BEIJING, April 25 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislature deliberated a report concerning conditions and law implementation in prisons, among three reports, on Wednesday, the second day of an ongoing bimonthly session.
Earnings of prison-run enterprises no longer act as the primary financial source for Chinese prisons, said Minister of Justice Wu Aiying during the report to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC).
Wu said funding for China's prisons is now mainly provided by central and provincial government spending.
Security conditions in China's prisons have been improved. The number of prisoners who escaped in 2011 was 86.7 percent lower than that of 2005, and cases of serious incidents in jails reduced by 72.7 percent in the same time frame, the Minister of Justice added.
Minister of Water Resources Chen Lei delivered a report to legislators on agricultural and water resources development.
The country's investment in water resources will reach 4 trillion yuan (634.8 billion U.S. dollars) by 2020, Chen said.
Total investment in water resources amounted to a record high of 345.2 billion yuan last year, 231.1 billion yuan of which came from local governments, indicated a separate report from the ministry.
Chen elaborated on problems with farmland irrigation and water conservation projects, suggesting further increasing investment and developing water-saving irrigation and dry farming to a large scale.
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