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on september 23, the state council information office held a series of press conferences on "promoting high-quality development" and invited relevant officials from the ministry of civil affairs to attend and answer reporters' questions.

at the meeting, minister of civil affairs lu zhiyuan said that civil affairs work is related to people's livelihood and connected to people's hearts. in recent years, civil affairs departments at all levels have focused on better fulfilling their responsibilities such as basic livelihood security, grassroots social governance and basic social services, and have made protecting the basic rights and interests of civil affairs service recipients, especially the vast number of special and difficult groups, a top priority, taking the concerns of the masses as a "barometer" and the satisfaction of the masses as a "measure", focusing on ensuring the basics, guaranteeing the bottom line, preventing risks, and promoting development, and promoting new progress and new results in various civil affairs work.

▲ minister of civil affairs lu zhiyuan, according to china.com

lu zhiyuan introduced that in order to strengthen basic livelihood security and effectively guarantee the basic living of all kinds of people in need, a stratified and classified social assistance system has been established, and big data and other means have been used to strengthen dynamic monitoring of low-income populations, and to provide timely early warning and relief assistance.

according to reports, the ministry of civil affairs has included migrant children in the scope of national care and protection, and provided rights protection, daily care, care and assistance services for migrant children in urban areas and left-behind children in rural areas, and provided a package of protection services such as raising, educating, medical rehabilitation, etc. for orphans and children without support. in addition, a living subsidy system for disabled people in difficulty and a nursing subsidy system for severely disabled people have been established to provide timely assistance to people in temporary difficulties and build a solid safety net for people in difficulty.

in terms of developing basic social services, we will accelerate the improvement of service management levels such as elderly care, zoning, and marriage registration. in response to the basic needs of the elderly, we will establish a basic elderly care service system, strengthen the construction of nursing beds, promote the integrated development of "elderly care services + medical resources", promote the combination of medical care and health care, and actively develop rural elderly care services. we will perform the coordination responsibilities for aging work, promote the improvement of the social security system, the elderly care service system, and the health support system. at the same time, we will carry out the "rural famous action", promote the mapping of rural place names and the online access of agricultural products, and help the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. we will optimize marriage registration services and pilot the "cross-provincial handling" of marriage registration in 21 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) across the country.

in terms of innovating grassroots social governance, we actively play the role of social organizations and charitable forces. we support the establishment of science and technology and service social organizations, and optimize the structure of social organizations. there are now 883,000 social organizations of all kinds across the country. we guide social organizations to pair up and help 160 national key counties for rural revitalization. we guide industry associations and chambers of commerce to serve high-quality development. we implement the charity law and guide charitable forces to actively participate in helping the weak and the poor, the elderly and orphans, and the sick and the disabled. since the beginning of this year, various charitable organizations have donated more than 3 billion yuan in cash and materials to key disaster-stricken provinces, providing strong support for disaster relief and reconstruction.

red star news chief reporter zhang yanliang reports from beijing

editor: guo zhuang, responsible editor: guan li