推进生态保护和建设。抓紧划定并严守生态保护红线。积极应对气候变化。启动森林质量提升、长江经济带重大生态修复、第二批山水林田湖生态保护工程试点，完成退耕还林还草1200万亩以上，加强荒漠化、石漠化治理，积累更多生态财富，构筑可持续发展的绿色长城。
We will move forward with ecological conservation and improvement.We will act promptly to set redlines for ecological conservation and hold firm to these lines. We will work actively to respond to climate change. We will begin to pilot projects to improve the quality of our forests and restore ecosystems along the Yangtze Economic Belt, and launch the second group of trial projects to conserve the ecosystems of mountains, forests, farmland, rivers, and lakes. We will turn more than 800,000 hectares of marginal farmland into forests or grassland. We will address the spread of desertification and stony deserts. These initiatives will enable us to accumulate more ecological wealth and build a green Great Wall of sustainable development.
（八）推进以保障和改善民生为重点的社会建设。民生是为政之要，必须时刻放在心头、扛在肩上。在当前国内外形势严峻复杂的情况下，更要优先保障和改善民生，该办能办的实事要竭力办好，基本民生的底线要坚决兜牢。
8. Promoting social development to ensure and improve the wellbeing of our people
The wellbeing of the people is at the center of governance; it must be always on our minds and the responsibility for it must never leave our shoulders. Against the backdrop of challenging and complex environments both at home and abroad, it is all the more imperative that we prioritize efforts to ensure and improve the wellbeing of our people, spare no effort to deliver benefit to them wherever possible, and ensure their basic living needs are met.
大力促进就业创业。完善就业政策，加大就业培训力度，加强对灵活就业、新就业形态的支持。今年高校毕业生795万人，再创历史新高，要实施好就业促进、创业引领、基层成长等计划，促进多渠道就业创业。落实和完善政策，切实做好退役军人安置工作。加大就业援助力度，扶持城镇困难人员、残疾人就业，确保零就业家庭至少有一人稳定就业。我们必须牢牢抓住就业这一民生之本，让人们在劳动中创造财富，在奋斗中实现人生价值。
We will strive to boost employment and business startups.We will improve employment policy, strengthen employment training, and increase support for flexible employment and new forms of employment.
This year, 7.95 million students will graduate from college, the highest number on record. We need to effectively implement initiatives to promote their employment, to guide them in starting businesses, and to encourage them to work at the community level, providing our college graduates with multiple channels to find jobs or start their own businesses. We will implement and improve policies and see that demobilized military personnel are settled into new jobs. We will step up employment assistance to help vulnerable urban residents and people with disabilities find employment and to ensure that at least one member in every family currently with zero employment secures a stable job.
Employment is crucial to ensuring people's wellbeing. We will focus our effort on facilitating employment to see that through their hard work, people can create wealth and realize their full potential.
办好公平优质教育。统一城乡义务教育学生“两免一补”政策，加快实现城镇义务教育公共服务常住人口全覆盖，持续改善薄弱学校办学条件，扩大优质教育资源覆盖面，不断缩小城乡、区域、校际办学差距。继续扩大重点高校面向贫困地区农村招生规模。提高博士研究生国家助学金补助标准。推进世界一流大学和一流学科建设。继续推动部分本科高校向应用型转变。深化高考综合改革试点。加快发展现代职业教育。加强民族教育，办好特殊教育、继续教育、学前教育和老年教育。支持和规范民办教育发展。加强教师队伍建设。制定实施《中国教育现代化2030》。我们要发展人民满意的教育，以教育现代化支撑国家现代化，使更多孩子成就梦想、更多家庭实现希望。
We will work to ensure that our people have access to equitable and quality education.We will combine the separate policies for rural and urban students receiving compulsory education that waive tuition and miscellaneous fees, supply free textbooks, and grant living allowances for boarders from financially disadvantaged families. We will make compulsory education accessible as a public service to all permanent urban residents, with and without local urban household registration. We will continue to improve conditions in badly built and poorly operated schools, and expand the reach of quality educational resources, so as to narrow the gap in the quality of education between urban and rural areas, different regions, and different schools.
We will continue to expand the enrollment of students from poor rural areas at key colleges and universities. We will increase government grants for PhD students. We will strengthen efforts to develop more world-class universities and first-class fields of discipline. We will continue to encourage some undergraduate institutions to shift their focus toward providing applied education.
