Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Saturday stressed the importance of fair distribution of social wealth, saying an unfair society is doomed to instability.

During an on-line chat with Internet users, Wen said, "It is unfair if a society's wealth is only in hands of a few people. In that case, the society is doomed to instability."

He said it is the government responsibility to make the "cake of social wealth" as big as possible and the government also should help distribute the "cake" in a fair way.

The fair distribution of social wealth concerns social justice, Wen said.

He called for an increase of the proportion of residents' income in the distribution of national income, and the use of fiscal and taxation instruments to help "the disadvantaged groups."

Wen said the country had about 270 million low-income residents. "We should give care to all of them," he said.