Conditions of foreign-funded enterprises here have deteriorated in the past four months amid the global financial crisis, according to a municipal government report on Monday.

China concluded its annual two-day central rural work conference Sunday with a pledge to give priority to maintaining steady and relatively fast rural and agricultural development, ensuring supplies of farm produce and facilitating income increases for farmers in 2009.

Families of tainted milk-powder victims could receive up to 200,000 yuan ($29,000) compensation from major dairy companies in the coming weeks, media reports said.