What they say
Authorities need to focus on some key sectors and populations to ensure stable employment. Current Sino-US trade tensions and the global economic slowdown will inevitably affect employment in enterprises engaged in foreign trade, and university graduates are having difficulty securing jobs as they exceed market demand. Machines are becoming more intelligent and replacing manual labor in many sectors, particularly in agriculture. Firms with excess capacity are facing shutdowns which adds more pressure to low and medium-skilled laborers in job hunting. Therefore, policies ensuring stable
employment should target key sectors and groups of people, including foreign trade enterprises, firms with excess capacity, traditional industrial bases, resource-based areas, as well as migrant workers, manual laborers and university graduates.
Wang Yiming,
vice-president of the State Council Development Research Center 2025, bringing about a need for more eldercare services. To tackle the issue, more professional home-based services should be provided, including at-home nursing, senior-friendly home furnishings and at-home hospital beds. A longterm care insurance system should also be established to help ease seniors’ financial burdens. Local communities can play bigger roles in supporting eldercare by offering more convenient daytime or short-term care services, meal preparation, first aid and entertainment. An evaluation system of eldercare institutions is also necessary to standardize services, and more professional personnel teams need to be formed by strengthening relevant vocational training.
Chen Bailing,
director of the research department of the China National Democratic Construction Association
The Belt and
Road Initiative, which aspires to boost global cooperation and mutual benefit, has become a stage for overseas
Chinese to play an expanded role. We should give full play to the advantages of the scale of the overseas Chinese population and business networks in countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative. Overseas Chinese should participate in the construction of important infrastructure, industrial parks and other cooperation projects involved in the BRI. We should introduce the benthe
efits brought by the BRI to mainstream society and residents of involved countries. Overseas Chinese should also better tell the story of China so as to enhance understanding by foreigners and promote cooperation between China and involved countries.
Li Zhuobin,
vice-chairman of the Central Committee of China Zhi Gong Dang future. The government should bear the responsibility of punishing “Taiwan independence” separatists. The psychological barrier for our compatriots in Taiwan in balking at reunification is not due to a lack of blood and cultural ties with the mainland, but a lack of legal ties with the People’s Republic of China. It is believed that in the near future, the central government will be able to identify more clearly the legal status of Taiwan residents as “Chinese citizens”.
a researcher at the Research Centre for Contemporary Chinese Culture, Chinese University of Hong Kong
The government of the People’s Republic of China is the only legitimate government of China, a fact that is of utmost importance in the process of cross-Straits reunification.
The only legitimate government of China should uphold the principle of “one country, one constitution, one central government and one army” in peaceful cross-Straits consultations in
Ling Yu-shih,