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Q&A: China&`&s Central Rural Work Conference
Since 2004, China&`&s rural issues have dominated the country&`&s annual No.1 Central document, which is normally released at the beginning of the year. The Central Rural Work Conference lays the ground work for the annual No 1 document.
This year&`&s conference focused on three areas, agricultural modernization, rural land reform, and pricing of agricultural produce.
As China&`&s farming population declines, agricultural modernization is needed to enhance productivity. More farmers leaving for cities means land must be used more effectively while price fluctuations of produce affects every single person.
So how do experts assess the priorities of the Central Rural Work Conference? What advice do they offer to policy makers in devising better rural policies?
For more on this, Zheng Chenguang speaks with Dr. Hiroyuki Konuma, Assitant Director-General and Regional Representative for Asia and Pacific at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization about the organization&`&s view on China&`&s future agricultural development. .
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Q&A: The 16th Peking University Guanghua New Year Forum
The 16th Peking University Guanghua New Year Forum was held at Peking University on December 21th. Top economists and businessmen of China attended and gave out some thorough thoughts and suggestions on the development and reform of this country.
Let&`&s follow our reporter Chi Huiguang to find out more.
With the theme of "China Moving Forward: Cultural and Economic Transformation", the 16th Peking University Guanghua New Year Forum was held at Khoo Teck Puat Gymnasium in the Yan Garden.
Professor Li Yining, honorary president of Guanghua School of Management of Peking University, one of the most highly regarded economists in China, and Jin Liqun, secretry-general of the multilateral temporary secretariat of Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank, former vice finance minister gave the keynote speeches.
Li Yining said, in the dual labor market, generally speaking, workers seldom have the chance to transfer from undesirable careers to ones that are satisfactory. It&`&s easier for the white-collar workers to become the middle class than the blue-collars. He gave out the method of melting the differences between them, by strengthening the professional technical education, to ensure the social vertical flow channel unblocked.
"The growth of the blue-collar workers tells us that in a both equal and efficient society, equity and efficiency can be realized at the same time. There&`&s no dilemma of trade-off between them. Middle class is a concept defined not only by income level, but also by cultural quality. The blue-collar middle class will become a group with higher and higher cultural and moral attainment. And they will become the dominant force together with the white-collar middle class."
Jin Liqun said, there are two key issues in China now. One is deepening the reform of economic system. The other is combatting corruption.
"I had been working in the government for 30 years. I have a profound understanding that the key point of the next round of revolution in China is that whether the government can transform the functions. It&`&s not too hard actually. However, it&`&s like a doctor operates surgery on his own body. Technically speaking, it isn&`&t difficult. But it&`&s really hard to carry out."
In the following summit dialogues, Cai Hongbin, Dean of Guanghua School of Management explained that cultural development is lagging behind the growth of the Chinese economy. News of fighting on airplanes recently showed that for some of Chinese people, their behavior didn&`&t improve together with the rapid progress of living condition. So during the economic growth in the future, we should promote efficiency, by developing integrity and innovation, the sense of tolerance and responsibility and reduce the institutional cost.
Pan Shiyi, president of SOHO China, said in the dialogues that the economic transformation would turn out to be some large platforms, surrounded by lots of small and medium-sized enterprises.
"The vitality of the platforms is equity. While for all the surrounding SMEs, what is their vitality? It is innovation."
Liu Qiangdong, CEO of Jingdong Group, Huang Kexing, president of Tsingtao Beer and some doctors and professors from law and philosophy schools of Peking University also attended the submit dialogues of the forum.
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Report: China&`&s Pension System Reform
China is set to reform its pension system for employees in government departments, in a bid to level out the massive pension gap with those working in enterprises.
In the current dual system, government and public institution employees receive a much higher pension after retirement compared with those working in enterprises.
Vice Premier Ma Kai.
"We are going to establish an integrated pension system for government bodies and enterprises. The new pension scheme will include money paid by individuals and employers. We are also going to carry out a reform on how the numbers and rates are determined, in order to break the long-held dual system."
The reform will be carried out nationwide simultaneously with reforms of the salary system.
The vice premier also says the national social security system has been established, while the recent measures are expanding its coverage.
"Based on an improved provincial reform, pension insurance should also be pushed forward at the national level. We will work out initiatives for clear-cut funding and paying responsibilities of central and local governments".
As of the end of November, nearly 840 million people had joined the pension system. The government is aiming to cover 900 million people by 2017.
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