The central government would carry out this year to advance medical reforms for the improvement of medical services to people both in urban and rural areas.
China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Thursday that it would take measures to ensure supply of daily necessities that have been threatened by rising global commodity prices and a lingering drought.
Non-Beijing residents must have paid their monthly social security contribution or income tax for five consecutive years before they are eligible to buy their first apartment in the city.
Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang said the country would fight the toughest battle to reform the health care system in 2011, as he called for practical measures towards accomplishing the reform.
China's Cabinet, the State Council, has ordered greater efforts to contain the spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and improve medical services for HIV carriers and AIDS patients.
