The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has pledged to push forward the efforts to build a harmonious socialist society in the country.

This is one of the major points of the CPC Central Committee's proposal for formulating the 2006-2010 national program for economic and social development, which was released here Tuesday.

To build a harmonious socialist society, efforts should be made to further strengthen social construction and improve the social management system, and improve the social management pattern under which CPC committees play the leading role and the government takes responsibility supported by social coordination and public participation, it says.

The proposal urges efforts to expand employment, improve the social security system, straighten out distribution, and develop social undertakings, so as to well handle problems concerning the interests of different groups and the fundamental interests of the masses.

An active employment policy should be adopted, and the role of the market should brought into full play.

A social security system fitting the nation's economic development level should be established and improved, and greater efforts should be made to protect the rights of women and children, and develop handicapped welfare in a positive way, the proposal says.

According to the document, it is important to readjust income distribution in a proper way, enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the people, and invest more in the health sector and improve the public medical service system.

Efforts should be made to safeguard the people's life and property, by adopting strict measures to prevent industrial accidents in the coal-mining industry and other dangerous sectors, to reduce traffic accidents, tighten disaster control, and strengthen supervision over food, medicine and health conditions of the catering sector.

(Xinhua News Agency October 17, 2005