The two cities of Nanjing and Suzhou in our province have been assessed as “the first batch of experimental reforms for home-based and community-based retirement care in the country”.

Recently, the Ministry of Finance issued the “Circular on Release of Award Funds for the First Batch of Pilot Area Reforms for Home-based and Community-based Old-age Care Services” to inform the first batch of central government financial support for the implementation of the annual performance appraisal of home- and community-based endowment service pilot work.A total of 5 cities in the 26 pilot cities have achieved outstanding performance, and both the cities of Nanjing and Suzhou in our province have been rated outstanding.In order to encourage outstanding regions to continue to strengthen reforms and innovations and play a typical model role, the Ministry of Finance also awards 2 million yuan in rewarding cities for outstanding performance.

In recent years, our province has made home and community endowment work a top priority. It has persisted in policy guidance, grasped demand orientation, increased capital investment, implemented demonstrations, established an elderly care information network, and promoted the standardization of old-age care services.The extensive participation of social forces and other measures have greatly improved the ability of elderly communities to provide services for the elderly.The service content expanded from the basic needs of domestic help and help to spiritual comfort, spiritual comfort, etc. The trend of community socialization, specialization, and informationization in the community at home was more pronounced.Not only has it effectively met the needs of elderly care services for the elderly, it has also provided better preconditions for the “National pilot reforms for home and community care services”.