Pension payment, healthcare needs 'will be solved'

The central government will try its best to solve issues concerning people's livelihoods, such as pension payments and health insurance, Premier Li Keqiang said on Wednesday.

Despite reports of sporadic cases of pension payment difficulties in some places, "there will be absolutely no problem for the government to meet the public's pension payment needs," Li said at a news conference at the end of the two sessions.

The national pension insurance reserve recorded a surplus of 340 billion yuan ($52.3 billion) last year, taking the cumulative figure to 3.4 trillion yuan since it was established in the late 1990s, according to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.