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State Councilor Wang Yong has urged governments at all levels to provide more assistance to poor people.
He made the remarks during an inspection tour of Gan-zhou city in southern Jiangxi Province.
Wang urged the local governments to step up efforts to perfect the social relief system in the city, a traditional revolutionary base of the Party in the 1930s.
Wang visited needy families and veterans of the Red Army.
He inquired about their living conditions, family incomes and the children's education.
Wang said ensuring the basic living standard of poor people is the government's responsibility.
He added that governments at all levels should strengthen the construction of the social relief system, and increase financial input in this sector.
He said to ensure the basic livelihood of the needy is a top priority in their financial arrangement.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering have unveiled their selection of the top 10 domestic and international science news items from last year.
The top 10 domestic science news items include: the soft-landing of Chang'e-3 on the moon; the successful launch of the Shen-zhou-10 spacecraft; the quantum anomalous Hall effect being found in an experiment for the first time; tracing the source of H7N9 avian flu, and making important breakthroughs in studying inter-species transmission of H5N1 avian flu.
Filling out the domestic list are: Tianhe-2 remaining the world's top supercomputer; successful development of the world's lightest material; development of the world's only practical deep-ultraviolet diode-pumped solid-state laser; ultra-high resolution Raman imaging of a single molecule; the development of a nuclear power generator with the world's largest unit capacity; and the world's first microcry computer.
The top 10 international science stories are: a man-made space probe flying outside of the solar system; the first viable living tissue from a 3D printer; development of the world's first carbon nanotube computer; finding the four-stranded structures of human DNA; the capture of high-energy neutrinos from outside the lunar system for the first time; successful cultivation of human embryonic stem cells; the world's biggest astronomical telescope entering use; the first ultra-high definition 3D atlas of the human brain; the first long-range control between two human brains; and the launch of 32 satellites with one rocket.
