Policy at a glance
- The State Council issued the Decision on Adjusting and Improving the Administrative Catalogue of Industrial Product Production Licenses.
- The General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Innovating and Improving Institutional Mechanisms to Promote the Standardized and Healthy Development of the Bidding and Bidding Market".
- Continue the policy of reducing unemployment insurance premiums to 1% in stages until the end of 2025.
- The period of advance collection of pension service fees shall not exceed 12 months.
- Starting from the spring semester of 2024, the national basic standard of living allowance for boarding students from economically disadvantaged families will be raised, and the average annual student will be increased from 1,000 yuan to 1,250 yuan for primary schools and from 1,250 yuan to 1,500 yuan for junior high schools.
- By the end of 2025, the number of intensive care beds (including comprehensive ICU beds and specialized ICU beds) will reach 15 per 100,000 people.
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The State Council issued the "Decision on Adjusting and Improving the Management Catalogue of Industrial Product Production Licenses"
The State Council recently issued the "Decision on Adjusting and Improving the Management Catalogue of Industrial Product Production Licenses". The "Decision" proposes to implement industrial product production license management for six products, including cold-rolled ribbed steel bars, bottled liquefied petroleum gas regulators, wire ropes, plywood, blockboards, and safety helmets. After the adjustment, a total of 14 categories and 27 varieties of products under the management of industrial product production licenses shall be implemented by the provincial industrial product production license authorities, and the relevant examination and approval authority shall not be delegated. At the same time, the approval method of fertilizer production license has been adjusted from notification and commitment to "first verify and then certificate" for approval.
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The State Office issued a document! About the release of blockbuster documents on the bidding market
A few days ago, the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Innovating and Improving the System and Mechanism to Promote the Standardized and Healthy Development of the Bidding and Bidding Market". The "Opinions" put forward seven policy measures. The first is to improve the bidding and bidding system. Optimize the design of systems and rules, and strengthen the coordination and convergence of laws and policies. The second is to implement the main responsibility of the tenderer. Strengthen the main position of the tenderer, improve the service mechanism of the bidding agency, and promote the innovation of the bidding and procurement mechanism. The third is to improve the evaluation and calibration mechanism. Improve the bid evaluation method and evaluation mechanism, optimize the procedure for determining the winning bidder, and strengthen the full-cycle management of bid evaluation experts. Fourth, promote digital and intelligent transformation and upgrading. Accelerate the promotion of the application of digital intelligence technology, and optimize the electronic bidding and bidding platform system. Fifth, strengthen coordinated and efficient supervision and management. Consolidate the responsibilities of administrative supervision departments, strengthen multi-level and three-dimensional supervision, and accelerate the promotion of smart supervision. Sixth, create a standardized and orderly market environment. We will severely crack down on illegal activities in bidding and bidding, and continue to clean up regulations and practices that hinder the construction of a unified national market and fair competition. Seventh, improve the efficiency of bidding and bidding policies. Improve the incentive mechanism to support innovation, optimize the promotion and application mechanism of green bidding and procurement, and improve the policy system to support the participation of small and medium-sized enterprises.
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The State Council issued the 2024 Legislative Work Plan of the State Council
The General Office of the State Council recently issued the "2024 Legislative Work Plan of the State Council". The Legislative Plan of the State Council resolutely implements the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, and guarantees the overall work of the Party and the country with high-quality legislative services. First, focusing on promoting high-quality development, the draft law on the promotion of private economy and the draft amendment to the law on tendering and bidding, formulating regulations on fair competition review, and revising regulations on ensuring payment of small and medium-sized enterprises; The second is to focus on strengthening the construction of the government itself, listing the draft amendments to the Statistics Law, and revising the regulations on the filing of laws and regulations; Third, focusing on the implementation of the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education and strengthening the country through culture, the draft revision of the Law on the Popularization of Science and Technology is listed, and the regulations on the protection and inheritance of red resources are formulated, and the regulations on the protection of new plant varieties are revised. Fourth, focusing on improving people's livelihood and well-being, the draft law on responding to public health emergencies has been set out, and urban public transportation regulations and housing rental regulations have been formulated. Fifth, focusing on promoting green development, the draft law on national parks is listed, and regulations on the protection of ancient and famous trees are formulated. Sixth, focusing on improving the national security rule of law system, the draft revision of the Prison Law is listed, and regulations on the management of network data security are formulated; Seventh, focusing on strengthening the construction of foreign-related rule of law, the draft amendments to the Arbitration Law, the draft amendments to the Anti-Money Laundering Law, and the draft amendments to the Maritime Law are listed. At the same time, the "Legislative Plan of the State Council" also makes general arrangements for legislative projects such as comprehensively deepening reforms, changing government functions, urgently needing national security, and speeding up the modernization of national defense and the armed forces.
