(六)更加注重社会建设，着力保障和改善民生　

6. Paying closer attention to social development to ensure the wellbeing of the people and improve their lives. 　　坚持优先发展教育。We will continue to give priority to developing education. 一是在全国城乡普遍实行免费义务教育。继续增加农村义务教育公用经费，提高保障水平。适当提高农村家庭经济困难寄宿生生活补助费的补助标准。认真落实保障经济困难家庭、进城务工人员子女平等接受义务教育的措施。在试点的基础上，从今年秋季起全面免除城市义务教育学杂费，这是推动义务教育均衡发展、促进教育公平的又一重大举措。

First, we will make free compulsory education universally available in both urban and rural areas. We will continue increasing regular expenditures for rural compulsory education and raise the level of budgetary allocations. We will appropriately increase living allowances for poor rural students residing on campus. We will take steps to ensure that children from poor families and children of rural migrant workers in cities enjoy the same access to compulsory education as others. After running trials in selected areas, we will completely stop collecting tuition and miscellaneous fees from all urban students receiving compulsory education starting this fall. This is another major measure for promoting balanced development of compulsory education and equal access to education.

二是大力发展职业教育。加强职业教育基础能力建设，深化职业教育管理、办学、投入等体制改革，培养高素质技能型人才。

Second, we must vigorously develop vocational education. We will strengthen the basic conditions for vocational education and deepen reform of the systems for administering, running and investing in vocational education programs in order to turn out high-quality skilled personnel.

三是提高高等教育质量。优化学科专业结构，推进高水平大学和重点学科建设。普通高校招生增量继续向中西部地区倾斜。

Third, we must raise the quality of higher education. We will improve the structure of academic disciplines and develop high-quality universities and key disciplines. Regular institutions of higher learning will continue to favor students in the central and western regions in expanding their enrollments　　　

办好各级各类教育，必须抓好三项工作：

To successfully provide education of various kinds and at different levels, we must focus on the following three tasks.

一要全面实施素质教育，推进教育改革创新。深化教学内容和方式、考试和招生制度、质量评价制度等改革。切实减轻中小学生的课业负担。

One, we must ensure that all students receive a well-rounded education, and promote educational reforms and innovations. We will deepen the reform of curricula, methods of instruction, the systems of examination and enrollment, and the system for evaluating educational quality, and lighten the study load of primary and secondary school students.

二要加强教师队伍特别是农村教师队伍建设，完善和落实教师工资、津补贴制度。

Two, we must improve the quality of teachers, especially in rural areas, and improve and implement the system of wages, allowances and subsidies for teachers.

三要加大教育事业投入。今年中央财政用于教育的投入，将由去年的1076亿元增加到1562亿元；地方财政也都要增加投入。进一步规范教育收费。鼓励和规范民办教育发展。没有全民教育的普及和提高，便没有国家现代化的未来。要让孩子们上好学，办好人民满意的教育，提高全民族的素质。　　

Three, we must increase investment in education. This year, central government allocation for education will increase from last year's total of 107.6 billion yuan to 156.2 billion yuan, and local governments will also increase their spending. We will further standardize the collection of education-related fees. We will standardize nonpublic education programs and encourage their development. China cannot modernize if education is not made universally available and if its quality is not improved. We must ensure that our children receive a good education, provide education that satisfies the needs of the people and improve the overall quality of the population.　　

推进卫生事业改革和发展。重点抓好四件事：

We will promote the reform and development of health care. Efforts will be focused on four areas:

一是加快推进覆盖城乡居民的医疗保障制度建设。扩大城镇职工基本医疗保险覆盖面；城镇居民基本医疗保险试点要扩大到全国50%以上的城市；在全国农村全面推行新型农村合作医疗制度，用两年时间将筹资标准由每人每年50元提高到100元，其中中央和地方财政对参合农民补助标准由40元提高到80元。健全城乡医疗救助制度。

First, we will accelerate the establishment of a system to ensure access to medical care for both urban and rural residents. We will expand the number of urban workers covered by basic medical insurance, and extend the trial of basic medical insurance for urban residents to over 50% of China's cities. We will fully implement the new type of rural cooperative medical care system in all rural areas. Within two years, we will raise the standard for financing from 50 yuan to 100 yuan per person per year, with central and local government contributions to be raised from 40 yuan to 80 yuan per person. We will improve the urban and rural assistance program for medical care.

