Page 25 - REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 2022 PLAN FOR NATIONAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EVELOPMENT AND ON THE 2023 DRAFT PLAN FOR NATIONAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EVELOPMENT

We implemented a series of policies and measures aimed at supporting
enterprises by lightening their burdens and helping them keep their payrolls stable

and employ more people, including significantly raising the rate of unemployment
insurance premium refunds and increasing subsidies for retaining and creating
jobs, all of which alleviated enterprises of financial burdens amounting to 496.1
billion yuan in 2022.
We organized the 2022 National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Week and

carried out demonstration initiatives for boosting job creation through
entrepreneurship. We encouraged local governments to provide greater support
for startup platforms such as incubator parks for people who return or move to the
countryside to start businesses and business incubation centers, and we

implemented policies to support startups by offering guaranteed loans and rental
assistance. We boosted employment and encouraged entrepreneurship among key
groups such as college graduates, ex-service members, and rural migrant workers,
launched employment promotion campaigns for unemployed college graduates,
and gave more support to rural migrant workers to find jobs and start their own

businesses.
To improve and upgrade public employment services, we supported localities
in establishing a batch of public training bases. We promoted orderly progress in
building Zhejiang into a demonstration zone for realizing common prosperity

through high-quality development. Reform of the income distribution system was
deepened, and the personal incomes of both urban and rural residents grew
steadily, with per capita disposable income nationwide increasing by 2.9% in real
terms.
2) New progress was made in promoting fairness in education and improving the

quality of education.
Carrying on with the project to strengthen education, we promoted quality and
balanced development of compulsory education in all counties and launched an
initiative to improve education in preschools and regular senior secondary schools.

With these efforts, weaknesses in preschool education were shored up, the
retention rate in nine-year compulsory education and the gross enrollment ratio for
senior secondary education reached 95.5% and 91.6% respectively, and regular
institutions of higher learning enrolled more than 11.3 million undergraduate and
graduate students. Regulation of off-campus tutoring was strengthened. Physical

education and education in the arts and labor were comprehensively improved at

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