Wen highlights dignity of the people
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March 1, 2010, Monday
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CHINESE citizens shall enjoy full freedom and rights within the framework of the constitution and the law, which is key to the promotion of "greater dignity" of the population, Premier Wen Jiabao said in Beijing on Saturday.
Explaining an earlier comment on "letting the Chinese live with greater dignity," Wen said during an online chat that all people should enjoy equality before the law.
He said the ultimate purpose of a country's development should be meeting the increasing material and cultural needs of the people, and that the comprehensive development of the society should be based on the development of individuals.
"We shall create favorable conditions for people's freedom and full development, in order to nurture their intelligence and talent," Wen said.
He compared a fair distribution of social wealth to the government's social conscience.
Wen said: "It must be unfair when a society's wealth is in hands of a few people and, in that case, the society must be unstable."
He said it was the government's responsibility to "make the cake of social wealth as big as possible" and to "distribute the cake in a fair way."
The fair distribution of social wealth concerns social justice, Wen said, adding that it actually involves distribution of national income.
However, "the proportion of residents' income is relatively low in the distribution of national income," the premier said.
To "make the social wealth cake bigger," efforts should be made to concentrate on enhancing production capacity and take economic construction as a central task, he said.
Wen said special attention should be paid to changing the development mode and "making our economic development really focus on the advancement of science and technology and the quality of labor force."
In response to complaints about soaring housing prices, Wen said he was determined to tame the "wild-horse" housing market and to keep prices at a reasonable level within his term as premier.
He said the government would step up efforts to increase the supply of affordable houses, encourage reasonable house buying while curbing speculative demand, and punish developers who hoard land and completed houses in anticipation of price increases.
He said China was still facing serious challenges in employment.
Labor shortages in certain areas were signs of a stabilized and recovering economy, but the serious employment situation had not changed in general, Wen said.
Explaining an earlier comment on "letting the Chinese live with greater dignity," Wen said during an online chat that all people should enjoy equality before the law.
He said the ultimate purpose of a country's development should be meeting the increasing material and cultural needs of the people, and that the comprehensive development of the society should be based on the development of individuals.
"We shall create favorable conditions for people's freedom and full development, in order to nurture their intelligence and talent," Wen said.
He compared a fair distribution of social wealth to the government's social conscience.
Wen said: "It must be unfair when a society's wealth is in hands of a few people and, in that case, the society must be unstable."
He said it was the government's responsibility to "make the cake of social wealth as big as possible" and to "distribute the cake in a fair way."
The fair distribution of social wealth concerns social justice, Wen said, adding that it actually involves distribution of national income.
However, "the proportion of residents' income is relatively low in the distribution of national income," the premier said.
To "make the social wealth cake bigger," efforts should be made to concentrate on enhancing production capacity and take economic construction as a central task, he said.
Wen said special attention should be paid to changing the development mode and "making our economic development really focus on the advancement of science and technology and the quality of labor force."
In response to complaints about soaring housing prices, Wen said he was determined to tame the "wild-horse" housing market and to keep prices at a reasonable level within his term as premier.
He said the government would step up efforts to increase the supply of affordable houses, encourage reasonable house buying while curbing speculative demand, and punish developers who hoard land and completed houses in anticipation of price increases.
He said China was still facing serious challenges in employment.
Labor shortages in certain areas were signs of a stabilized and recovering economy, but the serious employment situation had not changed in general, Wen said.
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