The government will vastly increase spending on social security to improve people's livelihood and safeguard social stability and harmony.

The policy was announced during a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee yesterday.

The meeting, presided over by President Hu Jintao, also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, discussed a government work report to be submitted to next month's annual session of the 11th National People's Congress, the national legislature.