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In 2004, under the wise leadership of CPC Central Committee and State Council, we push forward all the work of labor and social security in all-around way. We have made significant achievements in employment and re-employment, continued to consolidate the two guaranties, expanded the coverage of social security continuously, improved the establishment of social security system stably, protected the legitimate rights and interests of labors effectively, strengthened the establishment of labor security legislation and taken a new step in the labor security infrastructure.
1. Employment
By the end of 2004, there are 752 million people being employed in the towns and cities, rising by 7.68 million people more than the end of the preceding year. Among these people, the employees of primary industry amounted to 352.69 million, accounting for 46.9 percent of the employees in cities and towns; labors of secondary industry stood at 169.2 million, accounting for 22.5 percent; and the third industry has a staff of 230.11 million, accounting for 30.6 percent. The newly employed workers in urban reached 264.76 million including 110.99 labors working in enterprises, 55,150,000 persons are attracted by urban private enterprises and individual economic organizations, increased by 1.29 million and 5.93 million people more than 2003. Of the newly employees in urban enterprises, the labors who are in the payroll have arrived at 105.76 million, increased by 8.4 million compared with the same period of 2003.
The new employees in urban areas amounted to 9.8 million in 2004, 800,000 labors more than expected. 5.1 million unemployed have realized re-employment including 1.4 million re-employed persons of ¡°4050 person¡±. The unemployed who were registered in urban stood at 8.27 million in the end 2004, the rate for this is 4.2 percent, declined by 0.1 percent compare with the end of 2003. The unemployed in SOEs including stated owned pooling enterprises and state owned alone cooperation, reached 1.53 million in the end of 2003. Among those people, the unemployed who entered into the center of re-employment service center were 920,000 people. All of them got full cost for basic life on time and the center paid insurance fees on their behalf.
We have built the information network of labor market, 117 cities realized to release analysis report of job supply and demand according to quarters. By the end of 2004, various job introduction agencies throughout amounted to 33,890 including 23,437 public job introduction agencies. In 2004, the public job introduction agencies have introduced jobs for 13.36 million people successfully, rising by 15.6 percent compared with end of 2003. In 2004, the mechanic institute trained 2.65 million persons facing to society, rising by 17 percent compared with that of 2003. There are 3,323 training centers for employment including 21,425 social training institutes in China by the end of 2004, and 14.88 million persons are trained in 2004, rising by 27.6 percent compared to that of 2003. 5.3 million unemployed participated in the employment training in 2004 including 310,000 people have taken the carving out training. During 2004, the Junior and Senior Middle School students who are not able to continue their school have also participated in the labor preliminary training.
In China, we have 9,458 occupation skill identification institutions, rising by 30.4 percent compared to that of 2003, and also have 200,000 inspectors for the identification by the end of 2004; 8.8 million people have taken the test in 2004, rising by 28 percent compared to that of 2003. 7.36 million persons have got the certification of different levels, rising by 26 percent compared to that of 2003. The average passing rate of the identification in 2004 is 83.7 percent. 120,000 new mechanics have been trained in 2004, 20,000 more than expected.
2. Social Insurance
(1) Retirement Insurance
There are 46.75 million people of the retired and dismissed in the end of 2004 in China, rising by 1.52 million people compared with that of 2003 including 1.32 million dismissed, declined by 90000 persons compared with that of 2003; 45.43 million retirees, inclined by 1.61 million persons compared with that of 2003.
There are 163.53 million people participate in the basic retirement insurance in the end of 2004 in China, rising by 8.47 million people compared with that of 2003 including 122.5 million workers and 41.03 million retirees, rising by 6.04 and 2.43 million people compared to that of 2003. In the end of 2004, 146.79 million workers in enterprises participated in retirement insurance, inclined by 7.97 million compared to that of 2003. In 2004, the basic retirement insurance has been distributed fully to the dismissed and retirees in enterprises on time. In the end of 2004, 34.3 million retirees in enterprises were socially managed, rising by 4.97 million people, compared with that of 2003. The social management for retirees of enterprises reached 93.2 percent in the end of 2004, rising by 8.7 compared with that of 2003. 21.66 million retirees of enterprises have been involved in community management, taking 58.9 percent of all the retirees of enterprises.
The revenue of basic retirement insurance fund in 2004 stood at 425.8 billion RMB, rising by 15.7 percent compared to that of 2003 including 358.5 billion RMB, which are collected, rising by 17.8 percent. 61.4 million RMB for retirement insurance fund distributed by finance department at all levels including 52.2 billion RMB from the central financial ministry, and 9.2 billion RMB from local finance department. The whole expenditure of fund reached 350.2 billion RMB in 2004, rising by 12.2% compared with that of 2003. In the end of 2004, the basic retirement pension deposit was 2,197.5 billion RMB.
53.78 million people participated in the rural retirement insurance in China by the end of 2004, 2.05 farmers got their retirement pensions. In the end of 2004, 28.5 billion RMB was deposited by rural retirement insurance fund.
