China's surprising admission at National People's Congress: Its people are dissatisfied

BEIJING - The warnings from Chinese Premier Le Keqiang were unusually stark: China faces difficulties "of a kind rarely seen in many years." The economy is slowing and faces further downward pressure.

And perhaps most sobering for the nearly 3,000 delegates to the National People's Congress who listened to his address Tuesday, the people of China are unhappy with the government's performance in many ways.

"There is still public dissatisfaction in many areas such as education, health care, elderly care, housing, food and drug safety and income distribution," Le said, in a rare admission for a senior Chinese leader. The government is juggling a slowing economy with rising public demands for better services, a clean environment and an end to corruption and wrongdoing in government and food