Premier Wen Jiabao Wednesday called for stepping up national
efforts to build a harmonious society, saying employment, social
security, poverty reduction, education, medical care, environmental
protection and safety will be given priority.
Wen made the appeal in his explanation about the Proposal on the
11th Five-year?Guidelines at the Fifth Session of the 16th CPC
(Communist Party of China) Central Committee last week.
He said that employment will remain a tough issue for a long
period of time to come, so China has to carry out pro-active
employment policies and try every means to create job
opportunities.
On social security, the premier called for further making
efforts to improve the insurance system of pension, basic medical
care, unemployment, industrial injuries and birth, to earnestly
resolve the social security issue for migrant farmer workers in
cities, and to set up a security system of minimum living standards
for rural areas.
Wen meanwhile urged efforts to readjust the income distribution
in a proper way to narrow the income gap among different regions
and social groups and to achieve social equality.
Other important tasks for building a harmonious society in the
coming five years include greatly developing education and lifting
the educational level of the nationals, enriching the public's
spiritual and cultural life, improving medical services across the
country, and safeguarding the life and property of the people, Wen
said.
According to Wen, the State Council will make the draft of the
Eleventh Five-year Program based on the proposal. The draft will be
reviewed at the National People's Congress session next March.
(Xinhua News Agency October 9, 2005)