The Chinese government's moves to improve people's living standards have been well received by overseas experts and media.

The policies were outlined in Premier Wen Jiabao's government work report at the annual session the National People's Congress that opened last week.

Overseas attention was largely focused on income distribution, health care, education and social security, issues that were expounded in Wen's report.

Ernest Hongtu Wu, from Canadian Vancouver Coastal Health, told Xinhua healthcare was about serving people and the best way to do that was to take care of details.

The Chinese government "has made significant efforts and progress in being more conscious about people's welfare and dignity, particularly in events like the Sichuan earthquake," he said.

Hongtu said healthcare should definitely be more "people oriented" and provide detailed, thoughtful, and customized service to patients and the larger population.

"The healthcare system is an indicator of social equity, and social equity is a goal all governments are trying to achieve," he said.

"Most probably, China will build a healthcare system with Chinese characteristics, which, ideally, takes into account both equity and efficiency," he said.

Szonja Buslig, a sinologist at Hungary's Eotvos Lorand University, told Xinhua: "I think my expectation was absolutely satisfied in the field of education in China.."

"I think living in China could be the happiest period in someone's life," she said.

She has visited China many times and studied the Chinese language at Beijing Language and Culture University and archaeology at Peking University for two years.

"China is using the latest technology for developing training materials and methods. Using the possibilities of the Internet and computer technology makes teaching and learning more efficient and fun," Buslig said.

"Everywhere in this huge country the people were so helpful and friendly. I was very satisfied with the public security, the public transportation, the services etc," she said.

SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION

China should build a society with more equality, fairness and justice, said Dr. Guo Shengxiang, an economic researcher at the Reserve Bank of Australia.

To analyze China's social construction, one needed to look at four dimensions: standardizing ownership, the market's first distribution, the second allocation of tax, and the system of investment and capital circulation, said Guo.

"Systematic imbalances must be corrected by systematic reform," he said. "In this sense, 2010 is the first year of China's social construction."

Guo said the government must recognize housing's double characteristics as capital and commodity.

"Over a fairly long period, due to the relative scarcity of urban land supply, while the pace of urbanization is relatively fast, the government must guarantee the basic role of the construction of low-rent rooms and price-limited rooms," Guo said.

The government should increase the proportion of the primary distribution of income that goes to salaries and encourage the high-tech and middle class to obtain property income by minimizing the tax burden and providing priority investment and financing channels, Guo said.