二是完善公共卫生服务体系。抓好重大疾病防治，落实扩大国家传染病免疫规划范围的政策措施，加大对艾滋病、结核病、血吸虫病等疾病患者的免费治疗力度。加强地方病、职业病、精神病防治。做好妇幼保健工作。在中西部地区农村实行住院分娩补助政策。健全公共卫生服务经费保障机制。

Second, we will improve the public health service system. We will prevent and treat major diseases, implement policies and measures to increase the number of diseases covered in the state plan for immunization against communicable diseases, and provide free treatment for more people suffering from diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis and schistosomiasis. We need to work harder to prevent and treat endemic, occupational and mental diseases. We must do a good job in work related to the health of women and children. We will implement a policy of granting allowances to rural women in the central and western regions giving birth in hospitals. We will improve the mechanism for ensuring adequate funding for public health services.

三是推进城乡医疗服务体系建设。重点健全农村三级卫生服务网络和城市社区医疗卫生服务体系。加大全科医护人员和乡村医生培养的力度，鼓励高素质人才到基层服务。开展公立医院改革试点。制定和实施扶持中医药和民族医药事业发展的措施。

Third, we will continue development of the medical service systems for urban and rural areas. We will focus on improving the county, township, village three-tier rural health service network and the urban community-based medical and health service system. We will train more general practitioners, nurses and rural doctors and encourage high-caliber health workers to work in village and community clinics. Trial reform of public hospitals will be carried out. Measures will be formulated and implemented to support the development of traditional Chinese medicine and the folk medicines of ethnic minorities.

四是建立国家基本药物制度和药品供应保障体系，保证群众基本用药和用药安全，控制药品价格上涨。今年中央财政将安排832亿元，比上年增加167亿元，支持卫生事业改革和发展，重点向农村和基层倾斜。

Fourth, we will set up a national system for basic drugs and a system for ensuring drug supply to ensure the quality and adequate supply of basic drugs and hold down prices. This year the central government will allocate 83.2 billion yuan to support the reform and development of health care, an increase of 16.7 billion yuan over last year, with the focus of spending on facilities at the urban community and village level.　　

去年以来，国务院组织力量研究深化医药卫生体制改革问题，已经制定一个初步方案，将向社会公开征求意见。改革的基本目标是：坚持公共医疗卫生的公益性质，建立基本医疗卫生制度，为群众提供安全、有效、方便、价廉的基本医疗卫生服务。我们要坚定地推进这项改革，让人人享有基本医疗卫生服务。　

Last year the State Council commissioned a study of the issue of how to deepen reform of the system of pharmaceuticals and health care. A preliminary plan has been produced and will soon be publicized to solicit opinions from the general public. The basic goal of the reform is to maintain the public service nature of public medical and health care services and set up a basic medical and health care system to provide people with basic medical and health care services that are safe, effective, convenient and affordable. We must resolutely carry out this reform to provide everyone with access to basic medical and health services and improve their health.　　

加强人口和计划生育工作。稳定现行生育政策和低生育水平，提高出生人口素质，综合治理出生人口性别比偏高问题。全面实施计划生育家庭特别扶助制度，扩大实施农村计划生育家庭奖励制度和少生快富工程范围，提高奖励扶助标准。加强流动人口计划生育服务管理。　

We will improve work related to population and family planning. We will adhere to the current policy of family planning, keep the birthrate low, improve the health of newborns and adopt a full range of measures to address the gender imbalance in babies. We will fully implement the special assistance system for families that comply with family planning regulations, extend the coverage of the reward system for rural families that comply with the regulations, implement the “lower birthrate equals faster prosperity” project in more areas, and raise the level of rewards and assistance. We will improve services for the floating population and tighten supervision of them to ensure that they comply with the family planning policy.