10 key projects selected to advance people's well-being

During the closing meeting of Shenzhen’s annual legislative meeting today, local lawmakers voted on 10 key projects aimed at enhancing people’s well-being for the year. These projects will guide the city government in improving the lives of its residents.

Chosen from a list of 12 candidate projects, the selected projects cover a wide range of areas of improving food safety supervision and guarantee, improving health-care services, increasing government-subsidized housing, enhancing basic education quality, creating a child-friendly environment, enhancing elderly care in communities, strengthening diversified employment, optimizing citizens’ travel experience, creating a trustworthy consumption environment, and expanding the coverage of NEV charging services.

“It’s glad to see that resident-focused fields, such as health care and employment have been selected, which signifies the city government's dedication to improving people's well-being,” lawmaker Liu Dequan said. He added that the chosen projects could propel the government to better serve its people.

Improve food safety supervision and guarantee 

完善食品安全监管保障

The city will continue to carry out the food safety assurance project, revise 100 standards for products under the Shenzhen Standard program, and increase 400 new products under the program.

Improve health-care services

优化医疗健康服务供给

The city will increase its medical facilities by adding 8,000 hospital beds, over 35 community health-care centers, and employing more than 500 general practitioners.

Increase govt.-subsidized housing

加强安居宜居保障

Shenzhen plans to construct 10,000 government-subsidized apartments and allocate 65,000 sets of housing.

Enhance basic education quality

推动基础教育扩优提质

Shenzhen will construct, refurbish, and expand 130 kindergartens, primary and middle schools, and offer 170,000 school admissions, namely 140,000 public primary and middle school admissions, 10,000 for public high schools, and 20,000 for kindergartens.

Create child-friendly environment

营造儿童成长友好环境

Shenzhen aims to establish classes for children 2 to 3 years old and increase the number of admissions by 22,000. Additionally, the city plans to build 40 nursery rooms in parks, and renovate and expand indoor and outdoor spaces for children's activities. The city aims that its child-friendly community reach 60%.

Enhance elderly care in communities

打造“十五分钟养老服务圈”

The city also seeks to promote social initiatives in elderly care services, by adding 800 beds in service institutes and establishing 23 elderly care service stations. Over 70% of the communities with an aging population will have access to elderly service stations.

Strengthen diversified employment

加强多元就业保障

The city plans to create a minimum of 180,000 job opportunities, offer employment guidance for new graduates, provide up to seven days of free accommodation for them, and provide skill training for 16,000 workers.

Optimize citizens’ travel experience 

优化市民出行体验

Efforts will be made to enhance the coordination between bus and Metro lines, optimize and adjust over 110 bus routes, standardize the renovation of over 100 old and simply equipped bus stops, and optimize the traffic routes for non-motorized vehicles throughout the city.

Create a trustworthy consumption environment 

营造放心消费环境

Efforts will be made to increase 2,500 new trustworthy consumption units and 1,500 stores that adopt prepaid digital RMB application in the city.

Expand the coverage of NEV charging services 

扩大新能源汽车充电服务覆盖

The city will strive to build 1,000 superchargers and 50,000 charging piles to enhance the convenience of charging facilities.