Safeguarding and Improving People’s Livelihood in Development —— Seriously Study Volumes I and II of Selected Readings of the Supreme Leader’s Works

　　The first and second volumes of Selected Readings of the Works of the Supreme Leader systematically show the scientific system of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era, which runs through the fundamental position of people first. Many articles reflect the value orientation, important requirements, key tasks, basic principles and ideological methods of safeguarding and improving people’s livelihood in development, which fully embodies the scientific grasp and regular understanding of the staged characteristics of people’s livelihood construction by General Secretary of the Supreme Leader. It shows outstanding political wisdom, extraordinary theoretical courage, strong mission and deep feelings for the people, points out the direction and provides fundamental follow-up for doing a good job in people’s livelihood, and provides a powerful source of strength for the whole party and the people of the whole country to comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese modernization. We should thoroughly study and understand, and earnestly implement it.

　　Adhere to and strengthen the leadership of the party to ensure the stability and long-term development of people’s livelihood.

　　The leadership of the party is the fundamental guarantee for safeguarding and improving people’s livelihood in development. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized that the Communist Party of China (CPC) is the highest political leading force. The Communist Party of China (CPC)’s leadership is the most essential feature of Socialism with Chinese characteristics and the greatest advantage of Socialism with Chinese characteristics system. Adhering to the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee is the highest political principle. The leadership of the Party is the greatest national condition in China. Practice has fully proved that upholding the party’s leadership is the root and lifeblood of the party and the country, and it is the interest and destiny of the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has closely followed the theme of the times, closely followed the needs of the masses, made timely and scientific decisions, implemented the employment priority strategy, built a harmonious labor relationship, and deepened the reform of the social security system. In a developing country with a large population, we have maintained stable employment for a long time, built the largest social security system in the world, and made great achievements that have attracted worldwide attention. The new era and new journey to promote the modernization with a huge population and common prosperity for all people is a profound social change and a transcendence of western modernization and welfare society. It is unprecedented in arduousness and complexity, and unprecedented in significance and influence. Only by upholding and strengthening the Party’s leadership and giving full play to the Party’s powerful political leadership, ideological leadership, mass organization and social appeal can we effectively cope with the impacts and influences from all sides, lead all the people to work together to create a better life and build people’s livelihood more solidly, firmly and effectively.

　　To uphold and strengthen the leadership of the Party, the most fundamental thing is to strengthen the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, deeply understand the decisive significance of "two establishment" to the development of the cause of the Party and the country in the new era and to promote the historical process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, constantly improve political judgment, political understanding and political execution, comprehensively implement the Party’s basic theory, line and general plan, enhance "four consciousnesses", strengthen "four self-confidences" and achieve "two maintenance" It is necessary to thoroughly study and understand the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, combine the study of the Party’s innovation theory with solving the practical interests of the masses and promoting the reform and innovation of policies and systems in the field of people’s livelihood, and turn it into practical results to promote the high-quality development of people’s livelihood construction. It is necessary to take the implementation of the spirit of the important instructions of the Supreme Leader General Secretary on people’s livelihood as the primary political task, study and deeply understand it in time, and implement it comprehensively, accurately and creatively. It is necessary to fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the decision-making arrangements made by the CPC Central Committee on people’s livelihood work, be a good executor, activist and doer, and make progress in benchmarking key tasks.

　　Adhere to the people-centered development thought, and make the people live a good life as the starting point and the end result of all work.

　　The people-centered development thought embodies our party’s distinct people’s stand. The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed that it is necessary to adhere to the people-centered development thinking and take enhancing people’s well-being, promoting people’s all-round development, and making steady progress towards common prosperity as the starting point and the end result of economic development. Only by adhering to the people-centered development thought, insisting that development is for the people, development depends on the people, and development results are shared by the people, can we have a correct concept of development and modernization. The people-centered development thought is a vivid expression of communist party people’s initial intention and mission, and profoundly answers the development purpose of "for whom", the driving force of "who depends on" and the value question of "who enjoys". This is a profound summary of our party’s practical experience in leading socialist modernization, which is in line with the party’s fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly and has distinctive characteristics of the times, and is the key to solving the main contradictions in our society.

