Highlights of China's income distribution reform plan(3)

RURAL POOR

-- The government targets reducing the number of people living below the poverty line of 2,300 yuan (366 U.S. dollars) in per capita annual net income at constant 2010 prices by around 80 million as of 2015.

-- Farmers will be guaranteed proceeds from transferring their contracted land plots and will collect higher revenues from gains in the land value.

-- Rural migrant workers will be helped to register as urban residents and benefit from all basic public services in cities.

-- The government will try to make farming more profitable by industrializing agricultural production and continuing to increase the minimum purchase prices of major grain products.

-- About 2.4 million poor residents in rural areas with harsh living conditions will be resettled in the 2011-2015 period.

-- A long-term mechanism to increase farmers' income will be established.

SOCIAL SAFETY NET

-- The government will expand the proportion of expenditure on social security and employment promotion in the total fiscal outlays by about 2 percentage points by 2015 from 2011.