Chinanews, Beijing, Mar. 13 – A recent poll shows that most (65.2%) people are concerned with the ongoing National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee sessions, with two-thirds of these people saying they “are deeply concerned”.

 

The poll was jointly carried out by the Social Investigation Center of the China Youth Daily and the Information Center of Tencent website. About 5,454 people responded to the survey, with 90% of them below the age of 35.

 

46.8% of the people in the survey believe that housing problem will improve this year.

 

People also highly expect that the central government will solve problems in the medical service sector this year. Last year, the central government said that Chinese medical service is public service in nature and China would promote the new pattern of rural cooperative health system nationwide. This seems to offer a glimmer of hope to people who wish to rely on the government to solve the medical issue. In the survey, 46.8% of the people believe that the difficulty in getting medical service and the high medical costs problem will turn for the better this year.

 

While waiving the tuition and fees of children in rural areas in compulsory education period, the government also promises to add more input to the scholarship and the grant-in-aid systems. 45.4% of the people in the survey expect that with these measures, more people can receive education fairly and overcharging problem in education can be resolved.

 

With more senior officials including Cheng Liangyu, Qiu Xiaohua and Zheng Xiaoyu being punished, Chinese people see government's determination in fighting against corruption. In the survey, 43.7% of the people think that corruption will be contained to some extent in 2007.

 

In addition, over 30% of the respondents believe that progress will be made in social security, environmental protection, income and employment issues.