Inclusive well-being focus of civil affairs work

A woman buys pineapples in a supermarket in Xuwen county, South China's Guangdong province, on March 6, 2021. [Photo/IC]

The central authorities recently called for efforts to enhance inclusive public services to meet the essential needs of the people and ensure basic living standards for those facing difficulties.

Although relevant departments at various levels have made new progress in almost all aspects of civil affairs work in recent years, they should continue to follow a people-centered approach to resolve the most practical problems that are of the greatest and most direct concern to the people.

The civil affairs work is related to people's livelihoods and connected to people's sense of well-being.

The civil affairs departments should speed up the improvement of the systems for policy implementation, and strengthen their service guarantees, supervision and management. They should broaden the social coverage and provide stratified social assistance. And they should ensure the provision of welfare services for children and the disabled, and better meet the needs of the aging population and people facing difficulties.

In particular, they should take the initiative to enhance the benefits for those in need, and help them overcome practical difficulties.

The central authorities have urged the civil affairs departments to shift their focus from ensuring services for specific groups to groups in need of help, from focusing on material security to combining material assistance, social services and spiritual care, from enlarging the service scale to improving the service quality, from relying on government resources to playing up the roles of the market and society, from using traditional service methods to applying digital and other service methods.

These moves are all conducive to promoting the high-quality development of civil affairs work, and enhancing people's sense of gain, happiness and security.

All relevant departments should bear the bigger picture in mind, actively support and closely cooperate to provide strong support for civil affairs work. In the process, they should adhere to the people-centered approach and solve the most direct and practical concerns of the people.