BEIJING -- President Xi Jinping on Tuesday stressed the importance of preventing and controlling major risks through the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Xi, also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, made the remarks while meeting representatives from the public security. Xi said those working in the sector should improve their political awareness and maintain the authority and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee. They should be sober-minded about the difficulties and challenges facing them, and deal with major risks, he said. Xi stressed that better social governance would better solve various social problems. He told the representatives to make social governance more systematic, rational, intelligent and in accordance with rule of law. Social governance should be improved through advanced theory, a scientific attitude, professional methods and appropriate standards. He demanded better coordination and ability to predict and prevent risks, and improve the precision and efficiency of social governance. Xi noted that development and stability were the absolute principles, so both should be dealt with by strong hands. "We should continue with social governance through socialism with Chinese characteristics, and become adept in converting the leadership of the Party and the advantages of our socialist system into advantages of social governance," he stressed. Xi asked for more efforts to improve social governance by socialism with Chinese characteristics to ensure that the people lead prosperous lives, society stays in order and the country enjoys long-term peace and stability. Over the past five years, officials in the sector have come up with new ideas, mechanisms and methods, solving a number of major problems, improving the sense of security and satisfaction of the people, and contributing to a stable environment for reform and development, the president noted. Premier Li Keqiang and Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli also attended the meeting. After the meeting, model individuals and units were recognized for their contributions to public security and social governance. Surveys show that the public's sense of security has improved in the past few years with their satisfaction index rising to 91.99 percent in 2016 from 87.55 percent in 2012. Police nationwide held campaigns against terrorism, telecom fraud, underground banks, personal information infringement and crimes related to guns and drugs, among others. China has also made use of Internet technology in its social governance. The Ministry of Public Security has helped find 1,274 missing children with the help of a system called "Tuanyuan," or reunion, a pop-up platform on which information on 1,317 missing children has been shared since its launch in 2016. jordan wristband rubberprinted wristbandsbat fidget spinner
In Gansu province's Gannan Tibetan autonomous prefecture, "No Littering" is not just printed on signs along the streets but is also written into every village's covenant - a list of rules for which residents voted - so it sticks in people's minds. The local government initiated a campaign called "No Trash in Sight" two years ago. Now the rule covers the whole jurisdiction. Around 403 villages in Gannan have earned the title Model Village of Ecological Civilization, an honor for accomplishing the objectives of the campaign. The number of such villages will grow to 1,500 by 2020 under a plan by the local government. It's easier said than done. People used to think that littering was a minor misbehavior, even though trash could be seen all around cities, villages and along highways. "At first, I doubted whether this was just a show," Yang Lin, a resident of Hezuo, said of the anti-littering effort. "After all, littering is such a small thing." But she soon noticed civil servants cleaning streets regularly, and more volunteers joining the campaign. It gradually became routine for every neighborhood in the city. Plastic bags are no longer offered in the supermarket. People who toss their cigarette butts on the ground get a fine. "My little daughter will now put the snack wrapper in her pocket and throw it in a trash bin," she said. Outside the city, the task is harder. "The hygiene in our village was poor," said Wu Shiying, 62, who lives in Lazan, a model village a 10-minute drive east of Hezuo. "Garbage, feces and piles of dirt were everywhere," he said. Over the past two years, the local government has invested more than 1 million yuan ($147,000) in village renovations, replacing dirt roads with concrete ones and building new public toilets. In the center of the village, a billboard was erected to display the covenant for protecting the environment. It specifies what residents will do to ensure the cleanness and tidiness of public areas. Residents divided themselves into three groups, managing village hygiene in designated areas, depending on where they live. "There shouldn't be any difference inside the home or out on the street," the covenant reads. Wu is head of the third group, and organizes cleanups on Tuesdays and Fridays. "I didn't care too much about the environment before, but my wife joined the campaign," said Tibetan resident Rigzin Dorjee, 34. "Now I realize that the cleaner the environment, the happier my heart." A government fund of more than 5 billion yuan has been created for communities across the prefecture to boost tourism. "These model villages will be like pearls on the grassland, attracting people to visit Gannan," said Yu Chenghui, Party chief of the prefecture. The prefecture received around 10 million visits in 2016, up from 5 million in 2014. [email protected]
