Premier Li Qiang delivered a government work report to the 14th National People's Congress on March 5, 2025

On the morning of March 5, 2025 (Wednesday), the opening meeting of the Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress was held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. President Xi Jinping and other party and state leaders attended the meeting. Premier Li Qiang delivered a government work report.

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and is a critical year for achieving the goals and tasks of the "14th Five-Year Plan".

Premier Li put forward the overall requirements for economic and social development this year in the government work report

Do a good job in government work, adhere to the general tone of work of seeking progress while maintaining stability, fully, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concept, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, focus on promoting high-quality development, comprehensively deepen reform and opening up, promote high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, increase macro-control efforts, coordinate the expansion of domestic demand and the deepening of supply-side structural reforms, coordinate new urbanization and comprehensive rural revitalization, coordinate high-quality development and high-level security, effectively enhance economic vitality, prevent and resolve risks, improve social expectations, consolidate and enhance the trend of economic recovery, continue to promote the effective improvement of economy quality and reasonable growth of quantity, improve people's livelihood and well-being, maintain social stability, and comprehensively promote the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation with Chinese-style modernization.

This year, the environment facing my country's development is still a coexistence of strategic opportunities and risks and challenges, with favorable conditions stronger than unfavorable factors. my country has significant institutional advantages, demand advantages of a super-large-scale market, supply advantages of a complete industrial system, and talent advantages of a large number of high-quality workers. Its scientific and technological innovation capabilities are continuously improving, new industries, new models, and new kinetic energy are growing rapidly, and endogenous driving forces for development are constantly accumulating. The basic trend of economic recovery and long-term improvement has not changed and will not change. We must strengthen our confidence and confidence. At the same time, we must adhere to the bottom line thinking and be fully prepared to deal with various risks and challenges.

Premier Li proposed the main expected development goals for this year in the government work report

The main expected development goals for this year are: GDP growth of about 5%; more than 12 million new urban jobs, urban survey unemployment rate of about 5.5%; consumer price increase of about 3%; residents' income growth and economic growth are synchronized; the balance of international payments remains basically balanced; grain output of more than 1.3 trillion catties; energy consumption per unit of GDP is reduced by about 2.5%, and the quality of the ecological environment continues to improve.

Li Qiang pointed out that to complete this year's development goals and tasks, we must focus on promoting high-quality development. We must adhere to quality first and efficiency first, continue to consolidate the foundation, enhance the targeted effectiveness of macro-control, focus on finding the focus of work and policy points from the expectations of enterprises and the masses, and strive to achieve the annual growth target. Adhere to the benign interaction between high-quality development and high-level safety, and on the premise of adhering to the bottom line of safety, find more ways to develop and help enterprises. Adhere to the protection and improvement of people's livelihood in development, pay attention to the development of thinking to look at the shortcomings of people's livelihood, and cultivate new economic growth points in solving the urgent needs of the people.

Fundamentally speaking, promoting high-quality development depends on reform. We must deepen reform and opening up with greater determination and strength, promote a better combination of effective markets and effective governments, continue to stimulate and enhance social vitality, and promote high-quality development to achieve new and greater results.

Premier Li put forward this year's economic and social development policy orientation in the government work report

Li Qiang pointed out that all regions and departments should introduce more policies that are conducive to stabilizing expectations, stabilizing growth, and stabilizing employment, and cautiously introduce contractionary and inhibitory measures, and clean up and abolish policies and regulations that are contrary to high-quality development. Strengthen counter-cyclical and cross-cyclical adjustments of macroeconomic policies, continue to implement proactive fiscal policies and prudent monetary policies, and strengthen innovation of policy tools and coordination and cooperation.

Active fiscal policies should be moderately strengthened, improved in quality and efficiency. Comprehensively consider development needs and fiscal sustainability, make good use of fiscal policy space, and optimize the combination of policy tools. The deficit rate is planned to be arranged at 3%, and the deficit scale is 4.06 trillion yuan, an increase of 180 billion yuan from the budget at the beginning of last year. It is expected that fiscal revenue will continue to recover this year, and with the transfer of funds, the scale of general public budget expenditure will be 28.5 trillion yuan, an increase of 1.1 trillion yuan over the previous year. It is planned to arrange 3.9 trillion yuan of local government special bonds, an increase of 100 billion yuan over the previous year. In order to systematically solve the funding problems of some major projects in the process of building a strong country and national rejuvenation, it is planned to issue ultra-long-term special treasury bonds for several consecutive years starting from this year, which will be used specifically for the implementation of major national strategies and the construction of security capabilities in key areas. This year, 1 trillion yuan will be issued first. Now many aspects need to increase fiscal investment. We must vigorously optimize the expenditure structure, strengthen the financial support for major national strategic tasks and basic people's livelihood, and strictly control general expenditures. The central government will increase the intensity of balanced transfer payments to local governments and appropriately tilt them to difficult areas. Provincial governments should promote the sinking of financial resources and ensure the bottom line of the "three guarantees" at the grassroots level. Implement the structural tax and fee reduction policies, and focus on supporting scientific and technological innovation and the development of the manufacturing industry. Strictly enforce financial discipline, strengthen financial and accounting supervision, strictly prohibit face projects and image projects, and resolutely stop extravagance and waste. Governments at all levels should get used to living a tight life, be truly thrifty, and effectively use fiscal funds on the cutting edge and use them effectively.

