"Harmonius Society" (和谐社会) is a concept raised by the Chinese government (Hu-Wen Administration) during the 10th Annual meeting of the Chinese National People's Congress in March of 2005. This article is on the politics of Mainland China. ... The Hu-Wen Administration (Or Hu-Wen New Administration, 胡温新政) is the name given to the Chinese leadership after Jiang Zemin, whose official start date was 2003. ... The Great Hall of the People, where the NPC convenes The National Peoples Congress (全国人民代表大会 in Pinyin: Quánguó Rénmín Dàibiǎo Dàhuì, literally Pan-Nation Congress of the Peoples Representatives), abbreviated PNCOTPR, is the highest legislative body in the Peoples Republic of China. ...

The top Chinese leadership held a series of meetings at the Diaoyutai State Guest House on the eve of the NPC to thrash out an approach to the country’s mounting social problems. The conclusion was the need for a new ideological campaign to shift the focus of official rhetoric from “economic growth” to “social harmony”. The Great Hall of the People, where the NPC convenes The National Peoples Congress (全国人民代表大会 in Pinyin: Quánguó Rénmín Dàibiǎo Dàhuì, literally Pan-Nation Congress of the Peoples Representatives), abbreviated PNCOTPR, is the highest legislative body in the Peoples Republic of China. ...

President Hu Jintao launched the campaign with a speech to the NPC calling for the building of “a harmonious society”. He summed up his conception as the development of “democracy, the rule of law, justice, sincerity, amity and vitality” as well as a better relationship between the people and the government and “between man and nature”. Hú Jǐntāo (born December 21, 1942) became General Secretary of the Communist Party of China on November 15, 2002. ...

Behind these high-sounding ideas are a corresponding list of social problems: the lack of democratic rights, endemic official corruption, a huge and growing gulf between rich and poor, widening disparities between rural and urban areas as well as chronic unemployment, an appalling record of industrial disasters and severe pollution. The failure of Beijing to address any of these issues has provoked escalating protests. Dorothea Langes Migrant Mother depicts destitute pea pickers in California during the Great Depression. ...   Beijing? (Chinese: 北京; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Pei-ching; Postal System Pinyin: Peking) is the capital of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ...

In his speech, Premier Wen Jiabao promised to spend 10.9 billion yuan ($US1.3 billion) on the “re-employment” of millions of laid-off workers and another 3 billion yuan to improve industrial safety, especially in the country’s coal mines. He pledged to abolish central government’s agricultural tax on 730 million farmers and provide education subsidies for poor rural children. Wen Jiabao (Simplified Chinese: 温家宝; Traditional Chinese: 溫家寶; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Wen Chia-pao) (born September 1942) is the Premier of the State Council of the Peoples Republic of China. ...

Wen specifically referred to the 140 million rural migrant workers who form the backbone of China’s cheap labour force. “A mechanism will be promptly set up to ensure migrant workers in cities get paid on time and in full, and the work of getting their back wages paid to them will be continued,” he said. Official estimates put the backlog of unpaid wages as high as $US12 billion.