Govt pledges to spend more on social security

The government will vastly increase spending on social security to improve people's livelihood and safeguard social stability and harmony.

The policy was announced during a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee yesterday.

The meeting, presided over by President Hu Jintao, also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, discussed a government work report to be submitted to next month's annual session of the 11th National People's Congress, the national legislature.