长期以来,我们在经济与社会发展中存在着一条腿长、一条腿短的问题,而农村社会发展这条腿更短。农村教育、卫生等社会事业发展滞后,公共服务严重不足,是农村发展中最薄弱的环节,也是农民反映最强烈的问题。这两年我们在农村教育和卫生方面己采取了不少措施,成效很大,但问题依然 For a long time now, we have a long-legged and short-legged problem in economic and social development, and we have a shorter leg of rural social development. The lagging development of social undertakings such as education and health in rural areas and the serious lack of public services are the weakest links in rural development and the strongest problems for peasants. In the past two years, we have taken a number of measures in education and health in rural areas and have achieved great success but the problems remain