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We should expand and improve higher education and increase
enrollment in quality undergraduate programs. We should enhance the

training capacities of vocational schools and develop vocational colleges with
distinctive features. We should guide and regulate the development of private
education and expand high-standard opening up in the education sector.

We should promote the educators’ ethos, cultivate high-caliber teachers,
and ensure better pay and benefits for teachers. We should improve the
school-family-society collaboration mechanism in education, advance the

digital transformation strategy for education, and optimize public services in
support of lifelong learning.
40. Improving the social security system

We should improve and implement the unified national management
system for basic old-age insurance funds, move faster to develop the
multi-tiered, multi-pillar old-age insurance system, and improve the

mechanisms for setting and adjusting benefits. Basic old-age insurance
benefits for rural and non-working urban residents should be gradually
increased. We should improve the multi-tiered medical security system,

advance unified management of basic medical insurance funds at the
provincial level, and improve the policies on centralized medicine
procurement, medical insurance payment, and the use of surplus funds. We

should expand the coverage of unemployment insurance and workers’
compensation schemes and build sound systems for occupational injury
insurance. We should improve the policies for transferring social security

accounts and work for wider social security coverage among rural migrant
workers as well as people in flexible employment and new forms of
employment.

We should improve the social insurance actuarial system, continue to
transfer a portion of state capital to replenish social security funds, and
improve the mechanisms for guaranteeing long-term, sustainable

contributions to social security funds, conducting overall management and
regulation of funds, maintaining and increasing their value, and ensuring
their safety. Commercial insurance schemes should be leveraged as a

supplementary support. We should improve the unified national platform for
social insurance public services and the management of and services by
insurance agencies nationwide.
We should refine the social assistance system, improve the service and

support system for elderly people who live alone, children in need, and

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