The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist
Party of China (CPC) met in Beijing?Friday to look at ways to
more fairly distribute incomes in society.
CPC General Secretary?Hu Jintao presided over the meeting.
A news release from the meeting said that China should uphold
and improve the system in which distribution according to work is
dominant and coexists with other modes of distribution.
The release said future reforms should concentrate on increasing
incomes of poorer people, expanding the moderate-income population,
effectively taxing high-income earners and banning illegal
income.
The discussion was aimed at finding ways to narrow the income
gap between people in different regions and within certain social
sectors.
The government will deepen its reform on the income system of
civil servants, and government employees should be paid according
to their occupation and rank and a unified standard should be
adopted, the released said.
It said the country will adequately increase the incomes of
government workers at the grassroots level.
It also stressed that people working in remote areas should be
provided subsidies and the incomes of employees of enterprises and
its retirees also need to be improved.
Basic pensions, subsidies provided to retirees of enterprises
should be properly raised, it said.
(Xinhua News Agency May 27, 2006)