Chinese Vice Premier Calls for Educational Poverty Alleviation, Medical Reforms

Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong visits students in a primary school in Huailai County in Zhangjiakou City. [cgbha.com/Yuan Minghai]

Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong has called for enhanced efforts to implement the country's educational poverty alleviation project and carry out medical reforms during a recent inspection tour in Zhangjiakou City, of north China's Hebei Province.

During an inspection of countryside schools, Liu stressed to need to improve basic facilities, show care to the study and lives of students from impoverished families, including "left-behind" children (whose parents have left their homes to find better-paying jobs in cities), build a network for children's development, cultivate a teachers' team with outstanding overall qualities rooted in rural areas, and narrow the education gap between urban and rural areas, to ensure that impoverished regions can enjoy more resources.

Liu also stressed that vocational education should meet the requirements of the country's industrial transformation and should be upgraded and offer support in technical talent for China's economic and social development, especially in less-developed areas.

During her inspection of primary health institutions and county-level hospitals, Liu talked to medical workers. She pointed out that county-level public hospitals are the major places for local residents to solve their health problems, so they should deepen their comprehensive reforms and improve the levels of their medical treatments, to offer local residents better health services.

In addition, Liu said that the medical "dispute resolving and risk sharing" mechanism should be improved, to safeguard the legal rights and interests of medical workers and patients and create harmonious doctor-patient relationships.

Liu also inspected the relics of the Great Wall, ancient villages and cultural units. Liu urged the local government to strictly follow the regulations on protecting the Great Wall and enhance the implementation of related laws. She also noted that various cultural heritages should be protected during the development of tourism and the countryside.

(Source: Xinhua/Translated and edited by Women of China)