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China to beef up weak links in social development

www.chinanews.cn 2005-03-06 10:40:11

(Source:Xinhuanet)

BEIJING, March 6 - China will spend 13.78 percent more on beefing up weak
links in social development, including education, science and technology
and health in 2005, according to a report on the central and local
budgets.
"A total of 129.71 billion yuan (15.63 billion US dollars) in the central
budget has been earmarked for education, science and technology, health,
culture, sports and radio, family planning, and courts and public
security, procuratorial and judicial organs," says the report on the
implementation of the central and local budgets for 2004 and on the draft
central and local budgets for 2005, submitted Saturday to the annual
session of the National People's Congress (NPC) for approval.
Around 30 million primary and secondary school students from poor
families in the central and western regions will receive freetextbooks in
2005, says the report. Among them, 14 million students from very poor
areas are also exempt from paying miscellaneous education-related fees
starting this spring semester,and the boarding students will receive
living allowances.
The report says the state will allocate 1 billion yuan for trials to
develop a new system for rural cooperative medical care and health
services, 704 million yuan more than one year earlier.
A total of 4.2 billion yuan will be allocated for development of the
public health care system and control of AIDS, snail fever,endemic
diseases and other major diseases, a year-on-year increaseof 200 million
yuan.
Another 400 million yuan will be allocated for trials of the system for
rewarding and supporting some rural families that observe the family
planning policy, 200 million yuan more than last year, says the report.
In addition, some anti-poverty funds from the central budget will be
allocated to support the pilot project that encourages couples to "have
fewer children and prosper faster" , it says.
It says a total of 4.81 billion yuan in subsidies will be allocated from
the central budget to finance courts and public security, procuratorial
and judicial organs in poor areas, a rise of 1.68 billion yuan over last
year.
To meet the needs of exchanges and economic cooperation with other
countries, 6.92 billion yuan from the central budget is earmarked for
foreign aid, an increase of 850 million yuan year-on-year, says the
report.

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