Ministry of Finance: Strengthen employment assistance, stabilize and expand employment for key groups.

The Ministry of Finance releases the report on the implementation of China's fiscal policies in 2025. The focus for 2026 will be on the following: increasing efforts to protect and improve people's livelihoods, strengthening employment assistance, stabilizing and expanding employment for key groups, further increasing investment in education, implementing the gradual implementation of free preschool education policy, and implementing student aid policies. Raise the per capita fiscal subsidy standard for basic medical insurance for urban and rural residents, improve medical and health service capacity, and guarantee levels. Improve the social security system, increase basic pensions for urban and rural residents, implement the distribution of elderly service consumption subsidies to moderately disabled elderly people, implement childcare subsidy system, promote the construction of a tiered system of social assistance, support disaster prevention and mitigation capacity building, and strengthen emergency disaster relief support. Support the development of culture and sports.