摘要
Provisional Measures for Social Aid Promulgated The State Council promulgated the Provi- sional Measures for Social Aid, which will take effect on May 1. This is the first decree to cover all eight of China＇s social assistance pro- grams - subsistence allowance, support for the extremely poor, disaster relief, medical aid, educational subsi- dies, housing subsidies, employment aid and temporary allowance. The basic content of the statute consists in the participation of societal forces. It outlines a complete, clearly defined system of social aid.
Self-sufficient Food Supply China’s recently released Food and Nutrition Development Outline 2014-2020 set the goal of securing the country’s annual grain output at above 550 million tons by 2020.According to Zhang Hui,an official from the Ministry of Agriculture,China has long adhered to the principle of self-dependence in food sup-
