CCTV:

In recent years, Guizhou has actively promoted various welfare projects in areas such as employment, education, and medical care. Could you please specify what concrete actions have been taken? Have these efforts effectively addressed the public's pressing concerns and needs? What further measures are planned for the future? Thank you.

Li Bingjun:

Thank you for your question. I'll answer it now. We have taken meeting the people's expectations as the goal of our governance. We have consistently acted on the people-centered development philosophy. Ensuring and improving the people's wellbeing are the core focus and foundation of all our work. We strive to make people's lives more prosperous and better. Let me provide an overview from several perspectives.

We strive to ensure stable employment for more people, promoting local job opportunities. Last September, Shi Chuanying, an embroiderer from Taijiang, Guizhou, showcased her exquisite Miao embroidery at Milan Fashion Week, demonstrating her exceptional craftsmanship. There are over 500,000 trained embroiderers in Guizhou like her. Many Guizhou natives working elsewhere are now finding opportunities back home. For instance, Zheng'an county in Guizhou has attracted talent to develop its guitar industry, earning the nickname "Hometown of Chinese Guitar Manufacturing" and creating jobs for 14,000 people. In recent years, Guizhou has added 600,000 urban jobs annually, organized labor exports, and maintained around 6 million workers outside the province under its "Six-Six Employment Stability Plan."

We strive to make travel more convenient for people. Every city and prefecture in the province now has airports and high-speed railways. Highways connect counties, and villages have cement roads. Industrial roads go directly to farmlands, and courier packages are delivered to farmers' doorsteps. People can now easily take buses right from their doorsteps, making isolated transportation a thing of the past. The transportation improvement in Guizhou has made travel more convenient and brought profound changes to people's thinking, production conditions, and way of life. Building roads connects not just vehicles, but hearts as well.  

We strive to provide people with access to quality medical resources. We have established five national and regional medical centers, allowing people in Guizhou to benefit from the high-quality medical resources found in developed regions. Recently, the Guizhou Branch of Shanghai Children's Medical Center successfully performed liver tumor resection surgery on a baby just 6 days old, setting a national record for the youngest patient to undergo this procedure. At the same time, we are accelerating efforts to decentralize high-quality medical resources, allowing more people to receive excellent healthcare closer to home.

We strive to enable more young people in Guizhou to attend university and receive a better education. Currently, higher education in our province has entered a stage of universal access. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), we plan to add 154,000 higher education seats. At the same time, we are enhancing the development of scientific and engineering universities, colleges and as well as disciplines to meet the demands of economic and social development, particularly industry needs, and accelerating the development of vocational education. Last year, spending on education accounted for one-fifth of our government expenditures.

We are deeply committed to providing safeguards to enable extremely vulnerable groups to meet their basic living needs. For people living on subsistence allowances, children in welfare institutions, and people with disabilities, we are gradually raising social security standards in line with economic and social development. This ensures that everyone can share benefits of high-quality development.

Next, we will continue to implement more initiatives that deliver real benefits to the people to their satisfaction, ensuring that the people of Guizhou can enjoy a safer and better quality of life. Thank you.