Chinese President Hu Jintao (L2) talks with the elders during his visit to a nursing home of Tianjin, North China, December 31, 2007. (Xinhua)
Chinese President Hu Jintao (L2) talks with local residents during his visit in the Hedong District of Tianjin, North China, December 31, 2007. (Xinhua)
Hu told the residents that the central government had been taking a series of measures to improve the housing and medicare conditions of low-income people.
“The Party and government are very much concerned about the housing problem of the low-income masses,” Hu said at the home of Gao Huilai, a resident in Hedong District of Tianjin.
He said, “The central government has made arrangements to speedup the low-rent housing system, improve the affordable housing system, and ease the housing difficulties of urban low-income families.”
While visiting a rest home, the president called for more care for the elders to make them spend soundly their late years.
The Chinese nation’s traditional virtue of showing respect for the elders should be promoted, he said.
The president also expressed New Year greetings to people at an assistance center for the employees in the mire of hard life and a vegetable market.
“The central government attaches great importance to commodity prices and has made it an important task to stabilize them,” Hu said. “A series of forceful measures have been taken and will continue to be taken to ensure the normal life of the masses.”
The prices of food, especially meat, have been soaring in the year 2007 across the country.
Hu also visited the Memorial to Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao and presented flower baskets to show respect for the former prestigious premier and his wife, urging officials to learn from Zhou’s diligence in work, devotion to the country and love for the people.
The president made the tour in the company of Zhang Gaoli, secretary of the Communist Party Committee of Tianjin Municipality, and acting mayor Huang Xingguo.
(Source: en.beijing2008.cn)
