China News Service, Chongqing, October 22 (Reporter Liu Xianglin) The 17th People's Livelihood Forum of the China Democratic League opened in Dadukou District, Chongqing on the 21st. The theme of this forum is "Improving the Income Distribution System". More than 200 people from provincial Democratic League organizations, experts and scholars from across the country participated in the forum. The participating representatives discussed the reform of income distribution and the path to common prosperity, and made suggestions for the development of China's people's livelihood.
Wang Guangqian, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Executive Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League, pointed out at the opening ceremony that the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China emphasized the establishment of a coordinated and supporting institutional system for primary distribution, redistribution, and third distribution. The "15th Five-Year Plan" placed "solidly promoting the common prosperity of all people" in a prominent position. I hope that the comrades attending the meeting will make more wise words and provide more pragmatic strategies, and work together to contribute the wisdom and strength of the Democratic League to continuously optimize the distribution pattern and solidly promote common prosperity. Wang Guangqian emphasized the need to broaden income-increasing channels and consolidate the material basis for income distribution in high-quality development; adhere to the coordination and matching of primary distribution and redistribution, and accelerate the formation of an olive-shaped distribution pattern with a large middle and small ends; promote fair opportunities, strengthen legal protection, enhance the fairness and sustainability of the income distribution system, and ensure that reforms are always advanced on the track of the rule of law.
"The current pension level for urban and rural residents is not enough to 'guarantee the basics', and the 'insurance' attribute of the basic pension insurance system for urban and rural residents is insufficient." Jin Weigang, vice president of the Chinese Society of Social Security and deputy director of the National Institutional Research Institute of Zhejiang University, said in a keynote report that a multi-level and multi-pillar pension insurance system needs to be improved and improved. He suggested that the goals and functions of basic pension insurance for urban and rural residents should be reasonably defined, the financing mechanism should be improved, financing standards should be improved, the basic pension determination mechanism and benefit adjustment mechanism should be improved, a reasonable pension benefit level should be determined, and financial subsidies should be increased.
Professor Yu Zeyuan, deputy chairman of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the China Democratic League and president of the Chongqing Academy of Educational Sciences, pointed out that education is an engine that promotes upward intergenerational mobility, but there is also the possibility of solidifying income gaps. He suggested starting from the national top-level design and school implementation. "Compulsory education anchors the direction of high quality and balance, activates the connotation development of schools with the empowerment of teaching and research, and uses organized education and scientific research as the overall focus to promote the 'five major constructions' of system, system, quality, platform, and team, so that high-quality resources and high-quality teachers can cross the urban-rural boundary, so that every disadvantaged school can be effectively supported."
"Artificial intelligence is accelerating its penetration into all areas of the national economy, and has a profound impact on labor employment and income distribution." Yao Jianping, deputy director of the Central Social Committee of the China Democratic League and director of the Poverty and Social Security Research Center of North China Electric Power University, suggested that we should establish a monitoring and early warning mechanism for the impact of AI on employment, build a vocational skills training system, vigorously develop AI emerging industries and job creation, strengthen AI ethical governance and employment equity guarantees, and improve the labor income security system and rights protection system. "For example, we will implement the Artificial Intelligence Job Creation Plan, expand employment space in AI research and development, data services, intelligent hardware, AI + medical and other fields, and improve new career identification standards and development channels."
Currently, digital management systems have been deeply embedded in core personnel decision-making links such as shift scheduling, assessment, and salary accounting. These tools have changed the traditional model in which managers' experience and workers' bargaining jointly determine compensation, and have brought about substantial changes in the determination mechanism of labor compensation. "Algorithmic management is the core mechanism for digital transformation to reshape income distribution within enterprises." According to Zhao Yuxin, a Ph.D. from Hunan University, its positive effect is to improve efficiency and encourage skill accumulation, while its negative effect is to weaken the bargaining power of ordinary workers, reduce income stability, and squeeze middle-income jobs. Incorporating algorithmic management into the primary distribution system framework is not to inhibit technological progress, but to ensure that technological dividends are reasonably shared among different types of workers through institutional design. “It is recommended to improve the primary distribution system and respond institutionally in three dimensions: algorithmization of salary decisions, fragmentation of labor relations, and structural changes in skill premiums, so that digital transformation can truly serve the institutional goal of increasing the proportion of labor remuneration in primary distribution.”
The People's Livelihood Forum was founded by the China Democratic League Central Committee in 2010. It is an important political participation and discussion platform for the China Democratic League Central Committee to bring together experts from inside and outside the League to focus on people's livelihood issues. It has been successfully held for sixteen years. Many opinions and suggestions have been transformed into important political participation and discussion results, providing important reference for national reform decisions in the field of people's livelihood.
This forum is hosted by the Central Social Committee of the Democratic League and the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Democratic League, and hosted by the United Front Work Department of the Chongqing Dadukou District Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Chongqing Dadukou District Committee of the Democratic League. The forum received a total of 222 papers submitted by 30 provincial organizations of the Democratic League and the Central Social Committee of the Democratic League. They analyzed issues and put forward suggestions on the impact of artificial intelligence and automation on labor income share, digital transformation and intra-enterprise income distribution, marketization of data elements and income distribution mechanism, intergenerational income flow and inequality of opportunities. After expert review and review by the Democratic League Central Committee, 41 excellent papers were selected.
