Improving basic public services will be a key task for China in the next five years, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 17th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee announced Monday. Building a comprehensive and sustainable fundamental service system that worked in line with China's overall situation would help improve people's lives, said a communique released after the four-day plenum. The system should cover urban and rural areas, and promote equal fundamental public services, said the communique. The document called for employment promotion, increased incomes, strengthening of the social security system and accelerated reform and development of the healthcare sector. Concrete measures to sustain social harmony and stability should also be taken, said the communique released after the plenum examined and approved proposals for the formulation of China's 12th Five-Year Program (2011-2015) on national economic and social development. 