A prudent monetary policy should be flexible, moderate, precise and effective. Maintain a reasonable level of liquidity, and match the scale of social financing and money supply with the expected targets of economic growth and price levels. Strengthen the dual adjustment of total volume and structure, activate the stock, improve efficiency, and increase support for major strategies, key areas and weak links. Promote the steady decline of comprehensive social financing costs. Smooth the monetary policy transmission mechanism to avoid idle capital. Enhance the inherent stability of the capital market. Maintain the basic stability of the RMB exchange rate at a reasonable and balanced level. Vigorously develop science and technology finance, green finance, inclusive finance, pension finance, and digital finance. Optimize supporting measures such as financing credit enhancement, risk sharing, and information sharing to better meet the financing needs of small and medium-sized enterprises.

Enhance the consistency of macroeconomic policy orientation. Focusing on the overall development situation, strengthen the coordination and cooperation of fiscal, monetary, employment, industrial, regional, scientific and technological, and environmental protection policies, incorporate non-economic policies into the consistency assessment of macroeconomic policy orientation, strengthen policy coordination, and ensure that efforts are made in the same direction and synergy is formed. All regions and departments should listen carefully to and absorb opinions from all sides when formulating policies, and policies related to enterprises should focus on communicating with the market and responding to the concerns of enterprises. The implementation of policies should strengthen synergy and linkage, amplify the combination effect, and prevent losing sight of one thing and hindering each other. When studying reserve policies, we should enhance foresight, enrich the toolbox, and leave redundancy to ensure that they can be launched in a timely manner and play an effective role once needed. We should strengthen the follow-up evaluation of policy implementation, take the satisfaction of enterprises and the public as an important yardstick, and make timely adjustments and improvements. We should do a good job in policy publicity and interpretation, and create a stable, transparent and predictable policy environment.

In the government work report, Premier Li proposed to vigorously promote the construction of a modern industrial system and accelerate the development of new quality productivity.

Promote the optimization and upgrading of the industrial chain and supply chain. Maintain the stable operation of the industrial economy. Implement the high-quality development action of key industrial chains in the manufacturing industry, focus on filling the gaps, lengthening the long boards, forging new boards, and enhancing the resilience and competitiveness of the industrial chain and supply chain. Implement the manufacturing technology transformation and upgrading project, cultivate and expand advanced manufacturing clusters, create national new industrialization demonstration zones, and promote the high-end, intelligent, and green transformation of traditional industries. Accelerate the development of modern productive services. Promote the specialized and innovative development of small and medium-sized enterprises. Strengthen standard guidance and quality support to create more "Made in China" brands with international influence.

Actively cultivate emerging industries and future industries. Implement industrial innovation projects, improve the industrial ecology, expand application scenarios, and promote the development of strategic emerging industry integration clusters. Consolidate and expand the leading advantages of industries such as intelligent networked new energy vehicles, accelerate the development of cutting-edge emerging hydrogen energy, new materials, innovative drugs and other industries, and actively create new growth engines such as biomanufacturing, commercial aerospace, and low-altitude economy. Formulate future industrial development plans, open up new tracks such as quantum technology and life sciences, and create a number of future industry pilot zones. Encourage the development of venture capital and equity investment, and optimize the functions of industrial investment funds. Strengthen the overall layout and investment guidance of key industries to prevent overcapacity and low-level duplication.

Deepen the innovative development of the digital economy. Formulate policies to support the high-quality development of the digital economy, actively promote digital industrialization and industrial digitalization, and promote the deep integration of digital technology and the real economy. Deepen the research and development and application of big data, artificial intelligence, etc., carry out the "artificial intelligence +" action, and create a digital industry cluster with international competitiveness. Implement the digital transformation action of the manufacturing industry, accelerate the large-scale application of the industrial Internet, promote the digitalization of the service industry, and build smart cities and digital villages. Deepen the special action of digital empowerment of small and medium-sized enterprises. Support platform enterprises to show their talents in promoting innovation, increasing employment, and international competition. Improve the basic data system and vigorously promote the development, opening up, circulation and use of data. Moderately advance the construction of digital infrastructure and accelerate the formation of a national integrated computing system. We must empower economic development, enrich people's lives, and improve the level of modernization of social governance with extensive and profound digital changes.

