We will energetically develop an advanced socialist culture. We will
emphasize ideological and moral development and promote a patriotic national
spirit, a reformist and innovative spirit of the times, and a collectivist and
socialist ideology. We will intensify the ideological and moral education of
minors and the ideological and political education of college students. We will
promote reform of the cultural system and innovation in cultural mechanisms and
accelerate the development of cultural undertakings and industries. We will
continue to ensure that cultural undertakings flourish, while carefully managing
them. We will develop literature, art, the press, publishing, radio, TV and
film, and strengthen development and management of the Internet. We will
accelerate primary-level cultural development in rural areas and expand radio
and TV coverage with the goal of reaching all villages. We will launch mass
activities to cultivate spiritual civilization. We will fight unremittingly
against pornographic and illegal publications. We will widely initiate fitness
programs for the general public. We will continue working hard to prepare for
the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai.
We will intensify development of a skilled, diversified and multilevel
workforce, focusing particularly on training, attracting and properly using
high-level and highly skilled personnel. We will promote the rational flow of
human resources and strengthen legislation concerning the human resources
market.
2. Creating more jobs, improving social security work and raising people's
living standards. We will continue to follow a proactive employment policy,
conscientiously implement all policies and measures to support reemployment, and
expand their coverage to workers laid off from collectively owned enterprises.
This year, 10.9 billion yuan will be allocated from the central budget for
reemployment work, 2.6 billion yuan more than last year. Local budgets will also
increase reemployment allocations. We will increase employment guidance,
training and services. We will make overall arrangements to help urban dwellers
entering the job market for the first time, college graduates, demobilized
servicemen and surplus rural laborers find employment. We will strengthen
oversight over job security work.
We will speed up development of the social security system. We will improve
the system of basic old-age insurance for enterprise employees. While retaining
the practice of combining contributions from various sources in society with
personal employee retirement accounts, we will ensure that personal retirement
accounts are fully funded in more areas on a trial basis. We will incorporate
subsistence allowances for workers laid off from state-owned enterprises into
the unemployment insurance system. The longstanding problem of workers being
laid off from state-owned enterprises will be basically solved in most areas of
the country this year. People laid off by enterprises in the future will
gradually be incorporated directly into the unemployment insurance system or
urban subsistence allowance program in accordance with the law. We will expand
coverage of social programs for old-age, unemployment, medical care and
work-related injury benefits in accordance with the law by incorporating more
self-employed individuals and employees of private and foreign-funded
enterprises into the social insurance system and improving methods for including
persons without fixed employment in it. We will intensify efforts to collect
social security contributions and gradually turn over management to higher-level
authorities. We will work out a plan for reforming the retirement pension system
in government bodies and institutions. We will improve the system of subsistence
allowances for urban residents, and areas where conditions permit may establish
a system of subsistence allowances for rural residents. We will take good care
of those injured and the families of those killed in the service of their
country. We will also support the development of charities.
We will continue to increase the incomes of urban and rural residents,
especially low- and middle-income people. We will adopt a variety of measures to
keep farmers' incomes rising. A mechanism will be promptly set up to ensure
migrant workers in cities get paid on time and in full, and the work of getting
their back wages paid to them will be continued. All enterprises should strictly
obey the minimum wage system, pay all wages in full and on time, and raise wages
as performance improves. The salary system for public servants will be reformed
and standardized.
We will continue reforming the system of income distribution. We will rectify
and standardize the way income is distributed, strive to improve the personal
income tax system, regulate income distribution more closely, gradually achieve
a more balanced income distribution, and work hard to narrow excessive income
gaps between some members of society, in order to promote social justice.
