Beijing. .- The Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, today promised social improvements to curb unrest in the inauguration of the National Popular Assembly (ANP, legislative), in a heavily guarded Beijing for the recent convening of "jasmine protests." Although such protests have hardly been followed and now only have served to confront the government with the foreign press, the truth is that their claims on the Internet appear to have been heard by Wen, whose promises to match the requests of the organizers: attention to corruption, social inequality or the high price of housing.
Given the approximately 3,000 legislators gathered today at the Great Hall of the People, west of Tiananmen Square, Wen gave an overview of the current country situation and advanced the goals of the communist regime in 2011 and also in the longer term, in this plenary will approve the XII Five-Year Plan (2011-2015).
In the five years that begins, the prime minister said, China will set an average annual growth of 7 percent, a goal considerably lower than the previous five years, in which the average was 11.2 percent. Will be five years, Wen revealed in the urban population for the first time exceed the rural in the long history of Oriental civilization, and now city dwellers account for 47.5 percent of the total, but by 2015 will be 51, 5 percent.
2015, Wen said the lawmakers, some of them in military uniforms and others dressed in traditional costumes of the ethnic groups they represent, will seek to "maintain the price level basically stable", will increase per capita income to rural annual rate of 7 percent, and will seek to increase life expectancy by one year (now around 74).
Wen also foresaw the creation of five years of 45 million urban jobs, housing for low income households for 20 percent of the urban population, and social security, now almost nonexistent for much of the Chinese to pay secured 70 percent of medical treatment. As for short-term objectives for 2011, the prime minister projected a GDP growth of 8 percent (2.3 percentage points less than in 2010), vowed to fight to ensure that inflation does not exceed 4 percent at the end of year (compared to 3.3 in 2010) and, ultimately, "a good environment to transform the economic development model." As if listening to the requests of "more jobs, more housing and more equal" one of the slogans of the organizers of the protests so far failed Peking Wangfujing Street and other central parts of China, Wen spent nearly a third of its speech promised social improvements for 2011.
Thus, Wen assured attention "to problems that cause great resentment among the masses as the unauthorized expropriation of arable land and the illegal demolition of houses," each year conflict that generate tens of thousands of protests across the country. Also, at another point coincident with the claims of the organizers of protests, the prime minister issued a stern warning to corrupt politicians and said the government "thoroughly solve problems related to government employees who abuse power for personal gain forget their duties or violate the rights of others.
" In particular, said Wen, will fight "extravagance, waste and formalism", reducing unnecessary meetings, the lavish expenditure of Communist leaders and other practices that have alienated the people of the communist regime. The prime minister opened with a speech two weeks of deliberations of the most important political meeting for China, which will be set state goals for the next five years.
The ANP is held surrounded by heavy security, including control of all vehicles entering Beijing from other provinces or the prohibition of the use of the capital's airspace, including the use of traditional kites. This year, moreover, Beijing fears a spread of social unrest in Arab countries to China, with the aforementioned "jasmine protests," has generated even more security on other occasions, and more restrictions on foreign journalists others years.
This includes, for example, the ban on foreign journalists to report from the Wangfujing street, under threat of losing their visa reporter if they do, or questioning on the subway to the television cameras. 
Given the approximately 3,000 legislators gathered today at the Great Hall of the People, west of Tiananmen Square, Wen gave an overview of the current country situation and advanced the goals of the communist regime in 2011 and also in the longer term, in this plenary will approve the XII Five-Year Plan (2011-2015).
In the five years that begins, the prime minister said, China will set an average annual growth of 7 percent, a goal considerably lower than the previous five years, in which the average was 11.2 percent. Will be five years, Wen revealed in the urban population for the first time exceed the rural in the long history of Oriental civilization, and now city dwellers account for 47.5 percent of the total, but by 2015 will be 51, 5 percent.
2015, Wen said the lawmakers, some of them in military uniforms and others dressed in traditional costumes of the ethnic groups they represent, will seek to "maintain the price level basically stable", will increase per capita income to rural annual rate of 7 percent, and will seek to increase life expectancy by one year (now around 74).
Wen also foresaw the creation of five years of 45 million urban jobs, housing for low income households for 20 percent of the urban population, and social security, now almost nonexistent for much of the Chinese to pay secured 70 percent of medical treatment. As for short-term objectives for 2011, the prime minister projected a GDP growth of 8 percent (2.3 percentage points less than in 2010), vowed to fight to ensure that inflation does not exceed 4 percent at the end of year (compared to 3.3 in 2010) and, ultimately, "a good environment to transform the economic development model." As if listening to the requests of "more jobs, more housing and more equal" one of the slogans of the organizers of the protests so far failed Peking Wangfujing Street and other central parts of China, Wen spent nearly a third of its speech promised social improvements for 2011.
Thus, Wen assured attention "to problems that cause great resentment among the masses as the unauthorized expropriation of arable land and the illegal demolition of houses," each year conflict that generate tens of thousands of protests across the country. Also, at another point coincident with the claims of the organizers of protests, the prime minister issued a stern warning to corrupt politicians and said the government "thoroughly solve problems related to government employees who abuse power for personal gain forget their duties or violate the rights of others.
" In particular, said Wen, will fight "extravagance, waste and formalism", reducing unnecessary meetings, the lavish expenditure of Communist leaders and other practices that have alienated the people of the communist regime. The prime minister opened with a speech two weeks of deliberations of the most important political meeting for China, which will be set state goals for the next five years.
The ANP is held surrounded by heavy security, including control of all vehicles entering Beijing from other provinces or the prohibition of the use of the capital's airspace, including the use of traditional kites. This year, moreover, Beijing fears a spread of social unrest in Arab countries to China, with the aforementioned "jasmine protests," has generated even more security on other occasions, and more restrictions on foreign journalists others years.
This includes, for example, the ban on foreign journalists to report from the Wangfujing street, under threat of losing their visa reporter if they do, or questioning on the subway to the television cameras.
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