Zhu Singles out China's Economic, Social Difficulties

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Zhu Singles out China's Economic, Social Difficulties

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"We are clearly aware that there are still some outstanding difficulties and problems in China's economic and social life," said Premier Zhu Rongji, when he delivered the Report on the Work of the Government at the opening of the First Session of the Tenth National People's Congress Wednesday.

He listed the problems, in main, as follows:

-- Insufficient domestic effective demand and inability of the supply structure to respond to changes in market demand;

-- Slow growth in the income of farmers and some urban residents;

-- Rise in the unemployed and serious difficulties in some people's livelihood;

-- Continued inequities in the distribution of income;

-- Arduous tasks remaining in the reform of state-owned enterprises;

-- The need to continue to rectify and standardize the order of the market economy;

-- Sporadic occurrence of major industrial accidents;

-- Poor public security in some places;

-- Degradation of the ecological environment in some areas;

-- Continued isolation from the people and perpetration of formalism, bureaucracy, falsification, extravagance and waste among some government officials, and certain types of corruption remaining conspicuous.

The report says that some of these problems are the legacy of the past; others are hardly avoidable in the course of institutional transition and structural readjustment, and still others are caused by shortcomings and inadequacies in our work. More steps should be taken conscientiously to solve them, it stresses.

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