"Our government should establish a housing supply system, which offers affordable houses to every family of urban residents based on their monthly income, in order to narrow the gap between the rich and the poor and to provide security to young people so that they can live and work in peace and set up their own businesses."

Zong Qinghou, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman of China's largest beverage maker, Hangzhou Wahaha Group

speaking at a press meeting Saturday.