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the recruitment, cultivation, and placement of talent, strengthen the development
of basic disciplines and urgently needed disciplines, make the best use of talent of

all types to fully harness their potential, and improve our ability to nurture talent
at home.
 Carrying out social policies to meet basic living needs
We will continue to implement the employment-first strategy and ensure
effective and thorough implementation of related policies. We will support the

development of industries and enterprises that create lots of employment
opportunities, give greater prominence to creating jobs for young people,
especially college graduates, and promote employment for people who have
recently escaped poverty. We will better protect the rights and interests of workers.

Prompt action will be taken to help people in financial difficulty cope with
structural price rises. We will improve the social security system, establish a more
effective social safety net, and work steadily toward national unified management
of basic old-age insurance funds. We will ensure that high-quality medical
resources become more broadly available, are channeled more to lower levels, and

are distributed in a more balanced manner among regions, so that rural areas and
less-developed areas will have better access to them. We will improve our policy
system for boosting the birth rate, develop elderly care programs and services, and
properly respond to population aging and declining fertility.

In 2023, we will encounter quite a few difficulties and challenges in economic
development. This will require us to take a holistic approach and coordinate our
efforts on all fronts when implementing macro policies. We need to ensure our
policies meet the needs of market entities, improve the way policies are
implemented to make them more responsive and targeted, and align them with the

macro policies of 2022. We will make plans early on and formulate and launch
policies as early as possible. We will strengthen coordination and collaboration
between plans and policies and conduct midterm assessments of the
implementation of the 14th Five-Year Plan. We will promote synergy between

fiscal, monetary, employment, industrial, investment, consumption, price,
environmental, and regional policies and pool resources and efforts in order to
accomplish major, difficult, and urgent tasks. We will improve economic
monitoring, forecasting, and early warning, strengthen preparatory research to
maintain policy options for different eventualities, enrich our policy tool kit, and

prepare ourselves for more complicated and difficult situations. We will better

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