Good afternoon, everyone! Thank you very much for attending the press conference on the city's activities to help the centenarian.
In March last year, XX Municipal Office of the Committee on Aging and the Municipal Organs Working Committee, the Municipal Bureau of Civil Affairs *** with the initiation of the municipal organs of the party organizations in the city to carry out the activities of the pairing to help the centenarian activities, and has achieved remarkable results. Now the relevant information of this activity to all concerned, support the cause of aging and aging work of the leadership and comrades, as well as friends from all walks of life to be informed.
One, the background and motivation to carry out activities to help the centenarians
The city's existing centenarians more than 70, 80% live in rural areas, 30% live in remote mountainous areas, their tenacious vitality shocked the people, but most of their basic living, health care conditions are heartbreaking. How to help them improve their living conditions, how can we attract more people to pay attention to, care for the elderly group, is a problem we have been thinking about in recent years.
At the beginning of last year, in the municipal authorities to carry out the maintenance of **** the advanced education activities of the party members, we combined with the actual work of the elderly, put forward the program to carry out the activities of the pairing of centenarians to help.
Second, the main practice of carrying out the activities of twinning to help centenarians
February 23, the Municipal Office of the Elderly issued a "notice on the activities of caring for and financing centenarians", and together with comrades from the counties (districts) Office of the Elderly, the working committee of the organs and the Bureau of Civil Affairs, they visited more than 70 centenarians at home to gather and organize the living conditions of each one of them, their living habits, On March 21st, the Municipal Office for the Elderly, the Municipal Working Committee of Organs and the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau jointly issued the Lu City Office for the Elderly [2005] No. 6, "Notice on the Activity of Carrying out Twinning and Helping the Centenarians". Notice", so far, the pairing help centenarian activities in the municipal organs of the party organization in full swing.
Up to now, the Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department, the Municipal People's Consultative Conference, the Municipal Land and Resources Bureau and other 15 units or party organizations, the city's tobacco branch of four individuals, four business owners voluntarily signed up with 23 centenarians into helping pairs. They brought cash, clothing, nutrition, etc. deep into the remote rural areas, visit the centenarians, some funding to support the centenarian family to develop farming, some in front of the centenarian home planting respect for the elderly tree, some monthly for the centenarian living allowance, medical expenses, some for the centenarians to send wheelchairs, hearing aids. City South Shoushan Cemetery Management Office and branch party members and Xuyong County Zhendong Township Lin Bao village Hmong centenarian gold into a pair of help, for the elderly to send a 25-inch color TV, every month to the elderly living allowance of 100 yuan, but also *** with a contribution of 5,000 yuan to the elderly to build a new house. Their caring actions in the local Miao Autonomous Village spread as a good story. City Tobacco Branch Party Secretary Ye Lihua to the town of Hejiang County Foyin, walking more than three hours on the mountain road, into the village of Bai Au gully centenarian Liu Sheng Ying's home, when he saw the old man dressed in thin, Ye Lihua immediately took off his own clothes for the old man to wear, moved the old man's family and the presence of people with tears in their eyes.
Living in the rural centenarian, there are 45 households of human and animal drinking water is extremely difficult to drink for generations is the corner of the field water, rainwater, digging their own wells, and some have to go far away to pick water, water quality is not good, unhygienic. In July last year, the city land and resources bureau director Wu Fuzhao learned of this situation, and the bureau party group decided to study, free of charge for these elderly people to drill wells, purchase, install water supply equipment, and in the form of documents will be drilling wells task down to the county, district land and resources bureau. Here, I am very happy to tell you that these 45 old people who have experienced the vicissitudes of a century, have now all drank safe and hygienic tap water.
Third, the effectiveness of the activities of twinning to help centenarians
Since the launch of the activities of twinning to help centenarians, 53 elderly people have been helped to varying degrees, the rate of help reached 88%, a preliminary estimate, equivalent to about 80,000 yuan of funds used to help centenarians action. Centenarians and their children and grandchildren have felt the warmth of the party and the government from the caring action, feel the harmonious society on earth.
The city's activities to help centenarians in pairs is the first of its kind in the country, and has been reported in China Older People's Newspaper, Sichuan Evening News, Sichuan Older People's Newspaper, Sichuan Older People's Newspaper, XX Daily, XX People's Radio, XX Municipal Television Station, XX Radio and Television Newspaper, XX Telephone Information Newspaper, and other media, and web sites. XX Evening News opened the column of "Pairing up and giving a walking stick to the centenarian" for full tracking reports. According to incomplete statistics, in the activities carried out over a period of nine months, the total number of media reports up to more than 60 times, to promote the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation to respect the elderly and help the elderly, and to create a social atmosphere in which the whole society is concerned about helping the elderly has had a very good effect. It has become a highlight of building a harmonious XX.
Every family has an old man, everyone will be old, respect for the elderly to help the elderly is the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, care for the elderly, is the obligation of every citizen. Accounting for 13% of the city's total population of the elderly is a large social group, they are an important part of a harmonious society. The implementation of assistance to the elderly special difficulties, the establishment of a regardless of age, everyone **** enjoy the society, is one of the main elements of building a harmonious society. I would like to take this opportunity, on behalf of more than 70 centenarians and their families, on behalf of the city's 600,000 elderly people, to help the centenarians to solve the difficulties of drinking water to the Municipal Bureau of Land and Resources, to all the voluntary enrollment in the activities of the centenarians to help the pairing of units, individuals, and social forces to express my heartfelt thanks! "Everyone honors the elderly, the world is a better place." We call on more units and individuals to participate in the action of caring for the elderly, with love and filial piety, to build a harmonious XX to make positive contributions.
Below I will announce to the society the list of units and individuals who voluntarily signed up to participate in the activity of pairing up to help centenarians and express my gratitude to them again. They are:
XX Municipal Propaganda Department, Municipal People's Consultative Conference Office, Municipal Organs Working Committee, Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau, Municipal Office for the Elderly, Municipal Land and Resources Bureau, Municipal Bureau of Transportation, Municipal Agricultural Machinery Bureau, Municipal Political and Legal Affairs Bureau, Municipal Investment Promotion Bureau, Municipal Broadcasting and Television Bureau, Municipal Water Resources Bureau, Municipal Sanitation three, Municipal Land Development and Finishing Center, Nanshoushan Cemetery Management Office of the Party Branch, the Municipal Tobacco Branch (Wu Chunqui, Ye Lihua, Zeng Tao, Jia Xiaoling four people to help each one of the centenarians), XX Feiyang culture communication company manager Wang Fei, Songyue Ecological Park responsible person Peng Xueping, XX Anjie Resources Development Limited Zheng Wei, Tingting skin museum manager Zheng Ping.
The briefing is over, thank you.
Title: Municipal Office for the Elderly Director in the pairing to help centenarians activities at the press conference