　　Adhering to the people-centered development idea means that all work should be carried out in order to realize people’s interests, make more effective institutional arrangements, gather development forces extensively, and make development a development that benefits the people. We must conform to the people’s needs for a better life, actively respond to the people’s actual needs, identify the focus and breakthrough point of doing a good job, and constantly meet the people’s expectations for a better life in terms of more stable work, more satisfactory income, and more reliable social security. We should gather the wisdom and strength of the people, respect their initiative, adhere to the dominant position of distribution according to work, and fully mobilize the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of the people. It is necessary to promote high-quality full employment, improve the multi-level social security system, improve the wage and income distribution system, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of workers, and promote the sharing of the fruits of reform and development. We should take the mass line well, look at problems from the perspective of the masses, learn to put ourselves in other’s shoes, and strive to make all policies and measures reflect public opinion, enhance people’s interests and win people’s hearts. It is necessary to regard people’s satisfaction as the fundamental criterion for testing work, firmly establish a correct view of political achievements, and refrain from formalism and bureaucracy, so that people’s livelihood work can stand the test of the masses, practice and history.

　　Adhere to the new development concept to lead high-quality development, so that the achievements of modernization can benefit all people more fairly.

　　High-quality development is the primary task of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way and the premise and foundation for safeguarding and improving people’s livelihood. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed that it is necessary to persist in safeguarding and improving people’s livelihood in development and give priority to promoting high-quality development. We must strive to do a good job in various people’s livelihood undertakings and fill the shortcomings in the field of people’s livelihood in the process of promoting high-quality development. Promoting high-quality development is a scientific judgment and major decision-making arrangement based on the changes of China’s development stage, development environment and development conditions, and aiming at the problems of unbalanced, uncoordinated and unsustainable development. High-quality development is the development that embodies the new development concept. High-quality development is the theme, and the complete, accurate and comprehensive implementation of the new development concept is the guide, which runs through the whole development process and all fields. People’s happiness and well-being is the ultimate goal of promoting high-quality development, and people’s livelihood is connected with domestic demand and development, and grasping people’s livelihood is also grasping development. Employment is a bridge between social demand and supply, a link between production, exchange, distribution and consumption, and supports the basic disk of macroeconomic and microeconomic operation. Effective development and utilization of human resources is an inherent requirement to improve the total factor productivity. Perfecting the wage and income distribution system is an important prerequisite for expanding consumer demand. Social security can improve residents’ consumption expectations and stimulate effective demand. Constructing harmonious labor relations is conducive to the steady improvement of enterprise benefits. All these are conducive to enhancing the balance, coordination and inclusiveness of economic and social development.

　　Adhering to the new development concept to lead high-quality development is to safeguard and improve people’s livelihood in development, enhance the internal driving force of development, realize the complementary and benign interaction between high-quality development and improvement of people’s livelihood, and promote the all-round enrichment of things and the all-round development of people. We should regard employment as the foundation of development and the source of wealth, speed up the establishment of a work system to promote high-quality full employment, strengthen the priority orientation of employment in promoting high-quality development, and constantly promote the expansion and quality improvement of employment, so that more people can realize their own values and create social wealth through labor. It is necessary to systematically integrate, coordinate and efficiently promote the reform of the social security system, weave a social security safety net, stabilize social expectations, relieve the worries of the masses, and lay a solid foundation for economic and social development. It is necessary to improve the wage determination, reasonable growth and payment guarantee mechanism, increase the labor remuneration of workers, especially front-line workers, expand middle-income groups, and better stimulate vitality, reflect efficiency and promote fairness. It is necessary to build and improve harmonious labor relations with China characteristics, make overall plans to safeguard workers’ rights and interests and enterprise development, and constantly improve the level of protection of workers’ rights and interests on the basis of economic development. It is necessary to make full use of human resources, improve the human capital and professional skills of the whole society, and provide strong talent support for high-quality development.

