Premier ensures residents efforts are underway to better their lives

Premier Li Keqiang called for rebuilding shantytowns to help improve local residents' welfare and make a stable and healthy real estate market, during a visit to Shandong province on Friday.

On the third day of his inspection of the province, Li visited the shantytown along Jingshiyilu Street in Huaiyin district of the provincial capital of Jinan. The area is part of Jinan's plan to renovate old towns this year, and more than 4,700 families will benefit from the renovation project.