People in China have been giving growing attention to the social development and life quality in recent years. A subject under review named "the institution of an appraisal system with life quality as its guide" issued by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) under the State Council, or the central government, had undergone experts' examinations and appraisals in Beijing on Sunday or May 13.

Ding Yuanzhu, leader of this subject group and a research fellow of the Academy of Macroeconomic Research under the NDRC, noted that the life quality covers the objective and subjective aspects, with the objective life quality implying the level of economic growth and the economic income it brings to the people and the services they receive, including public services they get based on the social economic development. The subjective life quality refers to the people's subjective feelings or sentiments and the level of their satisfaction with respect to the objective life quality. To set up an "estimate system based life quality as the guide" is to merge or integrate the objective side with the subjective sides.

This subject group selects the beautiful east China city of Hangzhou as a model for a one-year study and has collected the relevant data on the life quality appraisal systems of major countries around the world, and formed a life quality appraisal system appropriate for China's demand, set forth a life quality valuation system that covers 45 indexes in five major categories including the natural environment and living conditions, outgoing trips and public security, social wealth and medical service, education and cultural entertainment, and social participation and the social equity, of which 20 are subjective indexes.

By People's Daily Online