Special Report: Reconstruction After Earthquake
BEIJING, April 13 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government has promised to help survivors of last year's devastating Wenchuan earthquake to move into new houses before the end of this year, according to a human rights document published here on Monday.
The rebuilding of collapsed or seriously destroyed
farmers' houses will be basically completed to ensure they can "move into new
houses by the end of December 2009," says the National Human Rights Action Plan
of China (2009-2010).
The government will take a series of measures to
provide jobs for over 1 million people in the restoration areas, with emphasis
on finding a job for at least one member of each jobless family, according to
the document, published by the Information Office of the State Council, or
Cabinet.
In these areas, the state will ensure urban
residents' average disposable income and rural residents' average net income
surpassing the levels before the earthquake, with a secured basic living
standard for all people in the quake-devastated areas, says the action plan.
The government will rebuild and restore elementary
and middle schools to a higher safety level, and priority is given to restoring
and rebuilding county-level hospitals and public service institutions for
disease prevention and control, women's and children's health care and family
planning, as well as township-level clinics and township family planning service
centers.
"Persistently supervising and checking the use of
relief funds and materials to ensure that they are all sent to and used for
people in the disaster-hit areas and for the smooth progress of the
rehabilitation and reconstruction work", says the action plan.