In his government work report, Premier Li proposed to implement the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education in depth and strengthen the basic support for high-quality development.

Strengthen the construction of a high-quality education system. Fully implement the Party's education policy and insist on high-quality development as the lifeline of education at all levels and types. Formulate and implement the outline of the plan for building a strong country in education. Implement the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, and promote the integrated construction of ideological and political education in primary, secondary and high schools. Carry out actions to expand and improve the quality of basic education, accelerate the high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education and urban-rural integration, improve the conditions for running rural boarding schools, continue to deepen the "double reduction", promote the universal development of preschool education, and strengthen the construction of county-level general high schools. Run special education and continuing education well, guide and standardize the development of private education, and vigorously improve the quality of vocational education. Implement a pilot program for comprehensive reform of higher education, optimize the layout of disciplines, majors and resource structures, accelerate the construction of universities and advantageous disciplines with Chinese characteristics and world-class, and enhance the strength of colleges and universities in the central and western regions. Vigorously develop digital education. Carry forward the spirit of educators and build a high-quality and professional teaching team. We must give priority to the development of education, accelerate the modernization of education, lay a solid foundation for the happiness of the people, and consolidate the foundation for the prosperity of the country.

Accelerate the promotion of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance. Give full play to the advantages of the new national system and comprehensively enhance the ability of independent innovation. Strengthen the systematic layout of basic research, provide long-term and stable support for a number of innovation bases, advantageous teams and key directions, and enhance original innovation capabilities. Aiming at the major strategic needs of the country and the needs of industrial development, deploy and implement a number of major scientific and technological projects. Integrate national strategic scientific and technological forces and social innovation resources, promote the collaborative research of key core technologies, and strengthen the research of disruptive technologies and cutting-edge technologies. Improve the operation and management mechanism of national laboratories, and give play to the radiation and driving role of international and regional science and technology innovation centers. Accelerate the systematic layout of major scientific and technological infrastructure, and promote the construction of common technology platforms and pilot verification platforms. Strengthen the leading role of enterprises in scientific and technological innovation, encourage enterprises to increase investment in innovation, deepen the integration of production, learning, research and application, and support strong enterprises to lead major research tasks. Strengthen the research and development and application of people's livelihood science and technology such as health and elderly care. Accelerate the formation of basic systems to support comprehensive innovation, deepen the reform of science and technology evaluation, science and technology awards, scientific research projects and funding management systems, and improve the "unveiling the list and taking charge" mechanism. Strengthen intellectual property protection and formulate policy measures to promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. Carry out scientific popularization extensively. Cultivate an innovative culture, carry forward the spirit of scientists, and cultivate a good style of study. Expand international scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation, and create an open innovation ecosystem with global competitiveness.

Cultivate and use talents in all aspects. Implement more active, more open and more effective talent policies. Promote the construction of high-level talent highlands and platforms for attracting and gathering talents, and promote the rational layout and coordinated development of talent regions. Accelerate the construction of national strategic talent forces, strive to cultivate and create more first-class scientific and technological leaders and innovation teams, improve the mechanism for discovering and cultivating top innovative talents, build a platform for basic research talent training, create a team of outstanding engineers and high-skilled talents, and increase support for young scientific and technological talents. Actively promote international talent exchanges. Accelerate the establishment of a talent evaluation system oriented towards innovative value, ability and contribution, and optimize the work and life security and commendation and reward system. We must continue to work hard to improve the talent development environment and form a good situation where everyone can give full play to their talents and display their abilities.

In his government work report, Premier Li proposed to focus on expanding domestic demand and promoting a virtuous cycle of the economy

Promote stable growth of consumption. Comprehensively adopt measures to increase income, optimize supply, and reduce restrictive measures to stimulate consumption potential. Cultivate and expand new consumption, implement policies to promote digital consumption, green consumption, and healthy consumption, and actively cultivate new consumption growth points such as smart homes, entertainment tourism, sports events, and domestic "trendy products". Stabilize and expand traditional consumption, encourage and promote the replacement of old consumer goods with new ones, and boost bulk consumption such as smart networked new energy vehicles and electronic products. Promote the expansion and improvement of services such as elderly care, childcare, and housekeeping, and support social forces to provide community services. Optimize the consumption environment, carry out the "Consumption Promotion Year" activities, implement the "Rest Assured Consumption Action", strengthen consumer rights protection, and implement the paid vacation system. Implement the standard improvement action, accelerate the construction of a standard system that meets the requirements of high-quality development, promote the continuous improvement of the quality of goods and services, and better meet the people's needs for improving their lives.

