CCTV News (News Network): General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that we should improve the social security system and enhance the balance and accessibility of basic public services, especially to pay attention to the most basic people's livelihood. At present, my country is strengthening employment priority policies to promote high-quality and full employment; steadily improving the level of public services and social security, and effectively improving the welfare of the people.

This spring, a series of special service activities to promote employment were launched nationwide.

The just-concluded Spring Breeze Action in 2025 has held 56,000 recruitment activities in three months and released 37 million jobs. In the past few days, a special spring recruitment activity focused on college graduates has been held in large and medium-sized cities.

The monitoring of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security shows that since the beginning of this year, enterprises have accelerated their resumption of production and the employment market has started well.

Employment is the foundation of people's livelihood, and social security is related to everyone's vital interests. These are all major events that General Secretary Xi Jinping is concerned about. During the inspections in various places, the General Secretary often went to factory workshops, visited the masses, had in-depth conversations with college graduates, couriers, and migrant workers, and carefully asked about everyone's income sources, employment and entrepreneurship, pension benefits, etc., and emphasized the need to adhere to the people-centered development philosophy and steadily improve the level of people's livelihood security in development.

This year's "Government Work Report" proposes for the first time "investment in people", requiring strengthening the orientation of macro policies and people's livelihood, promoting more funds and resources to serve people's livelihood, and making work arrangements around greater efforts to stabilize and expand employment and improve social security and service policies.

This year, the national social security and employment budget expenditure was arranged to be close to 4.5 trillion yuan, an increase of 5.9%. The central government has allocated 66.74 billion yuan of employment subsidies to support local governments in implementing employment and entrepreneurship support policies. At present, the balance of special loans for stabilizing and expanding jobs is more than 300 billion yuan, and the balance of entrepreneurial guarantee loans exceeds 270 billion yuan. Money, industry and employment policies are working together to make every effort to stabilize the total amount of employment, expand employment growth, and improve employment quality.

Collaborate the structural employment contradiction of "someone has no work to do, no one has no work to do", and invest within the central budget to support local governments in the construction of 414 public training bases. Coordinate the use of multi-channel financial resources to build 1,176 high-skilled talent training bases and 1,475 skilled master studios.

While actively promoting high-quality and full employment, my country has steadily promoted the reform of the social security system. This year, the country has steadily promoted the national coordination of basic pension insurance, continued to increase the pension benefits of more than 300 million retired employees and urban and rural residents, and launched the individual pension system from 36 pilot cities and regions to the whole country, building a multi-level and multi-pillar pension insurance system.

This year, many places have relaxed the restrictions on household registration for flexible employment personnel. The place of insured, the payment base, and the payment method can be freely chosen according to their actual conditions. The pilot project for occupational injury protection for new employment forms will increase from 7 provinces and cities to 17, covering tens of millions of practitioners, including couriers, takeaway riders, and online ride-hailing drivers.

This year, the country has accelerated the construction of the "one card" for social security card residents' services, opened more than 100 national services and more than 1,000 local services, and the Yangtze River Delta, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Sichuan and Chongqing regions have achieved cross-provincial handling of matters such as transportation, culture and tourism.

People-centered, unremittingly improve the more full, fairer and warmer social security system. More and more people are looking forward to being transformed into tangible happiness, and the achievements of Chinese-style modernization will benefit all people more.