Recent riots in the Middle East and North Africa will not be repeated in China as the government is doing a good job and taking people's demands seriously, a key political adviser has said.
China pledged to use energy more efficiently, emit less greenhouse gases to power healthier economic growth, and expand its pollution control scheme to tackle environmental problems during the next five years.
Premier Wen Jiabao put inflation control on top of the agenda for macroeconomic regulation and vowed to keep consumer price increases in 2011 at about 4 percent when delivering the annual government work report on Saturday.
China's rural areas are totally exposed to the danger of disasters such as fires, flooding and earthquakes, and its more than 600 cities are also in urgent need of improving disaster relief capabilities, an official said Saturday.
China has targeted seven percent of annual growth of urban per capita disposable income and rural per capita net income for the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) period.
As China faces an aging society, a delegate of Guangzhou People's Congress suggests the government should establish a specialized agency to improve social services for the elderly who live alone.