China issues first public services plan

 BEIJING, July 18 (Xinhua) -- The State Council, or China's cabinet, has issued the first national plan for public services, the country's top economic planning agency said Wednesday.

The government will intensify¹ its efforts to improve basic public services and promote equal access to these services for all people during the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2011-2015), the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said.

Establishing a basic public services system will help protect the people's interests, accelerate the country's economic growth and boost domestic demand, the NDRC said.

The government will specify² the range of basic public services in the plan, including public education, labor³ and employment services, social insurance and basic housing services.

The government will channel more social resources toward rural areas, poor regions and vulnerable social groups in order to ensure that all people have equal access to basic public services, the NDRC said.

In addition, the government will give full play to market mechanism⁴ in providing public services and encourage social forces to meet the rising demand for such services, the NDRC said.

1 intensify   

vt.加强；变强；加剧

参考例句：

• We must intensify our educational work among our own troops.我们必须加强自己部队的教育工作。
• They were ordered to intensify their patrols to protect our air space.他们奉命加强巡逻，保卫我国的领空。

2 specify   

vt.指定，详细说明

参考例句：

• We should specify a time and a place for the meeting.我们应指定会议的时间和地点。
• Please specify what you will do.请你详述一下你将做什么。

3 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

4 mechanism   

n.机械装置；机构，结构

参考例句：

• The bones and muscles are parts of the mechanism of the body.骨骼和肌肉是人体的组成部件。
• The mechanism of the machine is very complicated.这台机器的结构是非常复杂的。