　　Insist on doing our best and doing what we can, so as to ensure and improve people’s livelihood and adapt to the level of economic development

　　Doing one’s best and doing what one can is an important principle to protect and improve people’s livelihood in development. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized that we should do our best and do what we can under realistic conditions, so that the people can get tangible benefits. Do your best, emphasizing the responsibility and initiative of the party and the government. Do what you can, emphasizing that everything must proceed from reality and fully consider the realistic conditions at a specific stage of development. This fully embodies Marxist dialectics and materialism, and requires starting from what can be done under realistic conditions, doing one thing after another, year after year, and constantly promoting the sustainable development of people’s livelihood construction. China is still a big developing country, and it is in the primary stage of socialism for a long time. Safeguarding and improving people’s livelihood must not be divorced from this greatest reality. We should give more "charcoal in the snow" and less "icing on the cake". We will neither hesitate to give more money, spend less money, nor aim too high, live beyond our means and pay lip service.

　　Insisting on doing our best and doing what we can means following the laws of economic and social development, coordinating needs and possibilities, and building the protection and improvement of people’s livelihood on the basis of economic development and sustainable financial resources. We should proceed from reality, improve the mechanism of social security financing and treatment adjustment, improve the wage and income distribution system, gradually improve the level of social security with the level of economic development, realize the synchronous growth of residents’ income while economic growth, and realize the synchronous growth of labor remuneration while improving labor productivity. We should take economic development as the fundamental support to solve the employment problem, focus on enhancing the vitality of micro-subjects, cultivate and continue strong new employment momentum, and form a virtuous circle of economic growth and employment expansion. It is necessary to grasp the characteristics of stability, continuity and accumulation of people’s livelihood work, proceed from protecting the basic rights and interests of the people, make steady progress, step by step, make solid progress, persevere and continue to exert strength, and constantly form phased results, and accumulate small victories for great victories. It is necessary to closely combine the economic and social development in different regions and the actual situation of enterprises in different industries, strengthen classified guidance and precise policies, and effectively enhance the targeted effectiveness of policy formulation and promotion.

　　Adhere to everyone’s responsibility and everyone’s enjoyment, and encourage common struggle to create a better life.

　　Everyone’s responsibility and enjoyment are the basic ways to protect and improve people’s livelihood. The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed that it is necessary to gather people’s wisdom extensively, stimulate people’s strength to the greatest extent, and form a vivid situation in which everyone participates, everyone tries their best, and everyone has a sense of accomplishment. Let the vitality of all labor, knowledge, technology, management, capital and other elements compete in generate, and let all sources of social wealth flow in full. The people are the main body enjoying the fruits of reform and development, and they are also the main body promoting the improvement of people’s livelihood. To protect and improve people’s livelihood in development, it is necessary to promote the broad participation of the masses, guide them to establish the belief of improving their lives through hard work, and maximize their spirit of struggle and creative potential, so that improving people’s livelihood is not only the direction of the work of the party and the government, but also the goal of the masses themselves. It is necessary to adhere to social fairness and justice, remove obstacles that affect workers’ participation in development and sharing the fruits of development, and strive to achieve fairness in rights, opportunities and rules, so that everyone has the opportunity to realize their own development through hard work.

