Blacktop highway will reach all counties in Tibet during the 12th Five-Year Program period (2011-2015), said Li Shenglin, China's transport minister, during the ongoing parliamentary session.
China will give top priority to improving people's livelihood in the five years to 2015, minister of the country's top economic planning body said Sunday.
China will seek lower economic growth in the coming five years as the constant pursuit of rapid expansion in past years has brought about unbalanced economic and social development.
More provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions have pledged to make residents' income growth fall into line with economic development as part of the 2011 draft plan for national economic and social development, China's top economic planner said Sunday.
President Hu Jintao and other senior Chinese leaders respectively joined panel discussions of national legislators at the annual parliamentary session Saturday in Beijing.
The government again demonstrated its strong resolve to combat corruption on Saturday, vowing to end excessive concentrations of power and saying that supervision and transparency will be enhanced.
Premier Wen Jiabao pledged on Saturday that the government will firmly curb excessive housing price growth and provide enough affordable houses for needy residents this year.
China needs to take measures to address problems of migrant workers' welfare and illegal expropriation of rural land in the following years, or else China's urbanization drive could only end up in failure.
China's newly appointed railway minister said Saturday that China would continue to develop its high-speed rail network under its national medium-to-long-term program even after its former minister was ousted.