Notice on carrying out the New Family Plan-Family Development Ability Building

(en.nhfpc.gov.cn)

Updated: 2014-07-15

The health and family planning commission in provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government; municipalities with independent planning status; Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps; family planning leading group offices at the People’s Liberation Army; the People's Armed Police; and the family planning commission at departments under the CPC Central Committee and central government departments:

The NHFPC decided to carry out the New Family Plan-Family Development Ability Building to implement the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee and improve family development ability and public well-being.

Goals

1. Raise family health care awareness and significantly improve self-care ability and health quality

2. Step up scientific childbearing knowledge popularization with families with infants

3. Significantly raise family’s abilities in elderly people health management, promotion and daily care

4. Carry forward family virtues that propose to respect the elderly and take care of children, build a more harmonious family relationship and optimize the community environment

Content

Carry out two-stage training

1. Arrange for national experts to design a project plan and compile training materials, project implementation guidelines, management, supervision and evaluation plans

2. Provinces (autonomous region and municipality) should make work plans based on individual conditions. Each of them should choose an urban community and a rural community as a national experimental unit. Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, the family planning leading group at the People’s Liberation Army, the People's Armed Police, and family planning commission at departments under the CPC Central Committee and central government departments should each choose two national pilot units.

3. Every pilot project should have 10 workers, including management and project implementation personnel, to attend national training sessions (the training plan and notice will be issued separately).

4. All pilot units should issue training materials and project implementation guidance manuals and arrange pertinent training for families at pilot communities.

Arrange auxiliary activities

 Each pilot project should carry out publicity, training and service activities based on training content and project plans, and prepare relevant publicity products for communities and families. All regions can act on circumstances and carry out activities that meet local family needs.