Li Keqiang, who will steer the world's second-largest economy and oversee the government, also vowed to curb public discontent by tackling inequality, at a press conference following the close of the largely rubber-stamp parliament on Sunday.
As a way to curb social discontent and negotiate an end to UN sanctions the Serbian leader, Slobodan Milosevic, eventually agreed to adopt a new currency - the "new dinar" - backed by gold and hard currency reserves.
There are murmurings among labor unions of a winter of discontent if spending curbs are too aggressive.
The president's efforts to curb military power have caused rising discontent among officers.
Mrs. Aquino's conciliatory overture to the insurgents must be accompanied by a curbing of the military abuses that have stirred discontent, particularly in areas where poorly trained and equipped troops have exercised often-unchecked power.
Deeply unpopular austerity measures, including slashed public wages, tax hikes and curbs on social spending will keep fanning public discontent in the Baltic states, Hungary and Romania.
Now, with oil below $50 and likely to persist at that level, they find themselves curbing public spending and fending off rising domestic discontent or even incipient revolt.
If he has his country's interests at heart, he will respond to rising discontent by opening up the economy and curbing corruption.
China's state news service is not subtle about its discontent, saying Clinton's trip is "aimed at curbing China's growing influence" and "stirring up disputes".
These policies promised a rapid boost to the local economy — which has happened — but absent from this blueprint were the issues that top the list of the Uighur discontent: discrimination, Han in-migration and the ever more invasive curbs on language, culture, religious expression".
The officer, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, made the pledge, to curb use of Egypt's so-called "emergency law," in an apparent attempt to mollify those who are discontent with the heavy-handed police tactics of the military-led government on the eve of the anniversary of the revolt that ousted President Hosni Mubarak.
