Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Tuesday, May 28, 2002
Premier Zhu Urges Better Work on Civil Affairs
Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji Monday urged the country's civil affairs officials to do a better job so as to help maintain the stability of society for the deepening of reform and economic development.
Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji Monday urged the country's civil affairs officials to do a better job so as to help maintain the stability of society for the deepening of reform and economic development.
"The Communist Party of China and the Chinese government have always attached great importance to civil affairs work," the premier told the 11th National Civil Affairs Conference.
He said that President Jiang Zemin's important instruction on the matter in his meeting with conference participants Monday will be the guideline for future work in this field.
The premier said that civil affairs work has become more onerous in the new era, during which priority in the work should be given to providing minimum living allowances to the urban poor, optimizing the national disaster relief system, improving the administration of social affairs and aiding the needy.
Zhu said that civil affairs work should be brought more closely into the orbit of the law and also digitalized.