National employment at year-end stood at 774.80 million persons, went up 4.90 million persons year-on-year. Of the total, the employment in primary industry reached 306.54 million persons, occupied 39.6 percent of national employment; that of secondary industry amounted for 211.09 million persons, accounted for 27.2 percent; that of tertiary industry totaled 257.17 million persons, took up 33.2 percent. The employment at year-end in urban areas valued at 302.10 million persons, increased 8.60 million persons, year-on-year. Of the total, the employment at year-end in urban units accounting for 121.93 million persons, rose by 1.69 million persons year-on-year. The on-duty staff and workers at year-end in urban units standing at 115.15 million persons, growing 8.8 thousand persons year-on-year.
The migrant workers hit 225.42 million persons at year-end, of the total, the number of migrant workers for work out side hometown totaled 140.41 million persons.
The new employment in urban areas was 11.13 million persons, 5 million laid-off and unemployed workers had found new jobs, of which, 1.43 million persons which have difficulties in employment are re-employed. The urban registered unemployed persons totaled 8.86 million, and registered urban unemployment rate was 4.2 percent. At the end of 2008, 996.5 thousand households so-called “Zero Employment Families” achieved at least one person per household employment, accounting for 99.9 percent of the total. Organized 34 thousand students engaged in “Educational, Agricultural, and Medical Support and Poverty Alleviation Project”.
At the end of 2008, a total of 217 thousand foreigners with working permits in China; for Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau employment working permits in the Mainland of China accounted for 89 thousand persons.
The supervision and management of human resources market has been strengthened, explored guidance and norms of network recruitment market, actively promote regional development and cooperation of human resources. The national total number of employment agencies at year-end reached 37,208 units, of the total, public employment agencies amounted to 24,410 units. The annual successful cases by public employment agencies hit 20.20 million persons, an increase of 2.0 percent year-on-year.
Social Insurance
Constantly improve on the social security system, social insurance coverage continues to expanding, the number of participants and fund scope continued to grow. The revenue and expanses of five social insurance funds stood at 1,369.6 and 992.5 billion yuan, an increase of 288.4 and 203.7 billion yuan year-on-year, and growth rate was 26.7and 25.8 percent respectively.
Pension Insurance
The number of persons participated in basic pension insurance in urban areas at year-end amounted to 218.91 million, a rise of 17.54 million persons year-on-year. Of the total, number of employees and retirees stood at 165.87 and 53.04 million, which rose 14.04 and 3.50 million persons respectively, year-on-year. The number of migrant workers participated in basic pension insurance hit 24.16 million, expanding 5.70 million persons year-on-year. The number of enterprises participated in basic pension insurance grew to 199.51 million persons, rose by 17.16 million persons year-on-year.
The treatment on basic pensions for enterprise retirees improved, and all in full payment on schedule. The number of retirees brought into the community management arrived at 34.61 million, account for 73.2 percent, a year-on-year rise of 2.0 percentage points, year-on-year.
The revenue of basic pension insurance fund topped 974.0 billion yuan, up by 24.3 percent. Of which, revenue collection totaled 801.6 billion yuan, grew 23.4 percent year-on-year. Financial subsidies at all levels of basic pension insurance fund stood at 143.7 billion yuan. The total expenses of fund topped 739.0 billion yuan, up by 23.9 percent year-on-year. The accumulated basic pension insurance fund at year-end accounted for 993.1 billion yuan.
There were 13 pilot provinces and municipalities such as Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Tianjin, Shanxi, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, and Xinjiang gained the accumulative basic pension insurance personal accounts fund amounted more than 110.0 billion yuan. There were 18 provinces, municipalities and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have been published provincial old-age insurance co-ordination system. In the following provinces and municipalities, such as: Shanxi, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Guangdong, and Chongqing carried out the preparations for old-age insurance system reform.
Totaled 33 thousand enterprises established enterprise annuities at the year-end, which covered 103.8 million employees. The accumulated balance of enterprises annuities at year-end stood at 191.1 billion yuan.
The number of persons participated in rural basic pension insurance at the year-end valued at 55.95 million, increased 4.24 million persons year-on-year. The number of peasants received the pensions topped 5.12 million, grew 1.20 million persons year-on-year. The pension insurance expenses amounted to 5,680 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 42 percent. The accumulated basic pension insurance fund balance in rural area totaled 49.9 billion yuan. There were 1201 counties and cities in 27 provinces and municipalities have been carried out the work on social security of farmers whose land has been expropriated, 13.24 million farmers involved in the basic livelihood or the old-age security system.
Medical Care Insurance
Population covered in basic medical care insurance in urban areas accounted for 318.22 million, expanded 95.11 million persons, year-on-year. Of which, employees in urban areas stood at 199.96 million, came up 19.76 million persons year-on-year; that of urban residents grew to 118.26 million, rose 75.35 million persons year-on-year. In the number of participants in basic medical care insurance, participated employees and retirees topped 149.88 and 50.08 million, went up 15.68 and 4.08 million persons respectively. The migrant workers participated in medical care insurance arrived at 42.66 million, a year-on-year increase of 11.35 million persons year-on-year.
The total revenue and expenses of urban basic medical care insurance fund stood at 304.0 and 208.4 billion yuan, climbed 34.7 and 33.4 percent respectively, year-on-year. The accumulative balance of urban basic medical care insurance fund stood at 343.2 billion yuan, of the total, co-ordination fund and personal accounts respectively arrived at 229.0 and 114.2 billion yuan.
