Second, we will improve the system of basic old-age insurance for enterprise employees. We wil l carry out trials of individual accounts for basic old-age insurance, and work out reform measures for establishing a system of old-age insurance for employees of public service institutions.

Third, in conjunction with the reform to establish a salary system for civil servants based on position and grade, we will increase benefits for some people with special difficulties.

Fourth, we will conscientiously help solve the problem of people being unable to meet basic living expenses. We will accelerate the development of urban community health clinics and the establishment of urban and rural medical assistance systems to gradually solve the problem of inadequate and unaffordable medical services. We will establish a social welfare system and further consolidate the fruits of our efforts to ensure that all urban residents entitled to basic living allowances are now receiving them. We will thoroughly study ways to grant social security benefits to farmers whose land has been expropriated. We will support an employment system that treats urban and rural workers equally, work out a way as soon as possible to gradually resolve the issue of social security for rural migrant workers in the cities, incorporate all such workers into the workers' compensation program in accordance with the law, and explore suitable programs to pay for serious medical problems and old-age benefits for rural migrant workers. Localities that are able should explore ways to establish a system to guarantee that rural residents have a minimum standard of living. We will continue to do a good job of providing special assistance to entitled groups and helping demobilized military personnel return to civilian life. We will strongly support production safety and disaster prevention and relief work.

Fifth, we will do everything we can to prevent and control highly pathogenic avian flu. We will again increase spending on the development of the public health system and improve its ability to prevent and control serious diseases. We will ensure adequate funding for disease prevention and control and corresponding infrastructure requirements. We will also adopt effective fiscal and tax policy measures to support the development of the poultry industry, and work out ways to support the development of a public health system for preventing and treating diseases affecting humans, livestock and poultry in both urban and rural areas.

5. Promoting independent innovation and transforming the pattern of economic growth. Increasing our capacity for independent innovation is the key to raising China's scientific and technological level and core competitiveness, a major link in efforts to adjust the industrial structure and transform the pattern of economic growth, and the only path to sustained, steady and fast economic growth and sustainable economic development.