10 benefits in people's livelihood expected in 2017

6 Fiber-optic broadband will be extended to 30,000 administrative villages

The government will strengthen efforts to ensure the care and protection of children who remain in rural areas while their parents work away in the cities and provide support for children living in difficult conditions in both rural and urban areas. It will take continued steps to resolve the problem of wage arrears for migrant workers, never allowing their hard work to go unpaid. It will continue raising basic pension payments and see they are paid on time and in full.

Two left-behind children follow their teacher to school in a mountainous area of Jiangxi province.[Photo by Zhuo Zhongwei/China Daily]