Abstract: The Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held in November 2013 was a very important meeting in the history of our party that created a new situation for reform and opening up. It sounded the clarion call for comprehensively deepening reforms in the new era and put forward a A series of major measures to comprehensively deepen reforms. Over the past five years, my country has made great progress in reforms in the field of people's livelihood, the social governance system has been improved, the overall social situation has remained stable, national security has been comprehensively strengthened, and social construction has reached a new level. In the great practice of comprehensively deepening reforms initiated by the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, my country's social construction has accumulated valuable experience and explored effective paths. We must always put the interests of the people above all else, identify the focus of social construction in the new era, and create a new situation in social construction in the new era with the spirit of seizing the day and seizing the day.

Comrade Xi Jinping pointed out: “To seek happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation is the original intention and mission of the Chinese Communists, as well as the original intention and mission of reform and opening up.” The Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held in November 2013, It sounded the clarion call for comprehensively deepening reform in the new era and proposed a series of major measures to comprehensively deepen reform and promote social construction in the new era to a new level. For more than five years, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has always regarded the people's yearning for a better life as its goal. It has not forgotten its original intention and kept its mission in mind, persisted in ensuring and improving people's livelihood in the process of development, and strived to solve the urgent needs and expectations of the people. , let the results of reform and development benefit all people more and more equitably, make the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security more substantial, more secure, and more sustainable, and continue to move towards realizing common prosperity for all people.

New achievements in social construction in the new era

Social construction is an important part of the "five-in-one" overall layout of socialism with Chinese characteristics, covering important areas of people's livelihood such as education, employment, income distribution, social security, poverty alleviation, medical health, and social governance. Since the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, my country has made great progress in reforms in the field of people's livelihood, and the social governance system has become more perfect. The overall situation remains stable, national security is comprehensively strengthened, and social construction has reached a new level.

People's living standards continue to improve, and the middle-income group gradually expands. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the average annual growth rate of per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents has not only far exceeded the price growth rate, but also exceeded the average annual growth rate of per capita GDP. The era of active mass consumption has begun. In 2017, the Engel coefficient of household consumption in my country (the proportion of food expenditure in total consumption expenditure) has dropped to less than 30%, and emerging consumption such as communications, education, tourism, leisure, and fitness are developing rapidly. The income gap in our country is generally gradually narrowing, and the total size of the middle-income group has reached more than 300 million, forming the largest middle-income group in the world.

People live and work in peace and contentment, and employment has been stable during the period of shifting economic growth. In recent years, our country has been in a period of shifting economic growth and transforming development methods, optimizing economic structure, and transforming growth momentum. The tasks of youth employment, mainly college students, rural labor transfer employment, and employment placement in overcapacity industries have been arduous. At the same time, Profound changes in the international economic and trade situation have had an adverse impact on employment. Under this circumstance, our country has adopted a series of more effective policies to promote employment, and the employment situation has generally remained stable. From 2013 to 2017, my country created more than 13 million new urban jobs every year, and the surveyed urban unemployment rate was controlled at a historically low level of around 5%. In 2017, the total number of migrant workers exceeded 286 million. Such achievements in employment work have laid a solid foundation for the harmony and stability of the entire society.

Targeted poverty alleviation has achieved remarkable results, and all rural poor people will be lifted out of poverty under current standards. Since the reform and opening up, my country's rural poor population has reduced by 740 million, achieving world-renowned poverty reduction achievements and making outstanding contributions to the cause of international poverty reduction. In November 2013, Comrade Xi Jinping put forward the concept of "targeted poverty alleviation" for the first time during his inspection work in Hunan. Over the past five years, the central government has vigorously implemented targeted poverty alleviation and targeted poverty alleviation, creating a new situation in poverty alleviation and development. From 2013 to 2017, my country's rural poverty population decreased by more than 68 million. In 2018, another 125 impoverished counties across the country were lifted out of poverty, and 10 million rural poor people were lifted out of poverty. By 2020, we will lift all rural poor people out of poverty under current standards and eliminate absolute poverty. This is a great poverty reduction project rarely seen in the world and will profoundly change the face of my country's rural poverty-stricken areas.

Education has developed rapidly and the quality of the labor force has improved significantly. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, in order to adapt to the needs of economic transformation and upgrading, our party has placed priority on the development of education in a more important position, used legal forms to ensure that national fiscal education expenditures reached 4% of GDP in that year, and at the same time adopted various measures Popularize and expand education at all levels, improve the quality of the population, and create new demographic dividends. At present, the average number of years of education for my country's working-age population has reached 10.5 years, and the proportion of newly added labor force who have received higher education exceeds 45%. The average number of years of education has reached more than 13.5 years, which is higher than the world average. The rapid development of education has laid a solid foundation for building our country into a talent powerhouse.

The world's most ambitious social security system has been built, and people's health has generally improved. Our country has built the world's largest social security system covering the largest population, driving the world's social security coverage rate to increase by 11 percentage points. As of June 2018, the number of people insured by basic pension insurance, unemployment insurance, and work-related injury insurance reached 925 million, 191 million, and 230 million respectively, and basic medical insurance covered a population of more than 1.3 billion; the number of social security card holders reached 1.15 billion, covering the entire country. 82.81% of the population. People's health level continues to improve, and the average life expectancy reaches 76.7 years.

