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71 mln benefit from gov't subsistence allowances in China

Xinhua, January 30, 2015 Adjust font size:

Nearly 71 million poor people, or 5.3 percent of China's 1.3 billion population, enjoyed government subsistence allowances in 2014, Vice Civil Affairs Minister Dou Yupei announced Friday.

The number includes 52.09 million people who enjoyed rural subsistence allowances and 18.8 million who benefited from urban subsistence allowances, Dou said at a press conference.

"The standard of assistance and subsidies has been improved further," Dou said.

The government allocated nearly 154 billion yuan (24.64 billion U.S dollars) for these purposes in 2014.

To ensure fairness, Dou said the ministry would establish a system to verify the financial status of households and punish those who abuse the fund. Endi