During an inspection tour of Guizhou Province from January 15 to 20, Vice-Premier Wu Bangguo has stressed that governments at all levels must do their best to help poverty-stricken enterprises and workers and make sure that relief funds for laid-off workers and pensions are allocated on time.
Vice-Premier Wu Bangguo has stressed that governments at all levels must do their best to help poverty-stricken enterprises and workers.
Wu made the remark during an inspection tour of Guizhou Province in southwest China from January 15 to 20. He visited poverty-stricken enterprises and families of poverty-stricken workers in the land-locked province.
Wu, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said that with the revamp of the economic structure and deepening reform of enterprises, some workers will be laid off.
Party committees and governments at all levels must exert their utmost efforts to help the laid-off workers and make sure that relief funds for laid-off workers and pensions are allocated on time, he said.
Wu said that offering a basic livelihood and re-employment for laid-off workers is crucial. He also required the local Party committees and governments to make conscientious efforts to solve the difficulties of poverty-stricken workers.
(People's Daily January 21, 2002)
