Fairness hot issue on agenda for Party

BEIJING - Social equality and justice are likely to be highlighted in proposals for China's 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015), as part of the country's efforts to ease social conflict, a Beijing-based think tank said on Thursday.

"Due to the uneven distribution of income, the fruits of economic growth are not equally shared by the people, which has resulted in growing social conflict and instability," Liu Shanying, a political science researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told China Daily.

Liu's remarks came as the country gears up for the Fifth Plenary Session of the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, which is due to be held in Beijing from Oct 15 to 18.