Bringing Hunan Citizens a More Dignified Life
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CHINA DAILY WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2011 hunanspecial 11 Bringing Hunan citizens a more dignified life Migrant workers put under strict supervision. NUMBERS Governor promises more jobs are our brothers Under the 12th Five-Year and sisters. We Plan (2011-2015), the province and better health care for everyone will develop policies on pro- need a systematic tecting the environment, which 1.5 By FENG ZHIWEI served as governor of Gansu ment also looked for ways plan to solve includes paying for resources, trillion yuan AND ZHANG ZHAO province. In that time, he to improve the livelihood of the employment restoring the ecology, and a in GDP last year, a 1.3-fold visited 14 cities in Hunan and people, spending around 170 green GDP evaluation process increase from five years before The governor of Hunan has looked for ways to come billion yuan — more than half and urban living that takes resource consump- province, Xu Shousheng, has up with the money to improve of its revenues — for just that problem.” tion and environmental degra- said that they will definitely people’s lives. purpose. XU SHOUSHENG dation into consideration. find a long-term method for During People’s Congress The government has done GOVERNOR OF HUNAN The governor has also improving the livelihoods of meetings earlier this year, a number of things: living ‘‘ PROVINCE promised to give the people of both urban and rural people. Xu called for an economic allowances for urbanites and Hunan “clear air, clean water, 600 “Migrant workers are our model that allows everyone country folk were increased and safe food”. billion yuan brothers and sisters,” said Xu, to share the fruits of devel- substantially, while the price of province. “Now, if your child is found “The continued improve- in industrial output in 2010, up who is an economist and son opment. commodities was stabilized. It “We’re working on a green to have high levels of lead with ment of people’s lives will 1.7 times from 2006 of a fisherman. “And we need Last year, Hunan made “a also came up with a health plan GDP — one that ensures in his blood, the government come when all low-income a systematic plan to solve their pile” last year, with a GDP of where handicapped children sustainable development and will treat him for free,” Xu people have a place to live, employment and urban living more than 1.5 trillion yuan below the age of seven, from profits everyone,” explained declared. when the price of goods is problem.” ($229.8 billion), or 1.3 times poorer families, are given free Xu. The government said it stable, when employment is “We’ll find more ways to the figure of five years previ- medical care. In recent years, some scan- plans to spend more on these no longer a headache for col- make sure that people live hap- ous. dals involving lead poisoning and similar problems, and lege graduates, when affordable 170 pier and more dignified lives.” Its industrial output amount- Green growth and cadmium-tainted rice that Changsha, Zhuzhou and healthcare is easily accessible, billion yuan Less than four months ago, ed to 600 billion yuan, up 1.7 Hunan is also making an put Hunan’s heavy metal pol- Xiangtan will be pilot cities in and when nature and the envi- spent on improving people’s Xu was appointed acting gov- times, for the same period. effort to preserve resources lution problems in an uncom- the pollution control program. ronment are pollution-free,” Xu lives in 2010 ernor of Hunan, aer having The provincial govern- and become an eco-friendly fortable spotlight. Major industries there are being concluded. Full employment is the basis of happiness By ZHOU QING describing the exact employ- vocational high schools. The tion and maintenance, animal But, Liu was able to study AND CHAI HUA ment services. city government of Chang- husbandry, crop planting and vehicle repairs at a govern- Over the past five years, sha, capital of Hunan, has agricultural product process- ment training school and has In response to a statement the provincial government spent 1.48 billion yuan on a ing. now opened his own garage by the Chinese premier this has developed projects that vocational education center. e graduates get a recom- where he makes a respectable year that employment needs increase employment, and has Another 4.5 billion yuan has mendation from the training income. to be given priority in eco- spent 13.56 billion yuan ($2.09 been spent on a vocational sci- school, which is instrumental One other government plan nomic development, Hunan billion) on subsidies. ence park in Zhuzhou. in finding a satisfactory job, — order-oriented education province is doing just that and It provided 3.35 million new The city of Xiangtan has according to the government. — has provided a successful ‘Chinese Bridge’ competition, a Chinese-language proficiency has increased employment urban jobs and moved more worked with local civil affairs, Some graduates even start solution to the problem of contest for foreign college students, has become more popular rates under this Five-Year Plan than 4 million rural people human resources, finance, their own businesses. farmers without enough land. among foreigners. (2006-2010). to jobs in other places. It is the and education departments One such grad, Liu Bing, a One industrial zone in the In following Wen Jiabao’s first province to achieve zero- in providing free training and veteran from the town of Shi- city of Zhuzhou began using idea and putting policy into unemployment among urban employment programs for tan, is even considered a sort of this order-oriented approach practice, the Hunan people’s families, in central China. military veterans. model: “Aer being demobbed for poorer farmers, whose land Talented people congress passed a “Proce- Hunan now has nine key e training covers practi- in 2008, I was totally lost about had been taken for the zone, in dures for Implementing the higher-level vocational high cal skills, such as auto repairs, the future because I didn’t have September, 2010. Employment Promotion Act”, schools and 81 key secondary electrical equipment installa- any skills.” It is expected to retrain are a precious 3,200 farmers over a three- year period then recommend them for work in companies in the zone. commodity Wen Wang, a farmer in a village near Zhuzhou, said By CHAI HUA companies in engineering, he was satisfied with the pro- and the automotive, electronic gram, “e training gave us an e government of Hunan communications, new materi- opportunity to get professional province, like most other als, biomedical, high-tech, skills and assured us of a better places, faced growing pressure and securities and investment life aer leaving our land.” from the field of education, so industries. Each year, more than 1.5 it decided to increase its activ- If foreigners decide to work million rural laborers get free ity in “developing the province in the city, they will see that the training. Even though they through education”. government appreciates their have lost their land, the train- So, it came up with regula- intelligence and hard work, ing sees to it that they can still tions that were meant to make according to one local govern- benefit. At the same time, the compulsory education more ment official. training provides more trained balanced. ese included: bet- It has even come up with people for the enterprises in ter infrastructure to guarantee a “Star city friendship award” the industrial zone. access to education among the to honor foreign experts who e decision makers in the more vulnerable members of make a big contribution. Hunan government say they society, ensuring that there To provide an education for believe that people’s liveli- were enough faculty, and that foreign experts’ children, the hood is based on employ- teaching quality was high. city government also built an ment, and that increasing the e result has been consid- international school at a cost financial and material input erably improved education and of 10 million yuan, in the eco- in employment will increase scientific development over the nomic development zone. their happiness. So, the past five years, the government The province’s advantages government will continue says. have attracted the attention developing employable skills By 2010, the province had of people from all over the PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY and professional training on 25,300 schools and 11.47 mil- world. The American Presi- Children of rural people who work in cities are expected to get the same education opportunities as children of urban workers. a larger scale. lion students. e enrolment dent Barack Obama has even rate for elementary school mentioned the fast computers children was an impressive and high-speed railways that 99.92 percent, and for junior are made in Hunan. high children, 99.96 percent. In a knowledge-based Also by 2010, there were economy, talented personnel Gov’t taking livelihood into consideration 60,975 teachers who had are a precious commodity and attended teachers training Hunan’s decision makers said By HAO NAN concerned about is housing, total spending. One of the people affected the Xiangya No.2 Hospital programs at the province level, they will put much more effort employment, health, and “Housing is one of their said, “We want to express our at Central South University, and 6,064 college grads teach- into cultivating, attracting and Although he majored in education,” Zhou explained. most basic needs. Everyone gratitude to the local govern- in the capital city Changsha, ing in rural schools. retaining talented personnel.