Shanghai Daily news

Shanghai plans to create half a million new jobs and improve health and community care services for its senior citizens this year, city spokeswoman Jiao Yang said yesterday.
Those goals are among the city's top 10 good deeds planned for 2005 to improve the daily lives of local citizens.
"The government finalized its 10 deeds after an extensive review of public opinion," Jiao told reporters at a municipal news conference.
Among the 500,000 new job opportunities that will be created, one-fifth are being targeted to laborers in the city's farm communities.
In addition, a three-year vocational training program for rural workers will be launched, with 50,000 farmers taking part in the first round.
Addressing its 1.4 million senior citizens, the city said it will provide more convenient physical access to hospitals, parks and cultural venues and give special discounts to the elderly.
It will also allocate more home-care services for the city's 160,000 elderly residents who live alone. And some 6,000 beds will be added to nursing homes and other facilities for seniors.
On the health care front, more medical treatment centers will be built at the sub-district, county and town levels to serve more than 7 million health insurance beneficiaries. And 24 rural clinics will be constructed.
In the infrastructure arena,  20 kilometers of new traffic lanes will be reserved for public transport, the installation of electronic traffic signs will be completed on elevated roads, and 45 Metro signs will be renovated.
Some 3,335 hectares of crop land will be fertilized with organic materials, and environmental supervision will be enhanced at 50 key enterprises.
The city will complete the construction of 3 million square meters of affordable apartments for residents who have been relocated from the downtown, and 40 old residential areas will be renovated.
To enhance community food safety, 100 wet markets conforming to sanitation standards will be put into operation.
Training programs will be conducted for 10,000 mentally retarded residents to improve their ability to adapt to society.
And internet-based "classrooms" will provide citizens with information and psychological counseling on family issues.
Looking back on the city's performance last year, Jiao noted that Shanghai invested 65.5 billion yuan (US$7.89 billion) in 56 key urban construction projects and raised the incomes of local farmers 10 percent to 7,337 yuan.