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Hu calls for common prosperity for ethnic group
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-05-16 09:41

Chinese President Hu Jintao, who has toured Yunnan Province over the past
few days, has urged people of different ethnic groups to be united and
make joint efforts to achieve common prosperity and development.

This undated picture shows Chinese President Hu Jintao (R5) talks with
local residents of Dai minority at Manga Village of Gasa Town, Jinghong
City, the Dai Autonomous Prefecture of Xishuangbanna, southern Yunnan
Province, southwest China. [Xinhua]

During his trip in this southwestern province, where a large ethnic
population lives, the Chinese leader visited local villages, factories
and research institutions, showing his interest in the implementation of
a scientific concept of development and the building of a harmonious
socialist society.

In talks with local business people, Hu called for fundamental change in
the mode of economic growth and readjustment in economic structure, in
order to maintain a sound biological environment while achieving economic
development and leading a rich life.

Chinese President Hu Jintao (L) talks with local residents of Ginuo
minority at Zhalu Village of Jinuoshan Town, Jinghong City, the Dai
Autonomous Prefecture of Xishuangbanna, southern Yunnan Province,
southwest China. [Xinhua]

In his visit to local villages in Simao City, Hu questioned villagers on
issues of family income, power supply, drinking water, schooling, and
medical services.

He called on a service center for poor urbanites and a help center for
migrant workers from the countryside in Kunming, the provincial capital.
He urged trade unions to help protect the rights of migrant workers.

The places Hu visited included a village of the Dai People, where
villagers have improved their income through hard work, as well as a
village of Jinuo People, a small ethnic group.

During his stay in these two ethnic villages, Hu greeted medical workers
to celebrate the International Nurse Day on May 12.

Hu, who is also the Chairman of the Central Military Commission, had a
meeting with senior Army officers from the barracks of the Chinese
People's Liberation Army (PLA) in Kunming.

Chinese School - Pay rises by 16% for State sector workers

CHINA / Top News

Pay rises by 16% for State sector workers
By Wang Zhenghua (China Daily)
Updated: 2006-04-29 07:00

The average income for people working in the State sector rose by 16 per
cent year on year to reach 5,000 yuan (US$630) for the first quarter of
the year.

Meanwhile, the average income for the sector including employees working
in governments, public-funded institutions and all companies (both
private and State-owned) rose by 15 per cent year on year to reach 4,700
yuan (US$590) for the first three months of the year.

Employees of an IT company works at the assembly line in this undated
file photo. The National Bureau of Statistics said the average income for
people working in the State sector rose by 16 per cent year on year to
reach 5,000 yuan (US$630) for the first quarter of the year. [newsphoto]

That was a five-year record, the National Bureau of Statistics said on
its website on Friday.

There were more than 109 million people working in governments,
public-funded institutions and State-owned/private companies last year.

For collective enterprises which are often set up with both private and
public cash the average income for the three-month period rose by 15 per
cent to 2,800 yuan (US$350).

Income growth averaged about 13 per cent in other sectors. There was no
information about migrant workers' incomes in the report.

"It is noticeable that as China's economy booms, incomes for this group
of urbanites are growing fast," said Zhuang Jian, a senior economist with
the Beijing office of the Asian Development Bank.

He added that income hikes could help foster domestic spending and reduce
the economy's heavy reliance on exports and fixed-asset investment.

But other experts warned that ordinary people, especially migrant
workers, were still being poorly paid.

In the manufacturing sector, pay growth lagged behind GDP growth by about
5 per cent per year between 1998 and 2003, said Su Hainan, director of
the Labour Salary Institute under the Ministry of Labour and Social
Security. In some coastal areas, factories do not even have enough
workers because of the low pay for migrant workers, he added.

Figures from the statistics bureau also showed that rural residents'
average net income rose by 11 per cent to 1,100 yuan (US$140) for the
first three months of the year.

Experts said the urban-rural income gap would keep growing.

According to the United Nations, Shanghai residents enjoy a standard of
living on par with people in Portugal. Yet living standards in some of
the most remote parts of China are closer to those in some poor African
countries.

Incomes of laid-off workers have also dropped, but Xu Fengxian, a
researcher at the Institute of Economics under the Chinese Academy of
Social Sciences, said urbanites' disposable income was "enjoying the best
period for years. The booming economy is fostering the rise of residents'
incomes."

According to a survey released by the National Bureau of Statistics on
Thursday of 56,000 urban families, per capita disposable income rose by
12 per cent in the first quarter, reaching 3,300 yuan (US$410).

Inflation-adjusted, that was a rise of 10.8 per cent, up 2.2 percentage
points over the same period last year.

But Hao Jinmin, an employee at the Beijing-based National Library of
China, said although people earn more, the cost of many things, from
vegetables to houses, is rising.

(China Daily 04/29/2006 page1)

Chinese School - China, Morocco agree to further promote co-op

CHINA / National

China, Morocco agree to further promote co-op
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-04-25 09:20

RABAT -- China and Morocco agreed here Monday to make joint efforts
towards continuous and further development of bilateral friendship and
cooperation in various fields.

The agreement was reached between Chinese President Hu Jintao and
Moroccan King S. M. Le Roi Mohammed VI during their talks held right
after Hu arrived in the Moroccan capital Rabat for a three-day state
visit.

China's President Hu Jintao (C) and his wife Liu Yongqing (L) are
welcomed by Moroccan King Mohammed in Rabat April 24, 2006. Hu kicked off
a three-nation tour of Africa in Morocco on Monday, boosting already
booming ties to a continent rich in the energy and minerals his country
needs to feed a fast-growing economy. [Reuters]

Hu said both China and Morocco are undergoing reform and development and
bilateral cooperation has entered a new development stage.

Hu made a three-point proposal to boost bilateral friendship and
cooperation.

The first is to continue high-level contacts, enhance governmental,
parliamentary and inter-political party exchanges, strengthen
consultations and cooperation in international and regional affairs, and
comprehensively promote bilateral friendship and cooperation.

The second is to take measures to expand bilateral trade and cooperation
in science and technology, telecommunications, agriculture, oil and gas
development, labor, project engineering and human resources training, and
encourage two-way investment.

The third is to further improve bilateral cooperation in education,
culture, health and tourism, speed up the implementation of the bilateral
tourism cooperation agreement, and promote exchanges among different
localities and non-governmental organizations of the two countries.

Hu said China pays great attention to the Sino-Moroccan ties and
bilateral relations have progressed smoothly since the two countries
forged diplomatic ties 48 years ago.

China appreciates Morocco's consistent one-China policy, said Hu.

Mohammed VI agreed with Hu, saying his country is ready to strengthen
cooperation with China in such fields as fishery, tourism, culture and
infrastructure.

Both sides also exchanged views on Sino-African relations and
international and regional issues of common concerns, and agreed to
further strengthen cooperation within the framework of the China-Africa
Cooperation Forum.

After the talks, the two leaders attended a signing ceremony for a series
of bilateral cooperative agreements in the fields of economy, trade,
science, technology, culture, health care and tourism.

Morocco is the third leg of Hu's five-nation tour which has already taken
him to the United States and Saudi Arabia, and will also take him to
Nigeria and Kenya.

China-Morocco trade reached 150 million U.S. dollars in 2005, increasing
by 28 percent compared with the previous year.

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