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Premier Li Qiang chairs State Council meeting on aging strategy, sports events, medical rehab, and TCM protection
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On September 18, Chinese Premier Li Qiang chaired a State Council executive meeting that addressed multiple policy areas. The meeting heard reports on elderly care work and called for a comprehensive and objective understanding of the impacts of population aging, urging the deep implementation of the national strategy to actively respond to an aging society. It emphasized improving service levels for the elderly through multi-tiered pension insurance, integrating home, community, and institutional care, and expanding affordable elderly services. The meeting also focused on developing the silver economy by enriching products and services for seniors. Separately, the council discussed boosting the sports events sector by increasing high-quality supply, integrating sports with culture, tourism, and commerce, and enhancing management capabilities. A plan to expand medical rehabilitation and nursing care services was approved, with a focus on community and home-based care, technological innovation, and pricing reforms. The council also approved the draft regulations on the protection of traditional Chinese medicine knowledge, aiming to safeguard and promote TCM. Finally, it discussed and approved in principle a draft amendment to 15 laws including the Emergency Response Law, which will be submitted to the National People's Congress Standing Committee for review.
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Beijing, September 18 — Premier Li Qiang presided over a State Council executive meeting on Wednesday. The meeting reviewed reports on work related to the aging population, studied measures to promote the healthy development of sports events, outlined plans to expand and upgrade medical rehabilitation and nursing care services, approved the Draft Regulation on the Protection of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Knowledge, and discussed the Draft Amendment to 15 Laws Including the Emergency Response Law of the People's Republic of China.
Aging Population and Elderly Services
The meeting emphasized the need to comprehensively and objectively understand the impact of population aging, and to thoroughly implement the national strategy for actively responding to an aging population in order to promote the comprehensive development and progress of elderly services.
Key points include:
- Improving service guarantees: Continue efforts in elderly care services, health promotion, and social security.
- Strengthening the pension system: Improve the multi-tiered and multi-pillar old-age insurance system.
- Integrating care models: Unblock channels linking home-based, community-based, and institutional elderly care services, and expand inclusive elderly care services.
- Stimulating the silver economy: Develop products and services tailored to the characteristics of the elderly, cultivate new consumption scenarios for the silver economy, and better meet the consumption needs of older adults, thereby achieving a two-way promotion of people's wellbeing and domestic demand expansion.
Healthy Development of Sports Events
The meeting noted that sports events are of great significance in meeting the diverse needs of the public and improving their quality of life. Key measures include:
- Increasing supply: Provide more high-quality sports events and make full use of various sports venues, facilities, and event resources.
- Coordinated development: Promote the coordinated development of competitive sports events, professional events, and mass participation events.
- Cross-sector integration: Foster the integration of sports events with culture, tourism, and commerce.
- Technological application: Accelerate the application of new technologies to enhance the spectator experience and amplify the comprehensive effects of events.
- Capacity building: Improve event management and support capabilities, cultivate a number of professional event operation entities, and strengthen management systems for venues, personnel, and institutions to ensure the safe development of all types of events.
Expansion of Medical Rehabilitation and Nursing Care
The meeting stressed the need to build a strong medical rehabilitation and nursing care service system with a focus on the grassroots level. Specific actions include:
- Extending services: Promote the extension of rehabilitation and nursing care resources to communities and families to improve accessibility for urban and rural residents.
- Leveraging technology: Rely on technological innovation to improve the level of medical rehabilitation and nursing care, develop more intelligent rehabilitation technologies and equipment, and optimize the review and approval process for new technologies and products.
- Enriching service scenarios: Expand the range of service scenarios available.
- Strengthening support: Dynamically adjust the catalog of rehabilitation medical and long-term care service items, deepen price reform for medical rehabilitation and nursing care services, improve talent training policies, and continuously enhance the professional appeal of these fields.
Protection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Knowledge
The meeting pointed out that TCM theories, techniques, and prescriptions are important resources for China's independent innovation. Priorities include:
- Strengthening protection: Comprehensively strengthen the protection and management of TCM traditional knowledge to safeguard the foundation for the survival and development of TCM.
- Coordinating conservation and utilization: Balance the protection and utilization of TCM resources.
- Deepening research: Continue to deepen research and interpretation of TCM's basic theories, diagnostic and treatment principles, and mechanisms of action.
- Promoting application: Increase the promotion and application of TCM traditional knowledge.
- Enhancing international influence: Strengthen foreign exchanges and cooperation to enhance the international influence of China's traditional medicine through mutual learning.
Amendment of 15 Laws
The meeting discussed and approved in principle the Draft Amendment to 15 Laws Including the Emergency Response Law of the People's Republic of China. It was decided that the draft amendment would be submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for deliberation.
The meeting also studied other matters.
(Source: Xinhua News Agency)
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