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BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese government plan issued Tuesday promises to spend more on schools, health care and aid for farmers in the poor countryside, where communist leaders worry about potentially explosive unrest over poverty and other problems.
The document, released by the Cabinet, is the first in a series setting out priorities for 2006. It comes as Beijing tries to assure rural China, home to 800 million people, that it is making progress in spreading prosperity to farmers, poor workers and others left behind by the nation's 26-year economic boom.
The plan "makes it clear that China is tilting fiscal investment to agriculture and farmers, and shifting the focus of infrastructure construction from cities to countryside," the official Xinhua News Agency said in announcing the plan.
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