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social assistance services in diverse forms. Trials for long-term care insurance will
be expanded, and relevant policies will be unified. Sound mechanisms will be put

in place for supporting orphans and children without caretakers. We will improve
care and services for people in need. We will improve the system whereby social
security funds are kept safe through supervision and their value is maintained and
increased over time.
5) We will ensure adequate supply and stable prices for daily necessities.
We will better regulate hog production and pork stockpiling and ensure the

ample supply and stable prices of grain, cooking oil, and other essential
commodities such as meat, eggs, and vegetables. We will start building storage
facility centers in suburban areas to raise local capacity of emergency supply for
urban residents’ daily needs. Surveys on the costs of agricultural products, coal,

and other major commodities will be carried out to support efforts to ensure
adequate supply and stable prices. We will implement the mechanism tying
adjustments in social assistance and benefit payments to price rises and ensure that
subsidies are paid on time and in full. We will intensify pricing oversight and crack
down on speculative hoarding, price gouging, and other illegal activities.
6) We will refine the public services system.

We will issue a new edition of the national standards for basic public services
and carry out monitoring and assessment of equitable access to basic public
services. We will continue to shore up weak links and improve standards in
consumer services, and we will adopt policies and measures to build cities that
offer high quality of life. We will strengthen public services in rural areas and

improve the systems for providing basic public services to people in places where
they permanently reside. We will pursue a proactive national strategy in response
to population aging, develop elderly care programs and industries, and expand the
supply of public-benefit elderly care services. We will build a system for providing
elderly care services at home, through communities, and by institutions to meet

diversified medical and health care needs; improve health services and
management for the elderly; and work on policies to support the silver economy.
We will advance the implementation of supporting measures for boosting the birth
rate, develop the public-benefit childcare service system, bring down the costs of
pregnancy, childbirth, child rearing, and schooling, and promote balanced

long-term population development. We will continue to improve the service
system for elderly care and childcare by increasing the supply of these services.
The second group of child-friendly cities will be built in an orderly manner.

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