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President Hu urges to promote social security system
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-05-23 21:30

BEIJING -- Chinese President Hu Jintao has called for acceleration of the coverage of a social security system in both urban and rural areas.

The social security system should be built under the principle of wide coverage, multi-layers, sustainable growth and meeting people's basic needs, He said Friday at a group study of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau.

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Hu, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said the social security system should focus on improving citizens' basic old-age pension and basic medical insurance service, with charity and commercial insurance as supplements.

Social security system concerns every citizen's health and happiness, and the Party committees and governments at all levels should fully understand the importance and urgency to improve the system which could enhance the building of a harmonious society, he said.