Actively expand effective investment. Give full play to the driving and amplifying effect of government investment, focus on supporting scientific and technological innovation, new infrastructure, energy conservation, emission reduction and carbon reduction, strengthen the weak areas of the economy and society such as people's livelihood, promote the construction of flood control, drainage and disaster relief infrastructure, promote the renewal and technological transformation of various production equipment and service equipment, and accelerate the implementation of major engineering projects in the "14th Five-Year Plan". This year, the central budget investment is planned to be 700 billion yuan. Reasonably expand the investment areas of local government special bonds and the scope of use as capital, and the quota allocation is tilted towards areas with sufficient project preparation and high investment efficiency. Make good use of various funds in a coordinated manner to prevent inefficient and ineffective investment. Deepen the reform of the investment approval system. We will focus on stabilizing and expanding private investment, implement and improve support policies, implement new mechanisms for cooperation between the government and social capital, and encourage private capital to participate in major project construction. We will further remove various barriers and allow private investment to enter, develop, and make contributions in more areas.

In his government work report, Premier Li proposed to unswervingly deepen reforms and enhance the endogenous driving force of development

Stimulate the vitality of various business entities. State-owned enterprises, private enterprises, and foreign-funded enterprises are all important forces in modernization construction. We must continuously improve and implement the system and mechanism of "two unshakable" to create a good environment for fair competition and competitive development for enterprises of all ownership types. We will improve the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics and create more world-class enterprises. We will deeply implement the action plan for deepening and upgrading the reform of state-owned enterprises, strengthen and improve the main business, enhance core functions, and improve core competitiveness. We will establish a guidance system for optimizing the layout and structural adjustment of the state-owned economy. We will fully implement the opinions and supporting measures to promote the development and growth of the private economy, and further solve outstanding problems in market access, factor acquisition, fair law enforcement, and rights protection. We will increase the proportion of loans to private enterprises, expand the scale of bond financing, and strengthen classified support for individual industrial and commercial households. Implement actions to reduce logistics costs, improve long-term mechanisms to prevent and resolve arrears of accounts payable to enterprises, and resolutely investigate and punish arbitrary charges, fines, and levies. Carry forward the spirit of outstanding entrepreneurs, and actively support entrepreneurs to focus on innovation and development, dare to act, dare to venture, dare to invest, and run their businesses well.

Accelerate the construction of a unified national market. Formulate standard guidelines for the construction of a unified national market. Focus on promoting the unification of institutional rules in property rights protection, market access, fair competition, and social credit. Deepen the pilot of comprehensive reform of market-based allocation of factors. Issue administrative regulations on fair competition review, and improve regulatory rules for key areas, emerging areas, and foreign-related areas. Specially address prominent issues such as local protection, market segmentation, and unfair competition in attracting investment, and strengthen the regulation and management of the bidding market. Adhere to supervision in accordance with the law, strictly implement regulatory responsibilities, improve the accuracy and effectiveness of supervision, and resolutely maintain a fair and competitive market order.

Promote reforms in areas such as fiscal, taxation, and finance. Build a pilot zone for high-level socialist market economic system reform. Plan a new round of fiscal and taxation system reform, implement the deployment of financial system reform, and increase fiscal, taxation, and financial support for high-quality development. Deepen reforms in electricity, oil and gas, railways and integrated transportation systems, and improve the regulatory system and mechanism for natural monopoly links. Deepen reforms in social livelihood areas such as income distribution, social security, medical and health care, and elderly care services.

In his government work report, Premier Li proposed to expand high-level opening up to the outside world and promote mutual benefit and win-win results

Promote the quality and quantity of foreign trade. Strengthen support for import and export credit and export credit insurance, optimize cross-border settlement, exchange rate risk management and other services, and support enterprises to explore diversified markets. Promote the healthy development of new formats such as cross-border e-commerce, optimize the layout of overseas warehouses, support the upgrading of processing trade, and expand new growth points such as intermediate product trade and green trade. Actively expand the import of high-quality products. Fully implement the negative list of cross-border trade in services. Introduce innovative development policies for trade in services and digital trade. Accelerate the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade. Organize major exhibitions such as the China International Import Expo, the Canton Fair, the China International Fair for Trade in Services, and the China International Fair for Trade in Digital Commerce. Accelerate the construction of an international logistics system, create a smart customs, and help foreign trade companies reduce costs and improve efficiency.

