Home>News Center>China>Foreign Media On China
       
 

Wen pledges growth will lift rural poor
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-03-06 11:53

China will channel its surging economic growth to narrow the chasm dividing its cities and countryside, Premier Wen Jiabao told parliament on Sunday in a speech tempering optimism with stark warnings.

In setting out government goals for the coming year, Wen promised "continuity and stability" in general economic policy, including the currency exchange rate and monetary policy. But he said more wealth and investment must go to farmers and other struggling groups to ensure China's stability and growth.

Wen praised China's performance in 2005 in a speech to nearly 3,000 delegates of the National People's Congress who packed Beijing's Great Hall of the People for their brief annual session.

He read a 35-page speech word for word, his delivery occasionally interrupted by applause. A long clapping before the end came when he spoke of China's commitment to reclaim Taiwan.

Wen warned of dangers and difficult choices ahead. "Some deeply seated conflicts that have accumulated over a long time have yet to be fundamentally resolved, and new problems have arisen that cannot be ignored," he said.

The country must "pay more attention to social equity and social stability so that all the people can enjoy the fruits of reform and development."

Wen drew a picture of a rapidly growing economy threatened by excessive investment, production gluts and mismanagement. He said distorted industrial expansion was undercutting China's long-term economic health.

"Production gluts are increasingly severe, prices of related goods are falling and inventories are rising. Business profits are shrinking, losses are growing and latent financial risks are increasing," he said.

Wen's government is working on the assumption that gross domestic product will grow about 8 percent this year and that consumer prices will rise 3 percent. But the government typically sets cautious growth targets; it set an 8 percent target for 2005 but actual growth was 9.9 percent.

SLUICE GATES

Wen promised strict controls on the "sluice gates" of land and credit to deter excessive investment. But China could only find a lasting cure for its economic and social imbalances by raising the incomes, efficiency and confidence of farmers.

A large section of his report addressed the government's plans to build a "new socialist countryside" for the country's 750 million farmers. Wen said the government plans to spend 339.7 billion yuan ($42.3 billion) this year on upgrading agriculture, and billions more on rural social services.

The programme was a "major historic task" to divert government investment, education and health care, and bank loans to the countryside, where rising protests against corruption and inequity have alarmed central officials.

"We must apply the guiding policies of industry replenishing agriculture and the cities supporting the countryside," he said.

Wen said these redistributive policies would bring industry and cities not pain but more growth by stimulating domestic demand. He described the measures as part of the government's "strategy of expanding domestic consumption."

"We will stabilize residents' outlay expectations to expand current consumption," Wen said.

Income rises would provide cash for the poor to spend on consumer goods, and improved social security and more affordable hospitals and schools would ease fears about the future, he said.

The parliamentary delegates praised the premier's promises. But in group sessions afterward, even some officials chided the government for allowing farmers' livelihoods to fall so far behind.

"A lot of money has been invested, but people's lives have improved little," Guo Shuqing, the chairman of China Construction Bank Corp., told members of the China People's Political Consultative Conference, an advisory body that meets at the same time as parliament.

Wen avoided breakthrough statements on foreign policy and defense. And he also refrained from threatening force against Taiwan.

But he left a veiled barb apparently directed at Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian, who recently antagonised Beijing by scrapping an official council on reunification.

"It is the people's will for cross-Strait relations to develop in a direction of peace, stability and mutual benefit," he said. "Anyone who vainly seeks to destroy this great trend will certainly fail."

With tensions simmering, China is also set to spend 14.7 percent more on defense in 2006 than it did last year, a spokesman for the parliament said.

Finance Minister Jin Renqing, in a report to parliament, said China expects to trim its budget deficit by about 1.7 percent in 2006, further winding back fiscal stimulus that began in 1998.



Top leaders join lawmakers in discussions
Job fair held for agricultural and forestry graduates
Government to boost rural sector
  Today's Top News     Top China News
 

NPC session: China's PM pledges prosperity for all

 

   
 

Taiwan opposition leader to visit US

 

   
 

Nation's 11th Five-Year plan group chewed

 

   
 

Astronauts set for first space walk in 2008

 

   
 

China confirms another human bird flu death

 

   
 

Call for bigger middle-income group

 

   
  Taiwan opposition leader to visit US
   
  Nation's 11th Five-Year plan group chewed
   
  Farmers will benefit from higher spending
   
  Deputies developing understanding of role
   
  Japan, China to discuss East China Sea issue
   
  Astronauts set for first space walk in 2008
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
Manufacturers, Exporters, Wholesalers - Global trade starts here.
Advertisement
         
主站蜘蛛池模板: 免费国产黄网站在线观看视频| 国产精品白丝喷水在线观看| 久久久久久久亚洲AV无码 | yellow版字幕网| 扒开粉嫩的小缝喷出水视频| 久久狠狠爱亚洲综合影院| 欧美人与动人物乱大交| 亚洲老妈激情一区二区三区| 精品免费国产一区二区| 国产一级性生活| 高潮毛片无遮挡高清免费| 国产猛男猛女超爽免费视频| 69视频在线是免费观看| 天堂√在线官网| yy111111影院理论大片| 性宝福精品导航| 久久中文字幕人妻丝袜| 日韩一区二区免费视频| 亚洲av日韩综合一区久热| 欧美成人免费公开播放欧美成人免费一区在线播放| 人人添人人妻人人爽夜欢视av| free性中国熟女hd| 无码毛片视频一区二区本码| 久久狠狠爱亚洲综合影院| 星空无限传媒在线观看| 全免费a级毛片免费看| 久久机热这里只有精品无需| 国产精品美女乱子伦高| 两个人看的www在线| 日产精品一致六区搬运| 久久国产精品免费专区| 日韩精品无码一区二区三区AV| 亚洲av永久中文无码精品综合| 欧美午夜一区二区福利视频 | 亚洲成人第一页| 欧美精品国产综合久久| 台湾三级香港三级经典三在线 | 美女扒开胸罩摸双乳动图| 国产a级特黄的片子视频 | 天天综合天天添夜夜添狠狠添| xx00动态图|