National Development and Reform Commission: By the first half of 2025, 2.08 million low-income people will be provided with work in place of relief and will be employed nearby.

In the first half of 2025, 2.08 million low-income people were employed nearby through the use of work to help as well as labor compensation of 22.3 billion yuan. In order to implement the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference and the Politburo meeting on April 25th, and in accordance with the requirements of the Government Work Report, in 2025, the National Development and Reform Commission, together with the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and other departments, continued to focus on the work of using work to help, actively expanding the channels for employment and income generation for low-income people. According to the latest dispatch, in the first half of the year, various regions, by implementing central special investment projects using work to help, and promoting the method of using work to help in various key engineering projects and agricultural and rural infrastructure areas, have cumulatively attracted and driven 2.08 million low-income people to work nearby, an increase of 32% compared to the same period last year; labor compensation of 22.3 billion yuan has been paid, an increase of 34% compared to the same period last year.