Premier pledges rural development in annual session
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-03-06 20:43

A Chinese woman pours water into her container near a newly dug aqueduct in Xiangfan, China's Hubei province March 6, 2006. Premier Wen Jiabao told parliament on Sunday that China would channel its surging economic growth to improve living conditions of rural people and narrow the widening gap between the country's cities and countryside. [Reuters]