It was learned from Guangzhou Working Meeting of Civil Administration held on January 11 that Guangzhou planed to fulfill 10 actual deeds of safeguarding and improving the people's livelihood this year. These actual deeds include the adjustment of the standard of urban residents' minimum security of living and the recognition standard of low-income families, the perfection of the living emergency aid system for urban residents with special difficulties, consummation of medical aid system for urban and rural people with low-solvency facing major diseases, speeding up the infrastructure construction of rural households enjoying the five guarantees supporting, carrying out "cure action to children with severe diseases", strengthening the welfare for the orphans and children with handicaps, advancing the community services to the elderly at home, speeding up the development of private funded social welfare institutions, strengthening the aid administration to the urban vagrants and beggars, and implementing energetically the charity donation activities.

Under the plan of "cure action to children with severe diseases", Guangzhou will raise funds through various channels to fund the operations and rehabilitation treatment to 100 children with severe diseases from the low income and low guaranteed families.

Guangzhou will carry out "Blue Sky Plan of Facility Construction of Children Welfare Institutions", raising funds to build a municipal level Children Welfare House, five "simulation families" and 2 "youth apartments".

In the respect of vagrants and beggars, this year Guangzhou will prepare and implement the Opinions on Establishment of Long-term Administration Mechanism of Vagrants and Beggars and the Opinions on Further Dealing Well with the Aid Work to the Severe Patients and Mental Patients among Urban Vagrants and Beggars, realizing basically the work target of no vagrant minors in central urban area and the "Safe Homing" plan targeted at the vagrant minors.

Editor: Yan