GOOD CHILD CARE
Good child care is related to the future of every family and the city. With an orientation of universal welfare, Shenzhen propels quality care for children. Shenzhen has explored and formed a construction model of nursery institutions which are guided by State-owned enterprises, integrate healthcare with education, are financed either by private companies with governmental subsidies or by the government and operated by private enterprises. Parents also provide support for the institutions that are an integral part of nursery houses and kindergartens.
So far, there have been more than 700 nursery institutions, covering over 90% of the city's subdistricts.
So far, there are approximately 590,000 children in more than 1,900 kindergartens in the city. Public kindergartens account for 55% of the total number of kindergartens.
PREMIUM EDUCATION
Shenzhen has always adhered to the strategy that education is a top development priority, fully promoting the "large-scale school construction plan," achieving leap-forward development of higher education, and forming a "Shenzhen model" for vocational education.
During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the average annual growth rate of government budgetary spending on education was 24.5%.
The general public budget education expenditure accounted for 27.8% of the city's general public budget expenditure.
REWARD FOR WORKERS
Shenzhen is committed to creating more and higher-quality employment opportunities, continuously upgrading the employment priority policies and striving to enable laborers to do decent work and achieve all-round development.
12.55 million people were employed in Shenzhen in 2023.
Shenzhen has achieved the goal of safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of laborers, and the city's protection of wages with its insolvency fund provided timely relief of 58.5 million yuan, benefiting 4,350 people.
MEDICAL CARE
Shenzhen places people's health as a strategic priority and continues to increase investment in health with the main objectives of "making up shortcomings, strengthening grassroots, building modern facilities and promoting health."
Currently, there are more than 5,200 medical institutions in the city, including 169 hospitals, of which 32 are Grade A tertiary hospitals.
Eight hospitals in Shenzhen have been included in the top 100 list in national public hospital performance assessments of similar hospitals.
ELDERLY CARE
Shenzhen continues to improve the top-level design of elderly care services, and actively promotes the construction of an integrated medical, recreational and elderly services system to achieve full coverage of health care services for the elderly.
"1336" elderly care service system: Shenzhen aims to build a city-wide unified intelligent senior care service management platform; uniting the power of three parties ‒ government, society and family; provide three kinds of services: basic government protection, home community linkage and institutional professional care; and strengthen services at six levels: city, district, subdistrict, community, neighborhood and family.
Medical institutions at all levels open 100% of green channels for the elderly. All elderly care institutions provide various medical and health services for the elderly.
ASSISTANCE FOR THE VULNERABLE
Shenzhen promotes the establishment of a tiered and classified assistance system with special social assistance and emergency social assistance as the main body which is supported by social forces.
Shenzhen has issued 56.24 million yuan in aid as of August 2023, benefiting 4,241 people in need.
HOUSING
To ensure citizens live and work in happiness, Shenzhen has implemented a large-scale housing construction plan, continuing to strengthen housing security as well as service support in education, transportation, and health care.
During the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), Shenzhen will build and offer 740,000 units of subsidized housing apartments (rooms), 100% of which will be built using assembly-type construction methods and featuring high-grade "Shenzhen quality".