Think tank report warns of relations between public, gov't officials

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-09-12 21:39

This was one of the two major challenges to the stability of Chinese society, the report said. The other was social problems such as health care, unemployment, the widening gap between rich and poor and high housing prices.

Through the survey, the sociologists listed the 10 most serious social problems. High expense and a lack of access to medical services topped the list.

"It's very rare in other countries that health care was the most serious social problem," the report said. "Instead of a simple problem about poor medical service, it is related to the country's reform on all public service sectors."

It was the same important and difficult task of reforming state-owned enterprises to develop a sustainable and quality non-profitable service, it said.

The widening income gap was another key issue. The report suggested the administration work to increase rural residents income and urban residents income through home ownership and stocks.

Fighting corruption should be a major measure to regulate distribution of income as the public complained most about people who became rich through illegal means, it added.

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