National Development and Reform Commission Director Zheng Zhejie: Work hard to stabilize the size of newborn population, strengthen fertility support incentives, and improve the mechanism for adapting education resources to population changes.

Director Zheng Zhongjie of the National Development and Reform Commission wrote an article in the "Seeking Truth" magazine titled "Advancing China's Modernization with High-Quality Implementation of the 15th Five-Year Plan". The article emphasizes the importance of ensuring and improving people's livelihoods. The five-year plan is not only a national matter but also a household matter. The outline of the plan adapts to new changes in the population situation and the new expectations of the people, advocating for efforts based on capabilities and proposing a series of practical measures to improve people's livelihoods. It emphasizes optimizing services for the elderly and the youth, stabilizing the size of the newborn population, strengthening support for childbirth, and improving the universal childcare system. It also aims to improve the elderly care service network, systematically promote the construction of institutional elderly care, community-based elderly care, and home care facilities, with a focus on the care of elderly people with dementia. In addition, it aims to enhance the education resource allocation mechanism in response to changes in the population, focusing on addressing the pressure of enrollment caused by fluctuations in the school-age population, with an emphasis on the construction of regular high schools and expanding high-quality undergraduate programs. Furthermore, it aims to promote employment and income growth through various channels, synchronizing the growth of residents' income with economic growth and the increase in labor compensation with labor productivity. The goal is to implement actions to stabilize job positions, enhance job quality, training programs under the slogan "skills brighten the future", and plans to increase incomes for urban and rural residents, gradually expanding the size of the middle-income group.