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Farmer Tong Fengkui visited the local bureau of letters and visits to file complaints more than 200 times over the last decade as he saw many problems which could not be solved in his village.
These problems, including misappropriating lands by the government and embezzlement of public funds, came as life in his village in northeastern China's Heilongjiang Province turned better in recent years.
Tong's eagerness in filing complaints to the government shows that as farmers become wealthy, they are paying more attention to their own interests and they are active in "preventing their share of the fruit of economic development from being swallowed by a powerful few."
Chinese President Hu Jintao Wednesday told members of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau that efforts should be made to "earnestly solve problems concerning people's immediate interests" and "always maintain people's fundamental interests".
Hu, also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, said, "Development is for the people, depends on the people and the fruit of development must be shared by the people."
He made the remarks when presiding over the 16th group study for the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau, whose theme was understanding and practicing modernization since the founding of New China.
He said the Party aimed to let all the people "march toward common prosperity".
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