How will the future community pension be transformed?

A few days ago, Blue Sky Society, the operating organization of Yikang Hospital in Pingshan District, won the second national advanced collective of "Respect for the Elderly and Civilization". Five years ago, Pingshan District took the lead in the socialization reform of public pension institutions in the city, realizing a new model of "public private and entrusted management", and now it has finally achieved fruitful results.

In recent years, the aging rate in China has been accelerating. By the end of 20 15, the number of elderly people over 60 had reached 220 million, accounting for about 16% of the total population. As the city with the youngest average age in China, Shenzhen not only needs to take precautions on the issue of providing for the aged, but also can and should make active explorations in this respect.

In July last year, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the National Development and Reform Commission officially issued the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for the Development of Civil Affairs", which clearly and comprehensively established a multi-level old-age service system based on home, relying on community, supplementing institutions and combining medical care, and increasing the supply of old-age services and products, among which the reform of public old-age care institutions has attracted much attention.

In fact, apart from the empty nest, disabled and semi-disabled elderly who continue to be provided with free or low-cost services by government-sponsored pension institutions, it should be the general trend for other pension services to be market-oriented and socialized and market-oriented. What the government should do is to provide financial subsidies and preferential tax policies, establish a moderately orderly market competition mechanism, and continuously improve the resource allocation efficiency and service quality of the aged care service.

How to ensure the public and private nature of old-age care institutions is a topic of great concern. The specific practice of Pingshan is to divide the responsibilities of the government and institutions and put forward the operating mechanism of "principal responsibility system under the supervision of the management Committee" In addition to organizing and calling on government units, social organizations, enterprises and other forces to participate, we also strengthen supervision and assessment, and conduct performance appraisal on operating institutions every year, linking rewards and punishments with services, so that they can always operate on a standardized track.

Next, Pingshan and Shenzhen can make more beneficial attempts in actively building a diversified pension service system, guiding social capital into the pension service industry, and promoting the transformation and upgrading of community pension. Of course, it is worth mentioning that the old-age care institutions, like hospitals and schools, are originally public welfare. No matter how it is reformed, its public welfare color cannot be erased.