The sound of the two sessions | Sun Jie, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference: It is recommended to strengthen the central authority in the national overall planning of pension insurance

Sun Jie, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and professor of the Insurance College of the University of International Business and Economics, will bring a number of proposals during this year's two sessions. In a proposal on the national overall planning of endowment insurance, Sun Jie proposed that the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan" is the best and final time window for the implementation of national overall planning of endowment insurance, and it is now a critical period to step up the formulation of specific plans and prepare for implementation. However, the current lack of clarity in the powers and financial powers of governments at all levels in China will restrict the implementation and promotion of the national overall planning of pension insurance. To this end, she suggested that the central authorities should be strengthened in the national overall planning of pension insurance, and the common powers of the central government and the local government should be reduced and standardized.

In the proposal, Sun Jie said that there are problems in the division system of the central government of pension insurance in terms of financing norms and treatment norms. These institutional deficiencies may lead to, on the one hand, the policy of regional differences triggering the masses to compete with each other, resulting in social instability; on the other hand, in the context of central subsidies and adjustments, some places deliberately "low in and high out" to increase the risk of imbalance in the income and expenditure of the fund.

To this end, she proposed that no matter what kind of management system and institutional establishment plan is adopted, the national co-ordination of the pension insurance fund must strengthen the political, organizational and technical measures.

The first is to strengthen the party's leadership and standardize the powers of governments at all levels, including unifying thinking, implementing policy decisions, knowing people and doing good job responsibilities, evaluating political performance, and strictly rewarding and punishing them. The second is to strengthen organizational construction, improve the efficiency of public services, focus on strengthening the construction of management institutions at the central and provincial levels, unify the designation of names, establishments, posts, quotas, responsibilities, and funds, and the participation of backbone personnel in public administration; the grass-roots units implement integrated operation of the grid format, and their staff members implement the teller system and the labor contract system; and outsource non-core business through government procurement of services. The third is to build a high-level national social security information system from top to bottom.

In terms of specific central and provincial local powers, Sun Jie said in the proposal that the central powers that need to be upheld and strengthened mainly include: designing a unified system, formulating basic policy standards, compiling a national fund budget, collecting basic pension insurance premiums for enterprise employees, allocating and subsidizing funds to the province and supervising the operation, standardizing the national handling process and guiding the implementation, and handling the inter-provincial renewal of social security relations and corresponding funds.

At the same time, the main powers of provincial-level localities are: to implement the national unified system, policies, standards, and processes, to prepare the provincial fund budget, to transfer funds to the central government in accordance with regulations, to allocate funds to the lower level and supervise the operation, to handle the renewal of social security relations and corresponding funds in the provinces and regions, and to guide the management services of the lower levels. Reduce the power of local governments to formulate policies and standards, and focus on strengthening their implementation.