Su Pei, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Civil Affairs Bureau of Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, published an article titled "Promoting Resonance between Civil Affairs and Urban Development" in China Social Daily, which mentioned:

Guangzhou, Guangdong Province has a large population base, good livelihood foundation, and strong economic support, providing excellent conditions and solid foundation for promoting the coordinated and integrated development of the economy and people's livelihood.

Guangzhou Civil Affairs has taken the initiative to implement the national strategy of actively responding to population aging, continuously polishing the "Guangzhou style elderly care" service brand, focusing on promoting the coordinated development of elderly care and industry, and striving to explore a path of actively responding to population aging with Guangzhou characteristics.

In terms of serving the elderly, Guangzhou will adhere to using the elderly care industry to drive the elderly care industry, and using the elderly care industry to support the elderly care industry. It will also host the China (Guangzhou) International Elderly Care and Health Industry Expo, continue to enhance the "Lehuo Yangcheng" Silver Age Market brand, and cultivate new economic growth points in addressing people's livelihood concerns.

The original text is as follows

Promote resonance between civil affairs and urban development

Su Pei, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Civil Affairs Bureau of Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province

Guangzhou, Guangdong Province has a large population base, good livelihood foundation, and strong economic support, providing excellent conditions and solid foundation for promoting the coordinated and integrated development of the economy and people's livelihood. As an important livelihood security department, the civil affairs department is responsible for people's livelihood affairs such as "one old and one young", "one red and one white", which is an indispensable part of promoting Chinese path to modernization. In recent years, the civil affairs system in Guangzhou has deeply studied and implemented the important speeches and instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping's inspection of Guangdong, as well as his important discourse on civil affairs work. It has accurately grasped the rich connotations, spiritual essence, and practical requirements contained therein, consciously shouldered political and historical responsibilities, and resolutely advanced in the direction guided by General Secretary Xi Jinping, injecting solid civil affairs strength into the modernization construction of Guangzhou.

Support the bottom line and provide precise assistance

Support the disadvantaged groups with a 'sky'

Guangzhou Civil Affairs has always shown meticulous care, weaving and strengthening the basic livelihood security network, and firmly supporting the bottom line of people's livelihood in this city. Innovatively creating a "diversified joint assistance" assistance model, establishing a list of 23 social assistance and benefit items with Guangzhou characteristics, and building 67 "Sui Jiu Yi · Joint Assistance Spaces", providing comprehensive assistance and support to more than 130000 people, achieving precise, diversified, and convenient assistance services. During the 14th Five Year Plan period, the urban and rural subsistence allowance standards in the city increased by 21.2%, and the basic living security standards for orphans and children without factual support increased by 15.78%. The quality of life for disadvantaged groups continued to improve.

In terms of serving disadvantaged groups, Guangzhou will continue to make efforts and work hard for a long time to further deepen the reform of social assistance in the service sector, comprehensively implement the integrated service of "assisting one thing", deepen the "diversified assistance" assistance model, and promote the improvement, efficiency, and expansion of the "Sui Jiuyi · Co Assistance Space" comprehensive assistance service platform; Continuously strengthen the care and assistance for migrant children, left behind children, and disadvantaged children, improve dynamic monitoring mechanisms, constantly polish the service brands of "heartwarming and caring for children" and "Sui Ai Tong Xing", and safeguard the healthy growth of minors; Establish and improve the system of care and support services for severely disabled persons, deepen the "Integration of Health and Wellness Action", and effectively safeguard the bottom line of people's livelihoods, so that every person in need can truly feel the warmth and kindness of Guangzhou.

Technology empowers and supports the economy

Promote the dual synergy of the elderly care industry

Guangzhou Civil Affairs has taken the initiative to implement the national strategy of actively responding to population aging, continuously polishing the "Guangzhou style elderly care" service brand, focusing on promoting the coordinated development of elderly care and industry, and striving to explore a path of actively responding to population aging with Guangzhou characteristics. At present, there are a total of 257 elderly care institutions in the city, with 5567 beds for cognitive impairment care built. Health centers and health service stations have achieved full coverage of villages (residences), and 1390 elderly canteens serve over ten million people annually.

At the same time, the silver economy in Guangzhou is thriving, with over 18000 enterprises in the silver economy sector and an industrial scale exceeding 340 billion yuan. In 2025, the city successfully held more than 190 silver age market activities, and the "rejuvenation" action of home aging adaptation will drive consumption of over 380 million yuan, achieving two-way empowerment of people's livelihood improvement and economic development.

In terms of elderly care services, Guangzhou will adhere to using the elderly care industry to drive the elderly care industry, and using the elderly care industry to support the elderly care industry. It will continue to expand the high-level opening of the elderly care service market, deepen cross-border elderly care service cooperation, comprehensively improve the efficiency of the elderly care service network at the city, district, town (street), and village (residential) levels, optimize and improve the three types of elderly care services at home, community, and institution, steadily promote the distribution of elderly care service consumption subsidies to moderately disabled elderly people, and effectively improve the quality of elderly care service supply. At the same time, we will strictly implement the spatial development plan for the silver economy, focus on building a number of high-level silver economy industrial parks and elderly friendly life experience exhibition centers, host the China (Guangzhou) International Elderly Care and Health Industry Expo, continue to enhance the "Lehuo Yangcheng" silver age market brand, and cultivate new economic growth points in addressing people's livelihood concerns. In addition, we will deepen technological innovation and industrial collaboration in the field of civil affairs, actively introduce cutting-edge technologies and innovative products such as artificial intelligence and embodied robots, promote the improvement of the quality and efficiency of "digital civil affairs" construction, and make civil affairs services more accurate, efficient, and comprehensive.

The heavy responsibility lies on our shoulders, and our mission is glorious; The original intention is like a rock, and hard work leads to long-term success. Guangzhou Civil Affairs will take practical work as the pen and responsibility as the ink, focus on the urgent and difficult problems that the people are looking forward to, do a good job in providing tangible and accessible livelihood services, strive to run the first journey of the 15th Five Year Plan, continuously improve people's well-being, and make the people's sense of gain more abundant, happiness more sustainable, and security more guaranteed.

The above excerpt is from the official website of the Ministry of Civil Affairs