2) We need to do a good job adjusting income distribution. We will
appropriately raise the labor share in the primary distribution of income. We
will improve the wage negotiation mechanism. We will also make appropriate
adjustments in and strictly follow the minimum wage system and further
standardize income distribution instate-owned enterprises and institutions,
especially in monopoly industries. We will improve tax collection and management
and raise taxes for high-income earners. We will protect the legitimate rights
and interests of rural migrant workers in cities by strengthening oversight over
payment of their wages and requiring employers to set up a payroll guarantee
fund.3) We need to speed up development of the social safety net. We will extend
coverage of basic old-age pensions, basic medical insurance and worker's
compensation to urban employees of enterprises under all types of ownership as
soon as possible. We will steadily proceed with the work of fully funding
personal old-age pension accounts. We will launch the trial of basic medical
insurance for urban residents that mainly covers major illnesses and work to
provide rural migrant workers in cities with workers' compensation insurance and
medical insurance for major diseases. We will study measures for transferring
social security accounts of workers from one region to another. We will improve
the management systems for social security funds and the funds in matching fund
programs for housing to ensure their safety. We will continue working to improve
the urban basic cost of living allowance system and set up a similar system for
rural residents nationwide. Reasonable eligibility requirements for rural
residents to receive such allowances and a reasonable level for allowances will
be set, and areas with financial difficulties will receive appropriate
assistance from the central government budget. We will accelerate efforts to
improve the social assistance system for both urban and rural residents to
better protect and help disabled persons, ensure that childless and infirm rural
residents receive subsidies for food, clothing, medical care, housing and burial
expenses, and better care for orphaned and handicapped children.4) We need to
improve production safety and ensure food and drug safety. We will launch more
campaigns to ensure food and drug safety and intensify oversight to ensure the
quality of food and drugs and proper sanitary conditions in the food and
beverage industry. We will set up a sound system and related mechanisms for
ensuring production safety and make it clearer that enterprises have the main
responsibility for production safety. We will work hard to bring the problem of
coalmine gas buildup under control, remedy safety problems in coalmines and shut
down coalmines that fail to meet requirements for production safety. We will
carry out campaigns to improve safety in industries most affected by safety
issues such as hazardous chemicals, fireworks, transportation, fire prevention,
construction and explosives for civilian use. We will intensify preventive
safety measures in schools and entertainment venues.5) We need to step up
efforts to reduce poverty through development. We will properly manage and use
budgetary funds for poverty alleviation and for projects to give people work
instead of merely handing out relief subsidies, strongly support small rural
infrastructure projects in key counties included in the national plan for
poverty alleviation through development and continue to relocate people from
inhospitable areas as a poverty relief effort on a trial basis. We will carry
out fellow-up policies to support relocation of residents from reservoir areas
and do a good job rebuilding disaster-hit areas.6) We need to safeguard and
promote social stability. We will attach a great deal of importance to solving
problems arising from land expropriation and requisition, housing demolition and
resident relocation, enterprise restructuring and petitions concerning
interpretation and enforcement of the law. We will increase our overall ability
to respond to emergencies and improve the system of contingency plans for the
various types of emergencies. We will improve the crime prevention and control
system and launch extensive campaigns to promote peace and security.
Fellow Deputies, Our tasks in reform, development and stability for 2007 will
be arduous. Under the leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Hu
Jintao as General Secretary, we will hold high the great banner of Deng Xiaoping
Theory and the important thought of Three Represents, fully put into practice
major strategic concepts of the Scientific Outlook on Development and building a
harmonious socialist society, and work hard together in a down-to-earth manner
to achieve the targets for economic and social development and promote sound and
rapid development of the national economy!
