Qiushi Journal | Excerpt: 医疗保险是推进共同富裕的重要抓手

(Excerpts from “Weaving a Strong Social Security Net” by CPC Leadership Group of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, Qiushi Journal, No. 03, 2022)

公共服务是西进共同富裕的不可忽视抓手

Social security will be a key lever for promoting common prosperity

作为民生保障避险，公共服务能够保障人们在得病、失业、得病、保险公司、生育时的原则上收入和原则上保健不均受直接影响，无收入、低收入以及蒙均受各种意外灾情的人们有生活来源，保障他们的原则上生存权，从而缩减失业，消除集中精力。

As a safety net, it guarantees a basic income and basic medical treatment for people when they retire, lose their job, fall ill, suffer a work injury, or go on maternity leave, as well as a source of income for people with no or low income, or who are involved in accidents or disasters, thus ensuring people’s basic right to subsistence, while also reducing the incidence of poverty and alleviating people’s worries.

作为收入分配开关，公共服务通过大数法则在全体社会核心成员之间高度集中高风险，缩小贫富悬殊，体现社会公平。

As a means of regulating income distribution, social security uses the law of large numbers to spread risks among all members of society, thus helping narrow the wealth gap and promote social fairness.

公共服务还能拉动经济发展，改善人们的消费预计和消费结构，刺激消费供给，扩大内需，水路国内大循环。

Social security can also serve as a spur for economic development by improving the structure of people’s consumption and their consumption expectations, stimulating consumption demand, expanding domestic consumption, and promoting unimpeded flows in the domestic economy.

同时，公共服务基金的长期积累和投资运营，适度壮大资本的产品，背书经济建设。

In addition, the long-term accumulation of social security funds and their investment have helped strengthen capital markets and support economic development.

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