　　Adhering to everyone’s responsibility and everyone’s enjoyment is to create a good social environment, enhance the creative vitality of the whole society, promote people’s equal participation, equal development and equal enjoyment, and constantly promote all people to do their best and get their place. It is necessary to adhere to the principles of independent employment of workers, market regulation of employment, government promotion of employment and encouragement of entrepreneurship, strengthen the direction of market-oriented socialized employment, promote workers to change their employment concepts, improve the security system for promoting entrepreneurship to drive employment, support and standardize the development of new employment forms, and cultivate diversified and multi-level employment needs. Efforts should be made to get rid of the drawbacks of the system and policies that hinder the flow of labor and talents, improve the unified national labor market, eliminate unreasonable restrictions and employment discrimination that affect equal employment, create an employment environment of equal competition, smooth the upward flow channels, break through the barriers of solidification of interests, and prevent the solidification of social classes. We should persist in getting more for more work, improve the ability of employment and entrepreneurship, optimize the distribution pattern of wages and income, broaden the space for career development, and encourage hard work and innovation to get rich. We should respect labor, knowledge, talents and creativity, vigorously carry forward the spirit of model workers, workers and craftsmen, and firmly establish the concepts of the most glorious, noble, greatest and most beautiful labor, so that all people can further glow their labor enthusiasm, release their creative potential and create a better life through labor. It is necessary to improve the incentive mechanism of social security payment, encourage and guide the masses to participate in insurance, correctly grasp the reasonable proportional relationship between social assistance, minimum wage and unemployment insurance standard, and relevant policies and systems cannot encourage lazy people.It is necessary to improve basic labor standards, expand the coverage of social insurance, strengthen the protection of workers’ rights and interests in flexible employment and new employment forms, and fully implement workers’ basic rights such as labor remuneration, social security, rest and vacation.

　　Strengthen the construction of inclusive and basic people’s livelihood and continuously improve people’s quality of life.

　　Inclusive, basic and comprehensive people’s livelihood construction is an important task of people’s livelihood work. The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed that we should start with solving the most direct and realistic interests of the masses, do a good job in building people’s livelihood in an inclusive, basic and comprehensive way, comprehensively improve the co-construction capacity and sharing level of public services, meet the diverse livelihood needs of the people, and weave a dense livelihood security network. People’s livelihood work is complicated, closest to the people and closest to their lives. This requires starting from what the people care about, starting from what satisfies the people, seeking more benefits and solving more worries about people’s livelihood, and at a higher level, achieving education for young children, learning and teaching, income from work, medical care for the elderly, housing and support for the weak, so that people can gain a sense of happiness, security and sustainability.

　　To strengthen the construction of inclusive, basic and comprehensive people’s livelihood, we should focus on solving the urgent problems of the people, improve the basic public service system, improve the level of public services, and ensure that the people live and work in peace and contentment and the social order is stable and orderly. It is necessary to regard the distribution system as the basic system to promote common prosperity, adhere to the principle of distribution according to work and the coexistence of various distribution methods, and build a coordinated system of primary distribution, redistribution and third distribution. We should regard employment as the most basic livelihood, implement the employment priority strategy, strengthen the employment priority policy, improve the employment promotion mechanism, and promote high-quality full employment. We should regard the social security system as a safety net for people’s lives and a stabilizer for social operation, and improve a multi-level social security system that covers the whole people, coordinates urban and rural areas, is fair, unified, safe and standardized, and sustainable. We should regard people’s health as an important symbol of national prosperity and national prosperity, improve people’s health promotion policies, and promote the construction of a healthy China. We should regard education as an important cornerstone of national rejuvenation and social progress, accelerate the modernization of education, build a strong educational country, and run a satisfactory education for the people. We should pay special attention to, care for and care for all kinds of people in difficulty, strengthen the function of social policy, improve the mechanism of social policy and do everything possible to help them solve problems.

　　Safeguarding and improving people’s livelihood in development is a long-term work, with no end, only a continuous new starting point. We should thoroughly study and implement the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, always keep in mind that making people’s lives happy is the "great power of the country", stick to the bottom line, highlight key points, improve the system, guide expectations, take measures with stronger pertinence, wider coverage, more direct effects and more obvious effects, constantly meet the people’s growing needs for a better life, and make positive contributions to solidly promoting Chinese modernization. (This article Source: Economic Daily Author: Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security Party Theory Learning Center Group)