Increase efforts to attract foreign investment. Continue to reduce the negative list of foreign investment access, completely cancel the restrictions on foreign investment access in the manufacturing sector, and relax market access for services such as telecommunications and medical care. Expand the catalog of industries that encourage foreign investment and encourage foreign-invested enterprises to reinvest in China. Implement national treatment for foreign-invested enterprises, ensure equal participation in government procurement, bidding, and standard setting in accordance with the law, and promote the resolution of issues such as cross-border data flows. Strengthen foreign investment service guarantees and create the "Invest in China" brand. Improve the convenience of foreign nationals working, studying, and traveling in China. Deepen the implementation of the free trade pilot zone upgrade strategy, grant more autonomy to the free trade pilot zone and Hainan Free Trade Port, promote reform and innovation in development zones, and create a new high ground for opening up.

Promote the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" to go deeper and more practical. Grasp the implementation of the eight actions to support the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road". Steadily advance cooperation on major projects, implement a number of "small and beautiful" livelihood projects, and actively promote cooperation in digital, green, innovation, health, cultural tourism, poverty reduction and other fields. Accelerate the construction of the new western land-sea channel.

Deepen multilateral, bilateral and regional economic cooperation. Promote the implementation of the free trade agreements that have come into effect, and negotiate and sign high-standard free trade agreements and investment agreements with more countries and regions. Promote the negotiations on the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area 3.0, and promote the accession to the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. Fully and deeply participate in the reform of the WTO, promote the construction of an open world economy, and let more win-win cooperation and win-win results benefit the people of all countries.

In the government work report, Premier Li proposed to better coordinate development and security, effectively prevent and resolve risks in key areas

Deal with risks and hidden dangers in a safe and orderly manner. Improve the coordination mechanism for the disposal of major risks, strengthen the main responsibility of enterprises, the supervision responsibility of departments, and the territorial responsibility of local governments, improve the efficiency of disposal, and firmly hold the bottom line of no systemic risks. Optimize real estate policies, give equal support to the reasonable financing needs of real estate enterprises of different ownerships, and promote the stable and healthy development of the real estate market. Coordinate the resolution of local debt risks and stable development, further implement a package of debt reduction plans, properly resolve existing debt risks, and strictly prevent new debt risks. Steadily promote the risk disposal of small and medium-sized financial institutions in some places. Severely crack down on illegal financial activities.

Improve the long-term mechanism for risk prevention and control. Adapt to the development trend of new urbanization and the changes in the supply and demand relationship of the real estate market, and accelerate the construction of a new model of real estate development. Increase the construction and supply of affordable housing, improve the basic systems related to commercial housing, and meet the rigid housing needs and diversified housing needs of residents. Establish a government debt management mechanism that is compatible with high-quality development, improve the full-caliber local debt monitoring and supervision system, and promote the transformation of local financing platforms in a classified manner. Improve the financial supervision system and enhance the ability to prevent and control financial risks.

Strengthen the construction of security capabilities in key areas. Improve the grain production, storage and processing system, and lay a solid foundation for food security in all aspects. Promote the construction of the national water network. Strengthen energy and resource security, and increase the exploration and development of oil, gas and strategic mineral resources. Accelerate the construction of a major country reserve system and strengthen the construction of key reserve facilities. Improve the security capabilities of networks, data, etc. Effectively maintain the security and stability of the industrial chain and supply chain, and support the smooth circulation of the national economy.

In the government work report, Premier Li proposed to unremittingly grasp the "three rural" work and solidly promote the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas.

Strengthen the stable production and supply of grain and important agricultural products. Stabilize the grain planting area, consolidate the results of soybean expansion, and promote large-scale yield increase. Appropriately increase the minimum purchase price of wheat, implement the production cost and income insurance policy of the three major staple grains across the country, and improve the income guarantee mechanism for grain farmers. Increase support for large grain-producing counties and improve the interest compensation mechanism in major production areas. Expand oil production, stabilize the production capacity of animal husbandry and fisheries, and develop modern facility agriculture. Strengthen the prevention and control of pests and diseases and animal diseases. Increase the efforts to revitalize the seed industry and tackle key core technologies in agriculture, and implement the action of filling the gaps in agricultural machinery and equipment. Strictly adhere to the red line of cultivated land, improve the balance system of cultivated land occupation and compensation, strengthen the protection of black soil and comprehensive management of saline-alkali land, and increase the level of investment subsidies for high-standard farmland construction. All regions must shoulder the responsibility of ensuring national food security. As a country with a large population, we must practice the concept of big agriculture and big food, and always keep our rice bowl firmly in our hands.

