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expanded to cover people with serious illnesses or severe disabilities from
low-income households, and assistance was provided to people facing financial

difficulty. Subsidies and living allowances for entitled groups were increased by
approximately 10%, and funds were allocated to offer a one-off living subsidy to
veteran Party members. We also provided assistance for the renovation of 56,000

old urban residential communities.
Improving the public cultural service system

We supported projects to develop a digital public culture, to ensure access to
radio and television in all households, and to put on non-profit traditional Chinese

opera performances, and helped more than 50,000 museums and libraries offer free
admission. We supported public fitness programs and major sports events. We

strengthened funding safeguards to support Team China’s preparations for the
Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, and vigorously backed Beijing’s hosting of
the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Strengthening natural disaster prevention, mitigation, and relief work

We improved the emergency response system, and saw to it that funds for
natural disaster relief and aid were immediately allocated. We supported Henan,
Shanxi, and Shaanxi in efforts to assist disaster victims, restore agricultural

production, and carry out post-disaster recovery and reconstruction. We backed
the development of key projects for enhancing local capacity for natural disaster
prevention and mitigation, carried out a comprehensive survey of natural disaster

risks across the country, and supported efforts to translate technologies and
equipment for natural disaster prevention into engineering applications.

 We provided support for rural and agricultural initiatives, and advanced
implementation of the coordinated regional development strategies.

Aligning efforts to consolidate and build upon our achievements in the battle against
poverty with those to promote rural revitalization
We kept major assistance policies unchanged and continued to increase the

central government follow-up rural revitalization assistance fund, channeling
greater support to 160 key counties designated to receive such assistance. Trials for

integrated and coordinated use of government funds for rural development were
continued in 832 counties that have been lifted out of poverty. Regular assistance
to low-income rural residents was enhanced to forestall a large-scale relapse into

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