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| China's Wen pledges to address 'great resentment' |
| 2011-03-06 |
| China must work to tackle 'great resentment' among its people over growing income disparity, corruption and rising prices, the country's prime minister, Wen Jiabao has said, vowing his government would work harder to meet public demands. In a "state of the nation" speech opening the annual 10-day session of the nation's rubber-stamp parliament, Mr Wen admitted that despite China's great economic growth, his government had "not yet fundamentally solved a number of issues that the masses feel strongly about." These included high food and housing prices, "significant problems concerning food safety and rampant corruption", and people being illegally kicked off their land to make way for unrestrained property development. China's leaders have watched nervously as the Middle East has been swept by democratic revolutions and has cracked down hard on any attempt to foment a "jasmine-style" revolution in the country. Its fears are reflected in a massive internal security budget of almost £60 billion, which exceeds the £57 billion that China announced that it will spend on its armed forces this year. |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #2 Issue each Fixed to reflect past practice. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2011-03-06 20:35 |
| #1 Issue each soldier an additional 100 cartridges? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-03-06 13:30 |