Unremittingly consolidate and expand the results of poverty alleviation. Strengthen the monitoring and assistance work to prevent poverty relapse, and ensure that large-scale poverty relapse does not occur. Support poverty-stricken areas to develop characteristic and advantageous industries, promote employment-based actions to prevent poverty relapse, and strengthen follow-up assistance for relocation. Deepen east-west cooperation and targeted assistance. Increase support for key counties for national rural revitalization, establish and improve a regular assistance mechanism for low-income rural populations and underdeveloped areas, and make poverty alleviation results more stable and effective.

Steadily promote rural reform and development. Deepen rural land system reform, and launch a province-wide pilot project to extend the second round of land contracts for another 30 years after they expire. Deepen reforms in collective property rights, collective forest rights, agricultural reclamation, supply and marketing cooperatives, and promote the development of new rural collective economy. Focus on promoting farmers' income growth, strengthening rural industries that enrich the people, developing new agricultural operators and social services, and cultivating and making good use of rural talents. Deepen the implementation of rural construction actions, vigorously improve rural infrastructure and public services such as water, electricity, roads, gas, and telecommunications, strengthen the construction of charging piles, cold chain logistics, and delivery and distribution facilities, increase the earthquake-resistant transformation of rural houses, and continuously improve the rural living environment to build a livable, business-friendly and beautiful countryside.

In the government work report, Premier Li proposed to promote urban-rural integration and regional coordinated development, and vigorously optimize the economic layout

Actively promote new urbanization. There is still a lot of room for development and improvement in my country's urbanization. We must deeply implement the new urbanization strategic action, promote the two-way flow of various factors, and form a new pattern of urban-rural integrated development. Put the acceleration of the urbanization of agricultural migrant population in a prominent position, deepen the reform of the household registration system, improve the "people, land, and money" linkage policy, allow willing migrant workers to settle in cities, and promote the equal enjoyment of basic urban public services by permanent residents who have not settled. Cultivate and develop county economy, make up for the shortcomings of infrastructure and public services, and make county towns an important carrier of new urbanization. Focus on relying on urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas to promote the coordinated development of large, medium and small cities. Promote the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing Twin Cities Economic Circle. Steadily implement urban renewal actions, promote the construction of "dual-use" public infrastructure and urban village renovation, accelerate the improvement of underground pipe networks, promote the solution of problems such as installing elevators and parking in old communities, strengthen the construction of barrier-free and aging-friendly facilities, and create livable, smart and resilient cities. New urbanization should be people-oriented everywhere, improve the level of refined management and services, and let the people enjoy a higher quality of life.

Improve the level of regional coordinated development. Give full play to the comparative advantages of various regions, actively integrate into and serve the construction of a new development pattern in accordance with the main functional positioning. Deeply implement the strategies of western development, comprehensive revitalization of the northeast, accelerated rise of the central region, and accelerated modernization in the eastern region, and enhance the ability of the northeast and central and western regions to undertake industrial transfer. Support the economic development advantage regions such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to better play the role of high-quality development power source. Grasp the implementation of landmark projects in Xiongan New Area. Continue to promote the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and promote ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin. Support the accelerated development of old revolutionary areas and ethnic areas, strengthen the construction of border areas, and coordinate the promotion of the action of enriching the border and enriching the people. Optimize the layout of major productive forces and strengthen the construction of national strategic hinterland. Formulate the optimization implementation plan of the main functional areas and improve supporting policies. Vigorously develop the marine economy and build a strong maritime country.

Premier Li proposed in the government work report to strengthen the construction of ecological civilization and promote green and low-carbon development

Promote comprehensive governance of the ecological environment. Deeply implement the action plan for continuous improvement of air quality, coordinate the management of water resources, water environment and water ecology, strengthen the prevention and control of soil pollution sources, and strengthen the management of solid waste, new pollutants and plastic pollution. Adhere to the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands and sands, and strengthen the regional management of ecological environment. Organize and fight the three landmark battles of the "Three Norths" project and promote the construction of national parks. Strengthen the ecological protection and management of important rivers, lakes and reservoirs. Continue to promote the ten-year fishing ban in the Yangtze River. Implement major biodiversity protection projects. Improve the value realization mechanism of ecological products, improve the ecological protection compensation system, and fully mobilize the enthusiasm of all parties to protect and improve the ecological environment.

