POST-CRISIS ERA: POTENTIAL FOR BRIC COUNTRIES TO DEEPEN COOPERATION IN S&T INNOVATION

10 specific measures are implemented thereof:

• 1) Build more affordable and low-rent housing and expand the program to rebuild rural housing.

• 2) Speed and improve rural infrastructure construction. Increase rural biogas, the safety of drinking water and rural road construction projects, improve the rural power grids, speed up the major water projects (i.e. the construction of South-North Water Diversion) and dangerous reservoir reinforcement, and strengthen large-scale irrigation area.

• 3) Accelerate the expansion of the railways, highways and airports and other major infrastructure. Focus on building a number of passenger lines, coal projects and the western route rail line and improve the highway network to arrange for the central and western trunk and feeder airports airport construction, speed up urban power grids.

• 4) Upgrade the health and medical services by improving the grass roots medical system. Speed up the transformation of rural junior high schools, special education schools. Promote the central and western regions and the cultural construction of integrated township.