Welfare benefits will also be improved in rural areas to reduce the gap in standards of living between town and country.

农村地区的福利待遇也将改善，以减少城乡间生活水平的差距。

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Even peasants who have been living for several years in cities are still classified as rural residents, and as such are often excluded from urban welfare schemes.

甚至是在城市居住多年的农民仍然被定为农村居民，因此而不能享受城市福利待遇。

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We will improve the urban and rural social welfare system.

完善城乡社会救助体系。

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Its practice is more questionable: it has often resembled an expensive rural welfare programme.

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Lavish spending on rural welfare since 2004, when the Congress party won power in Delhi, will also help.

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The Planning Commission said the main reason for the reduction in poverty was the government's increased spending on rural welfare programmes.

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