Government and Policy

Chinese Premier Wen chats online with Internet users

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2011-02-27 09:51

Income distribution

Wen Jiabao vowed during the online chat with netizens that ensuring fair income distribution will be an important task of the government.

Income distribution has a direct bearing on social justice and fairness as well as stability, Wen said.

"We will ensure that people's income increase be kept pace with economic growth and people's salary growth be kept pace with the productivity rise," he said.

He said the government will tackle the problem from three aspects:

-- Increase the salary of the low-income group and the minimum living allowances.

-- Contain the salary in the industries with overly high incomes.

-- Protect lawful income, ban illegal income and regulate excessively high income.