The State Council, China's Cabinet, on Thursday issued a plan on the correction of the wrong work style of officials that was detrimental to the interests of the public this year.
According to the plan, the priorities this year for the correction of official wrong activities are to prevent the return of a heavy financial burden for farmers. This has been drastically cut by scrapping agricultural tax and curbing illegal levies on farmers over the past few years.
Efforts would also be made to ensure the safety of public funds regarding social security, housing, poverty eradication and disaster relief.
The public housing fund, established when China reformed its housing system in the 1990s, was designed to help medium- and low-income earners buy houses. Employees were required to contribute 5 to 12 percent of their salaries to the fund, matched by employers. The fund's mortgage loans carry lower rates than commercial mortgages.
Statistics show more than 110 million Chinese residents had been covered by the housing fund through 2007.
The plan stressed that misappropriation, embezzlement, graft and swindling in handling such funds would be seriously dealt with.