Unemployment Insurance
Population covered in the unemployment insurance at the year-end hit 124.00 million, increased 7.55 million persons year-on-year. Of the total, the participated migrant workers grew to 15.49 million persons, a year-on-year increase of 3.99 million persons. The number of beneficiaries from unemployment insurance valued at 2.61 million persons, declined 250 thousand persons year-on-year. A total of 930 thousand contract migrant workers got one-off living allowance whose labor contract have not renewed or premature terminated the labor contracts.
The revenue and expenses of unemployment insurance fund reached 58.5 and 25.4 billion yuan, came up by 24.0 and 16.5 percent, year-on-year. The accumulated balance of unemployment insurance fund at the year-end valued at 131.0 billion yuan.
Work Injury Insurance
Total number of population participated in work injury insurance at year-end arrived at 137.87 million persons, grew by 16.14 million persons year-on-year. Of which, migrant workers covered in work injury insurance totaled 49.42 million persons, with an increase of 9.62 million persons year-on-year. A total of 950 thousand persons affirmed as work injury, a year-on-year increase of 190 thousand persons. Assessment of disability levels amounted to 380 thousand persons, came up 20 thousand persons. Totaled 1.18 million persons gained benefits from work injury insurance, topped 220 thousand persons year-on-year.
The accumulative income and expenses of work injury insurance fund accounted for 21.7 and 12.7 billion yuan, expanding by 30.9 and 44.4 percent respectively. At the end of 2008, the balance of work injury insurance fund stood at 33.5 billion yuan, and reserve fund topped 5.0 billion yuan.
Maternity Insurance
Total number of population participated in maternity insurance hit 92.54 million, a year-on-year expanding of 14.79 million persons. A total of 1.40 million persons gained benefits, with a year-on-year surging of 270 thousand persons.
The revenue and expenses of maternity insurance fund accounted for 11.4 and 7.1 billion yuan, rose 36.0 and 28.6 percent year-on-year, respectively. The accumulative balance of fund at year-end amounted to 16.8 billion yuan.
Social Insurance Fund Intendance
Fund surveillance works has gradually strengthened, and management of the fund gained further regulating. Promoted the pension fund marketization management of enterprises, identified annuity fund management qualification of 58 enterprises in 38 agencies at year-end. Enterprise annuity fund portfolio for organizational management operation hit 588, with funds stood at 97.5 billion yuan.
Labor Relations and Safeguard the Legitimate Rights and Interests of Laborers
The cities above county level have established tripartite coordination mechanism for labor relations. Continuing promote the three-year labor contract system to implemented plans to promote the employing units and workers in accordance with the law, and to fulfill the signing of labor contracts, the signed rate of labor contracts kept steadily increased.
76 central enterprises which implement the segmentation between major and minor businesses and restructuring of the minor businesses have been audited and approved, which involved 5,315 restructuring units, and diverted and settled 887 thousand persons.
The labor dispute arbitration committees at all levels dealed with 964 thousands labor dispute cases (including unclosed dispute cases in previous year). Of which, mediation before putting on record totaled 693 thousand cases; that of labor disputes by putting on record amounted to 237 thousand cases. In the labor disputes cases which have put on record increased 98.0 percent year-on-year, involved 1214 thousand laborers. Of the total, collective labor dispute cases topped 22 thousand, which involved 503 thousand employees. The claim settlement of labor disputes cases after put on record was 623 thousand, with 86 percent of claim settlement rate. The accumulative unclosed cases amounted for 104 thousand at year-end.
Labor and social security supervision organization totaled 3291 in national wide at the end of 2008, formation rate was 94.7 percent. Full-time inspectors of labor and social security for Department of Labor and Social Security at all levels reached 23 thousand persons.
Nationwide focused on the special inspections such as wages payment of migrant workers, cleaned up and rectified the labor market order, punished illegal employments, cracked down on crimes, and employers comply with the "Labor Contract Law", and other special inspection activities, initiatively checked 1808 thousand employers throughout the year, 1712 thousand employers carried though the written examination, investigated and settled reported cases of complaints and various labor and social security illegal cases accounted for 481 and 483 thousand cases. Through labor security supervision of law enforcement, ordered the employers resigned the labor contract with 15617 thousand laborers, charged the employers reissue the wages amounted to 8.33 billion yuan to 6.98 million laborers, urged the 164 thousand employers made a supplementary payment topped 4.9 billion yuan for social insurances, and 1260 thousand employers transacted the social insurance registration and declaration, banned 7192 illegal occupation agencies, and ordered the employers reimbursed risk mortgages payments valued at 89 million yuan to the laborers.
Wage Distribution
The annual average wages of on-duty staff and workers in urban units amounted to 29,229 yuan, a year-on-year jumping of 17.2 percent, after deducting the price factor, a real increasing of 11.0 percent. The annual average wage of on-duty staff and workers in state-owned units reached 31,005 yuan; that of in urban collective-owned units valued at 18,338 yuan; that of in other ownership units totaled 28,387 yuan. The daily average wages of on-duty staff and workers in urban units was 111.99 yuan, went up 12.68 yuan year-on-year.
General Office of State Council transmitted “Guidance on the Implementation of Merit Pay of Free Compulsory Education Schools”, further promoted the reform of wage system reform of institutions. Continued to regulating the allowances subsidies of civil servants. Through the adoption of various measures, settled historical wage arrears of state-owned enterprises totaled 34.9 billion yuan, which basically solved the problem of historical wage arrears. Over 28 provinces released the guideline of wages, and 20 provinces adjusted the minimum wage standard.