Vigorously develop a green and low-carbon economy. Promote the green transformation of industrial structure, energy structure, transportation structure, and urban and rural construction. Implement a comprehensive conservation strategy and accelerate energy-saving and water-saving transformation in key areas. Improve fiscal, tax, financial, investment, price policies and related market-oriented mechanisms to support green development, promote the development of waste recycling industry, promote the research and application of advanced energy-saving and carbon-reduction technologies, and accelerate the formation of a green and low-carbon supply chain. Build a pilot zone for beautiful China and create a highland for green and low-carbon development.

Actively and steadily promote carbon peak and carbon neutrality. Solidly carry out the "Ten Actions for Carbon Peaking". Improve the statistical accounting and verification capabilities of carbon emissions, establish a carbon footprint management system, and expand the coverage of the national carbon market industry. Deepen the energy revolution, control fossil energy consumption, and accelerate the construction of a new energy system. Strengthen the construction of large-scale wind power and photovoltaic bases and transmission channels, promote the development and utilization of distributed energy, develop new energy storage, promote the use of green electricity and international mutual recognition, give play to the bottom-line role of coal and coal-fired power, and ensure the energy demand for economic and social development.

Premier Li proposed in the government work report to effectively protect and improve people's livelihood and strengthen and innovate social governance

When introducing the government's work tasks this year, Li Qiang proposed to effectively protect and improve people's livelihood and strengthen and innovate social governance.

Take multiple measures to stabilize employment and increase income. Employment is the most basic livelihood. It is necessary to highlight the employment priority orientation, strengthen the support of fiscal, taxation, financial and other policies for stabilizing employment, and increase the intensity of special policies to promote employment. Implement and improve policies such as job retention refunds, special loans, employment and social security subsidies, and strengthen support for industries and enterprises with large employment capacity. It is estimated that there will be more than 11.7 million college graduates this year. We must strengthen policies and measures to promote youth employment and optimize employment and entrepreneurship guidance services. We must do a solid job in employment for retired soldiers, migrant workers and other groups, and strengthen support for people with employment difficulties such as the disabled. We must classify and improve flexible employment service guarantee measures, and expand the pilot program of occupational injury protection for employees in new employment forms. We must resolutely correct all kinds of employment discrimination, guarantee the payment of wages for migrant workers, improve the labor relations consultation and coordination mechanism, and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of workers. We must adapt to the talent needs in advanced manufacturing, modern services, elderly care and other fields, and strengthen vocational skills training. We must increase the income of urban and rural residents through multiple channels, expand the size of the middle-income group, and strive to increase the income of the low-income group.

Improve medical and health service capabilities. We must continue to do a good job in the prevention and control of key infectious diseases. The per capita fiscal subsidy standard for residents' medical insurance is increased by 30 yuan. We must promote the coordinated development and governance of medical insurance, medical care, and medicine. We must promote provincial-level coordination of basic medical insurance, improve the national centralized drug procurement system, strengthen the normalized supervision of the use of medical insurance funds, and implement and improve the settlement of medical expenses in other places. We must deepen the reform of public hospitals, improve medical services with patients as the center, and promote mutual recognition of inspection and test results. Focus on promoting tiered diagnosis and treatment, guide high-quality medical resources to sink to the grassroots level, strengthen the coordinated linkage of county and rural medical services, and expand the types of drugs for chronic diseases and common diseases in grassroots medical and health institutions. Accelerate the filling of service gaps in pediatrics, geriatrics, mental health, medical care, etc. Promote the inheritance and innovation of traditional Chinese medicine, and strengthen the construction of traditional Chinese medicine specialty. Deepen the Healthy China Action and the Patriotic Health Campaign to build a solid health defense line for the people.

Strengthen social security and services. Implement the national strategy of actively responding to population aging. Increase the minimum monthly standard of basic pension for urban and rural residents by 20 yuan, continue to increase the basic pension for retirees, and improve the national coordination of pension insurance. Implement the individual pension system throughout the country and actively develop the third pillar pension insurance. Provide good service and guarantee for retired soldiers. Strengthen the construction of urban and rural community elderly care service network, and increase the efforts to fill the gaps in rural elderly care services. Strengthen the supply of elderly products and services, and vigorously develop the silver economy. Promote the establishment of a long-term care insurance system. Improve fertility support policies, optimize the maternity leave system, improve the reasonable sharing mechanism of labor costs of business entities, increase the supply of childcare services through multiple channels, and reduce the burden of family childbirth, raising and education. Provide care and assistance to left-behind children and children in difficult situations. Strengthen disability prevention and rehabilitation services, and improve the foster care policy for severely disabled people. Improve the stratified and classified social assistance system, coordinate the prevention of poverty and the assistance policy for low-income people, and weave a tight and solid safety net for people's livelihood.

Enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the people. Widely practice the core socialist values. Develop philosophy and social sciences, news publishing, radio and television, literature and art, and archives. Deepen the national cultural digitization strategy. Deepen national reading activities. Improve the comprehensive governance of the Internet and cultivate a positive, healthy, and positive Internet culture. Innovatively implement cultural benefit projects and improve the level of free opening services of public cultural venues. Vigorously develop the cultural industry. Carry out the fourth national cultural relics survey and strengthen the systematic protection and rational use of cultural relics. Promote the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage. Deepen cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries and improve international communication capabilities. Increase the intensity of sports reform. Prepare for the 2024 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. Build and use sports facilities around the people well and promote the widespread development of national fitness activities.

Maintain national security and social stability. Implement the overall national security concept and strengthen the national security system and capacity building. Improve the level of public security governance and promote the transformation of the governance model to pre-emptive prevention. Focus on consolidating the grassroots foundation of production safety and disaster prevention, mitigation and relief, and enhance emergency response capabilities. Solidly carry out the three-year action plan to tackle the root causes of production safety, strengthen the investigation and rectification of risks and hidden dangers in key industries and fields, consolidate the responsibilities of all parties, and resolutely prevent major accidents. Do a good job in preventing and responding to floods, droughts, forest and grassland fires, geological disasters, earthquakes, etc., and strengthen meteorological services. Strictly supervise the safety of food, drugs, special equipment, etc. Improve the social governance system. Strengthen the service functions of urban and rural communities. Guide and support the healthy development of social organizations, humanitarian assistance, volunteer services, public welfare and charity. Protect the legitimate rights and interests of women, children, the elderly and the disabled. Adhere to and develop the "Fengqiao Experience" in the new era, promote the prevention and resolution of contradictions and disputes, and promote the legalization of petition work. Strengthen public legal services. Strengthen the overall prevention and control of social security, promote the normalization of cracking down on gangsters and eliminating evil, crack down on all kinds of illegal and criminal activities in accordance with the law, and build a higher level of safe China.

In his government work report, Premier Li proposed to strive to build a law-based government, an innovative government, an honest government, and a service-oriented government that satisfies the people, and to fully perform the government's duties.

Li Qiang pointed out that we must take adhering to high-quality development as the hard truth of the new era, and take benefiting the people as the most important political achievement, and strive to build a law-based government, an innovative government, an honest government, and a service-oriented government that satisfies the people, and to fully perform the government's duties.

Deepen the promotion of administration according to law. Strictly abide by the Constitution and laws. Consciously accept the supervision of the People's Congress and its Standing Committee at the same level, consciously accept the democratic supervision of the CPPCC, and consciously accept the supervision of society and public opinion. Strengthen audit supervision. Adhere to scientific, democratic, and legal decision-making, and formulate policies in accordance with laws, gather consensus, and have a legal basis. Improve the government affairs disclosure system. Comprehensively promote strict, standardized, fair, and civilized law enforcement. Support mass organizations such as trade unions, the Communist Youth League, and the Women's Federation to play a better role. Carry forward the spirit of self-revolution, persevere in rectifying the style of work, strengthening discipline, and combating corruption, and deepen the construction of party style and clean government and the fight against corruption. Government workers must abide by laws and regulations, be honest and self-disciplined, be diligent and responsible, and do things for the people cleanly.

Comprehensively improve administrative efficiency. Adhere to optimizing coordination and efficiency, deepen the transformation of government functions, and continuously improve execution and credibility. Adhere to correct ideological methods and working methods, have the courage to break the mindset and path dependence, actively plan and use the work tools with strong traction and leverage, and truly implement them without compromise, resolute and vigorous, seek truth and be pragmatic, dare to do good, and meet the expectations of the people. Carry out investigation and research, and implement the "four grassroots" system. Accelerate the construction of digital government. Driven by the promotion of "efficient completion of one thing", improve the level of government services. Resolutely correct formalism and bureaucracy, further streamline documents and meetings, improve supervision, inspection and assessment, and continue to reduce the burden on grassroots and enterprises. Implement the "three distinctions" and improve the incentive and protection mechanism for cadres to take responsibility. The majority of cadres should enhance the sense of responsibility of "always worrying about it", and effectively transform it into the action of "having a bottom line in everything", boost the spirit of doing things and starting businesses, work hard, work hard, and do a good job, and strive to create new achievements that are worthy of the times and the people.

Premier Li finally said that the mission is to take responsibility and strive to create the future. We will strive to complete the annual economic and social development goals and tasks, and make efforts to build a modern China.

 

On the morning of March 5, 2025 (Wednesday), the opening meeting of the Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress was held in the Great Hall of the People.As the first agenda of the conference, Premier Li Qiang delivered a government work report.

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