Jilin officials said that the provincial government has given a priority to improvement of people’s livelihood and the promotion of social fairness on Thursday, Feb 12.

"We've tried out utmost to meet people’s basic living needs, and to promote social fairness," Zheng Guojun, head of Jilin civil affairs bureau, said at a joint press conference along with other four officials concerning people’s well-being.

"Those topics related to people's livelihood presents priority on the government's work agenda," he said.

Jilin Provincial People's Government Information Office holds a joint press conference on people's livelihood, on Feb 12.[[Photo by Liu Xiao/China Daily]

One government initiative, according to Zheng, is to build senior care facilities in the urban area and in new communities, as the aging population poses big challenges to the province’s senior-care system.

He went on to say that the government will provide incentives for individual and institutional investors to open nusing homes in 2015.

Sui Dianjun, director of Jilin health and family planning commission, said the government has raised the basic medical insurance to 320 yuan/ person in rural areas, and that has paid speical attention to meet the demands of the people who find hard to give proper medical treatment in rural areas.

"We have built up 2,711 standard village clinics and 50 township community hospitals to meet the primary medical needs of people," Sui said.

Speaking on education fairness, Yue Qiang, deputy director of Jilin education department said that the government has paid particular attention to ensure education fairness at the very starting point.

"We set the target of raising the proportion of rural students from poor areas enrolled in key middle schools and universities," he said.

The official added that his department is to further improve the safety of campus buses and to implement education reform in 2015.