When Premier Li Keqiang walked into the kitchen of Pudong villager Wu Longqian’s home on Feb 13, he checked the quality of the drinking water. He told officials that there should be no compromise in the quality of drinking water in mountainous areas, adding that the government has promised clean drinking water to those living in mountainous areas.

In the government work report issued last year, Li had said that the problem of safe dinking for 60 million rural residents will be solved in 2014.