CPC pledges to improve welfare of rural residents

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-10-20 13:46

POVERTY REDUCTION AND DISASTER RELIEF

The committee pledged to provide more low-income farmers with financial aid and give more assistance to people in remote areas, revolutionary bases, ethnic minority regions and poverty-stricken places.

International cooperation should be enhanced to fight poverty in the countryside, it read.

To install an upgraded natural disaster forecasting system and raise farmers' awareness of emergency response and relief was also one of the document's high points.

The capacity of forecasting disastrous weather, ecological disasters and monitoring earthquakes should be strengthened and more needs to be done to promote farmers' disaster prevention and relief awareness, it said.

The paper also set the direction for public facility safety standards, saying schools and hospital buildings should all be safe and up to construction standards.

All-out efforts should be made to restore the agriculture work in the area struck by the May 12 Sichuan earthquake and more measures need to be adopted to heal and improve the ecological conditions in the quake-hit region, it noted.

HARMONIOUS SOCIETY IN THE COUNTRYSIDE

It also emphasized the importance of maintaining a "harmonious" and "stable" environment in the countryside.

More channels should be opened to solicit farmers' opinions and address their complaints and problems, said the paper, adding leaders should pay frequent visits to farmers and solve villagers' problems at the grassroot level.

The committee further underscored ethnic relations. The equal, united, mutually-aided and harmonious ethnic relations should be consolidated and developed, it said.

Interference with village affairs by any religious groups or clans would be objected; evil cults in villages were prohibited and any mafia-style force would incur severe crackdown, it said.

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