During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, it is suggested that efforts should be made to improve the social relief and assistance system from the following aspects.

Since the 1990s, China has gradually formulated a social relief and assistance system underpinned by minimum living allowances and provisions to destitute people as well as special assistance schemes for medical care, education, housing and employment.

The number of migrants’ children has been considerably increased.

And if addressed unwell, this issue could even trigger social problems.

In recent years, severe outbreaks of haze weather have frequently occurred in China’s heating season, which has become a general public concern.

Theoretical analysis demonstrates that investment rate and consumption rate can undergo inherent cyclical changes and the developing trends of their dynamic equilibrium value depend on the consumption structure, export structure, and industrial structure thereof.

Technologically advanced countries have generated intellectual property and gained huge benefits by reliance on resource-rich countries, whereas resource-rich countries have no institutional base to participate in sharing such benefits while bearing pressures on maintaining resources.