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Continue the policy of reducing unemployment insurance premiums to 1% in stages until the end of 2025
The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and other three departments jointly issued the Notice on Extending the Implementation of the Policy of Unemployment Insurance to Assist Enterprises in Stabilizing Jobs. The "Notice" clearly continues to implement three policy measures to benefit enterprises and people. First, in terms of burden reduction, the policy of reducing unemployment insurance premiums to 1% in stages will be continued until the end of 2025. Second, in terms of stabilizing jobs, the insured enterprises that do not lay off employees and reduce layoffs will continue to implement the policy of returning stable jobs until the end of 2024, and the return rate of small, medium and micro enterprises shall not exceed 60% of the unemployment insurance premiums actually paid by the enterprise and its employees in the previous year, and the refund ratio of large enterprises shall not exceed 30%; The use of funds has been expanded from the current four expenditures for job stabilization to the expenditure on reducing production and operation costs; Social groups, foundations, social service organizations, law firms, accounting firms, and individual industrial and commercial households participating in insurance in the form of units are to be implemented by reference. Third, in terms of skill upgrading, we will continue to relax the subsidy policy for skill upgrading, expand the scope of benefits until the end of 2024, and issue skill upgrading subsidies to insured employees or those receiving unemployment insurance benefits who have paid for insurance for one year and have obtained vocational qualification certificates or vocational skill level certificates.
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When it comes to the e-bike industry, the latest requirements →
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other three departments jointly issued the "Electric Bicycle Industry Standard Conditions" and the "Electric Bicycle Industry Standard Announcement Management Measures". The "Normative Conditions" is formulated in accordance with the principles of rational layout, quality assurance, innovation and upgrading, and safe production, and is divided into 9 parts and 31 articles, including enterprise layout, process equipment, product quality and management, intelligent manufacturing and green manufacturing, safety production, protection of workers' rights and interests, consumer rights and interests, supervision and management, and supplementary provisions. The "Administrative Measures" are divided into 5 parts and 17 articles, including general provisions, application conditions, application review and announcement procedures, supervision and management, and supplementary provisions.
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Seven departments jointly issued a document to strengthen the supervision of prepaid fees for pension institutions
Recently, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and other seven departments jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Strengthening the Supervision of Advance Fees for Elderly Care Institutions" to standardize the advance fees of elderly care institutions and protect the legitimate rights and interests of the elderly. The "Opinions" put forward that the provincial civil affairs department can determine the maximum advance collection period and the maximum deposit amount of the local pension service fee in conjunction with the relevant departments according to the local situation, but the maximum period of advance collection of the pension service fee shall not exceed 12 months, and the deposit charged for a single elderly person shall not exceed 12 times the monthly bed fee of the elderly. For the advance fees that meet the refund conditions agreed in the service agreement, the pension institution shall refund the fee in a timely manner in accordance with the agreement, and shall not refuse or delay. Where the elderly have not yet been admitted to the institution to receive services and propose to terminate the service agreement, the pension institution shall promptly refund the advance fee. The Opinions will come into force on October 1, 2024 and will be valid for 5 years.
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Benefiting more than 20 million students across the country! The standard of this subsidy has been raised
The Ministry of Finance recently allocated 158.2 billion yuan to guide and support local governments to further consolidate and improve the mechanism for ensuring the funding of compulsory education in urban and rural areas, with emphasis on rural areas. The first is to raise the standard of living allowance for students from economically disadvantaged families. From the spring semester of 2024, the national basic standard of living allowance for boarding students with financial difficulties will be raised, and the average annual student will be increased from 1,000 yuan to 1,250 yuan for primary schools and from 1,250 yuan to 1,500 yuan for junior high schools; The standard of living allowance for non-boarders with financial difficulties continues to be approved at 50% of the national basic standard for living allowance for boarders. It is estimated that more than 20 million students across the country will receive living allowances. The second is to increase subsidies for the maintenance and renovation of rural school buildings. The third is to support the acceleration of the completion of shortcomings. Through the substitution of awards and subsidies, we will support local governments in implementing the policy of living subsidies for rural teachers, and accelerate the improvement of the conditions for running rural boarding schools.
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69.446 billion yuan! The three departments issued the 2024 student financial aid subsidy
The Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security issued the Notice on Issuing the 2024 Student Financial Aid Subsidy Budget, which will be used to implement the national student financial aid policy for general high schools, secondary vocational education, and higher education. According to the "Notice", about 4.9 billion yuan will be issued this time, plus 64.546 billion yuan issued in advance, and the total budget for student financial assistance in 2024 will be 69.446 billion yuan.
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The "Opinions on Strengthening the Capacity Building of Critical Care Medical Services" was issued
Eight departments, including the National Health Commission, issued the "Opinions on Strengthening the Capacity Building of Critical Medical Services". The "Opinions" put forward that by the end of 2025, the number of intensive care beds (including comprehensive ICU beds and specialized ICU beds) in the country will reach 15 per 100,000 people, the number of convertible intensive care beds will reach 10 per 100,000 people, and the ratio of comprehensive ICU beds in relevant medical institutions will reach 1:0.8, and the bed-to-nurse ratio will reach 1:3. By the end of 2027, the number of intensive care beds nationwide will reach 18 per 100,000 people, and the number of convertible intensive care beds will reach 12 per 100,000 people.