The people's various needs for a better life are met, and the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security continue to increase. Deeply advance the fight against corruption, win the battle to defend blue skies, fight targeted poverty alleviation, prevent and control major risks, resolutely curb the rise in housing prices, accelerate the renovation of shantytowns, implement the strictest food and drug safety supervision, and launch a special campaign to crack down on gangs and evil... this A series of step-by-step, well-planned, and focused major measures have won people's hearts, built consensus, and stabilized expectations.

Exploring new paths for social construction in the new era

Comrade Xi Jinping pointed out: “Leading the people to create a better life is our party’s unswerving goal. The interests of the people must always be placed supreme, so that the results of reform and development can benefit all people more and more equitably, and work towards realizing the common goal of all people. Prosperity continues to move forward. "Under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and in the great practice of comprehensively deepening reforms since the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, we have grasped the most direct and practical interests of the people and have done our best. And we do it within our capabilities, doing one thing after another, year after year, making up for shortcomings in the field of people's livelihood, narrowing the gap between urban and rural regional development and income distribution, winning the battle against poverty, strengthening and innovating Actively explore effective paths in social governance and other aspects.

Prioritize the development of education and place it in a more important position. Education is an important way to promote social mobility, block the intergenerational transmission of poverty and prevent the solidification of social classes. Over the past five years, we have further promoted the integrated development of urban and rural compulsory education, attached great importance to rural compulsory education, improved the student financial aid system, and strived to enable the vast majority of new urban and rural labor force to receive high school education and more to receive higher education. To adapt to the reality that urban and rural families have an increasing demand for early childhood education and preschool education for their children, we strive to provide every school-age child with fair and high-quality preschool education. Improve the vocational education and training system and deepen the integration of industry and education. Accelerate the construction of world-class universities and first-class disciplines and promote the connotative development of higher education.

Implement a more active employment policy. Employment is the foundation of people's livelihood and affects the lives of thousands of households. Over the past five years, in order to adapt to the profound changes in my country's labor supply and demand relationship, we have adhered to the employment priority strategy and active employment policy, and strived to achieve higher quality and fuller employment. Carry out vocational skills training on a large scale to generally improve the quality of workers and create new demographic dividends. Focus on solving structural employment conflicts, promote the employment of young people, mainly college graduates, promote multi-channel employment and entrepreneurship for migrant workers, and properly resettle workers in enterprises that are reducing overcapacity. Improve the consultation and coordination mechanism involving the government, trade unions, and enterprises to build harmonious labor relations.

Continue to optimize the income distribution structure. Income distribution is the most important and direct way to improve people's livelihood and achieve development results shared by the people. Over the past five years, we have persisted in achieving synchronous growth in residents' income as the economy grows, and in achieving simultaneous increases in labor remuneration as labor productivity increases. We adhere to the principle of distribution according to work, improve the system and mechanism of distribution according to factors, and promote a more reasonable and balanced income distribution. More orderly. Encourage hard-working and law-abiding people to get rich, and expand the middle-income group. Deepen rural reform, broaden the channels for farmers’ labor income and property income, strive to make farmers generally wealthy, and jointly build and share a moderately prosperous society in all respects.

Comprehensively build a multi-level social security system covering the entire population. Social security is a safety net for people's livelihood and a stabilizer of society, and is closely related to people's happiness and well-being. Over the past five years, we have vigorously implemented the universal insurance plan. In accordance with the requirements of setting the bottom line, weaving a dense network, and building mechanisms, we have improved the basic pension insurance system for urban employees and the basic pension insurance system for urban and rural residents, and improved the unified basic medical insurance system for urban and rural residents and Critical illness insurance system, coordinate the urban and rural social assistance system, improve the minimum living security system, improve social assistance, social welfare, charity, preferential care and resettlement systems, accelerate the establishment of a housing system with multi-subject supply, multi-channel security, and both rental and purchase, and comprehensively build A multi-level social security system that covers the entire population, coordinates urban and rural areas, has clear rights and responsibilities, provides appropriate protection, and is sustainable.

Adhere to targeted poverty alleviation and targeted poverty alleviation. Eliminating poverty, improving people's livelihood, and gradually realizing common prosperity are the essential requirements of socialism and an important mission of our party. For more than five years, we have persisted in targeted poverty alleviation and targeted poverty alleviation, and strived to achieve real poverty alleviation and real poverty alleviation. Target poverty alleviation with targeted assistance to the special poor population, further focus on deeply impoverished areas, combine poverty alleviation with alleviation of will and intelligence, stimulate the endogenous motivation of the poor to get rid of poverty, consolidate the results of poverty alleviation, improve the quality of poverty alleviation, and resolutely win the fight against poverty Fight hard.

Implement the Healthy China strategy. Without universal health, there will be no comprehensive moderate prosperity. Over the past five years, we have placed the protection of people's health rights and interests in a more important position and actively promoted the construction of a healthy China. Promote the comprehensive establishment of a basic medical and health system, a medical security system and a high-quality and efficient medical and health service system with Chinese characteristics, deepen the reform of the medical and health system, and improve the modern hospital management system and drug supply guarantee system. Promote healthy and civilized lifestyles, prevent and control major diseases, and implement food safety strategies. Actively respond to the aging of the population and accelerate the development of aging causes and industries.