【正确答案】The new cooperative medicare system will certainly enhance farmers' ability to shield themselves from risks of being unable to afford a cure when they are seriously ill and will help prevent farmers from falling into or falling back to poverty because of catching diseases. In Chinese rural areas, there are about 30 million people still in poverty and 60 million living close to the poverty line. China aims to build a moderately prosperous society in two decades, and it is the key issue in reaching this goal to raise the living standards of farmers, who account for 70 percent of the Chinese population. This shows that it is hardly possible to realize the goal of building a moderately prosperous society without a solution to farmers' medicare problem. The Chinese government is resolute to set up a new cooperative medicare system for the 900 million farmers and the system had basically covered all farmers up to 2010.