1. On Guaranteeing and Improving the People's Basic Standard of Living
Liu Shaoqi pointed out that the living standard of the working people in China is still very low and poor, and that "they urgently need to raise their standard of living and to lead an affluent and cultured life. This is the greatest demand and hope of the greatest number of people in the country, and also the most basic task that the Chinese ****-producing Party and the people's government are striving to realize. In order to meet "the greatest demands and hopes of the greatest number of people in the country" and to accomplish this "most basic task", the most fundamental thing is to restore and develop production.
2. On employment, relief, old age and social assistance
Employment is the basis of people's livelihood. As a result of the long reign of imperialism and feudalism, which created a state of social and economic abnormality, old China was left with a vast pool of unemployed. "After the victory of the revolution, the whole old socio-economic structure is being reorganized in various degrees, and the number of unemployed people has increased again."
3. On the development of culture and education
The ideas put forward by the Party and the government at that time mainly answered the question of "what kind of culture and education to build, and how to build such a culture and education".
In September 1949, the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) passed the "Platform of the ****tong", which clearly stated that The cultural education of the People's Republic of China is a new democracy, i.e., national, scientific and popular culture and education", and "the educational method of the People's Republic of China is to be consistent with theory and practice.
4. On the development of medical care, health and sports
Mao Zedong emphasized that "importance must be attached to hygiene, epidemic prevention and medical care", and that "the Central Committee considers the lack of attention paid by the Party committees at all levels to hygiene, epidemic prevention and medical care in general to be a major shortcoming in the work of the Party which must be corrected. be corrected. In the future, health, epidemic prevention and general medical work must be regarded as a major political task, and great efforts must be made to develop this work. ...... At least health work should be regarded on a par with disaster relief and prevention, and health work should never be slighted."
Expanded:
On the whole, it seems that in the early days of the founding of new China, the Party and the government attached great importance to solving the problem of people's livelihoods, and put forward a number of ideological ideas shining with the light of truth, and actively put them into practice, making remarkable achievements and accumulating rich experience. The achievements made have laid a solid foundation for the consolidation of the newborn people's power and the expansion of the people's recognition and support for the Party;
The experience accumulated has provided useful historical reference for us to carry out the spirit of the 18th National Congress in depth today, and to continue to strengthen safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods from a new historical starting point; and the brilliant ideas formed are the valuable spiritual wealth of the Party and the government for the construction of people's livelihoods. The spirit of the wealth.
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