BEIJING - Premier Wen Jiabao has called for greater efforts to improve people's livelihood in an article to be published Thursday in Qiushi, or "Seeking Truth," the official magazine of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.

Wen, a Standing Committee member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, touches on topics such as the transformation of the economic growth pattern through technology, promoting educational and cultural development, employment, increasing urban and rural people's income, the social safety net and medicare reform in the article.

The article says improving people's livelihood is an important way to adjust the growth mode and expand domestic demand.