Chinese Vice Premier
Huang Ju called for more efforts in improving
social security system with Chinese characteristics and setting up
long-term mechanism of social security in
Beijing Saturday.
These efforts should be based on the basic national situation
and economic and social development reality, Huang said in a speech
at the opening of the first annual meeting of China Social Security
Forum.
Huang, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political
Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said that the Chinese
government attaches great importance to the establishment of the
social security system and regards it as the backbone of the
socialist market economy.
Huang urged that efforts in improving the social security system
must adhere to the principle of coordinating planning for urban and
rural areas.
The country needs a social security system that fits the rural
economy and society, Huang said.
He also said the system should cover the problems of
work-related injuries, medical insurance and endowment insurance of
migrant workers and farmers whose land has been requisitioned.
Huang also called for a bigger role of social security in
adjusting income allocation, which will allow low-income citizens
to enjoy the fruit of economic development and pave the road for
further national economic development.
(Xinhua News Agency September 24, 2006)