenting is indeed an important concern in the field of people's livelihood. Localities should adapt to local conditions and provide targeted childcare subsidies based on local consumption habits, regional differences, and family structure. Rural personnel should be covered in parenting insurance, the standards and coverage of insurance should be raised, and the gap between urban and rural parenting insurance should be narrowed.

Hohhot, Inner Mongolia has issued a step-by-step subsidy policy "real money" to promote childbirth

Recently, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia has issued implementation rules and service procedures for childcare subsidy projects. Starting this month, Hohhot will issue a one-time parenting subsidy of 10,000 yuan to qualified families with one child; a child-raising subsidy of 50,000 yuan will be issued for a second child, and a child-raising subsidy of 10,000 yuan will be issued for a child of 5 years old; a child-raising subsidy of 10,000 yuan will be issued for a child of 3 or above, and a child-raising subsidy of 10,000 yuan will be issued for a child of 10 years old.

It is understood that Hohhot City will conduct two rounds of centralized review in May and November each year. Families with two children and three children only need to submit annual review materials during the following year's review period to continue the subsidy. The approved subsidies will be distributed in batches in January and July each year.

According to data from the Hohhot Municipal Bureau of Statistics, in 2023, the permanent population of Hohhot was 3.6041 million, ranking first in the entire Inner Mongolia region, but the population growth rate was -0.76‰.