Ministries respond to major public concerns

Departments and ministries under the State Council, China's Cabinet, have responded to a series of public concerns in the past week, including rental housing, social relief and aid, social insurance, industrial heritage lists and teacher information management systems.

Public housing

The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has made public rental housing a key task of 2017. The ministry required local authorities to accelerate implementation of this task, in order to increase allocation of public rental housing for 2 million people this year.