(2) Unemployment Insurance
105.84 million people participated in the unemployment insurance in the end of 2004. 4.19 million people got their unemployment insurance, rising by 40,000 compared to that of 2003. In 2004, the unemployment insurance revenue has amounted to 29.1 billion RMB and had an expenditure of 21.1 billion RMB, rising by 15.8 and 4.1 percent compared with that of 2003. 38.6 billion RMB of unemployment has been deposited in the end of 2004.
(3) Medical Insurance
In the end of 2004, 124.04 million people participated in basic medical insurance in China, rising by 15.02 million compared to that of 2003 including 90.45 million employees, 33.59 million retirees, rising by 10.7 and 4.32 million persons compared to that of 2003. The basic medical insurance fund has amounted to 114.1 billion RMB, the expenditure was 26.2 billion RMB, rising by 28.1 and 38.6 percent, compared with that of 2003 including 62.3 billion revenue of fund plan as a whole and 46.4 billion expenditure rising by 20.5 and 22.4 percent compared with that of 2003. By the end of 2004, the basic insurance fund has reached 95.8 billion RMB including 55.3 billion RMB for deposit of fund plan as a whole and 40.45 billion RMB from individual accounts deposit.
(4) Work related Injury Insurance
The majority of regions in China have begun to carry out the work related injury insurance. In the end of 2004, 68.45 million people participated in the work related injury insurance, rising by 22.7 million compared to that of 2003. 520,000 people have enjoyed the work related injury insurance the whole year, rising by 190,000 persons compared with that of 2003. In 2004, the revenue of work related injury insurance fund was 580,000 RMB, the expenditure was 330,000 RMB, rising by 55.1 and 22.9 percent compared to that of 2003. The deposit of it amounted to 11.9 billion RMB.
(5) Birth Insurance
In the end of 2004, 43.84 million people took part in the birth insurance in China, rising by 7.29 million people compared to that of 2003. In 2004,460,000 people enjoyed the birth insurance, rising by 100,000 people compared with that of 2003. The revenue for birth insurance fund amounted to 3.2 billion RMB in 2004, the expenditure was 1.9 million RMB, rising by 24 and 39.3 percent compared to that of 2003. The deposit for it was 5.6 billion RMB in the end of 2004.
(5) Supervision For Social Insurance Fund
In the end of 2004, 26 provinces in China established social security supervision committees at province level, decided plans for fund supervision and management, the majority of the provinces carried out actions to fight against fraud of social security work, dealt with the issue embezzlement fund against regulation in individual region, further to push forward the establishment of enterprises annuity system, decided and released the temporary method of enterprises annuity and fund employment.
(6) Perfect the Pilot of Urban Social Security System
On the basis of the pilot of Liaoning Province, we carried out the pilot work of perfecting urban social security system in Jilin and Heilongjiang. By the end of 2004,990,000 people in Jilin and Heilongjiang have realized the integration of basic life security for the unemployed in SOEs and the unemployed insurance.
3. Distribution of Salary
The average salary of employees in urban enterprises was 16,024 RMB in 2004, rising by 14.1 percent, compared with that of 2003 to, rising by 10.5% in real term, price factors excluded. The average salary of employees in SOEs amounted to 16,729 RMB, 9,814 RMB in urban collectivity enterprises and 16,259 RMB in other enterprises. In China, 30 provinces, municipality, cities have established the salary guideline, 140 medium and big sized cities released salary guiding price in labor market, 13 medium and big sized cities released the human cost information of industry, the salary negotiation collective system of 290,000 enterprises.
4. Labor Relationship
In 2004, we have reviewed settlement plan for workers of 47 central enterprises or those relegated the Central which were closed or bankrupted, involved 320,000 workers. The review approved the restructuring plans which will separate the main business and subsidiary business, mentioned by 58 central enterprises, involved 3,047 subsidiary enterprises and 440,000 workers.
In 2004, labor dispute arbitral committee at all levels accept 260,000 cases, rising by 15.2 percent compared to that of 2003, including 760,000 workers including 190,000 collective labor dispute cases, rising by 72.7 percent compared to that of 2003. In 2004, national labor dispute arbitral committee heard and closed 2590,000 cases, the rate for this was 93.2 percent
5. Labor Security Legislation and Supervision
In November 2004, the Practice of Labor Security Supervision has been released by State Council. The Labor Security Ministry has made amendment to The Regulation For Collective Contract , The Regulation for the Lowest Salary, and released Some Regulations About Carrying out Labor Security Supervision Practices .
In the end of 2004, the number of labor security supervision institutions was 3,277 in China. The establishment rate for it was 96.5 percent. The professional supervisor of labor security in labor security departments at all levels was 190,000. We pay attention to carrying out special inspection actions of protection for the legitimate rights and interests of farmer workers, forbidding to employ Junior child in China, we inspected 1.15 million employ persons units actively, annual inspection employ person units were 1 million, checked and dealt with 250000 cases which were prosecuted by citizens; made employ person units re labor contract for 11.03 million labors, paid defaulted salary for 8.71 million labors, urgent employ person units paid 4.1 billion social insurance fees, put down 7470 illegal introduction agencies.
6. The establishment of Jinbao project and community platform
The 1st construction of Jinbao project, has been initiated in all-around way, completed the work of making up the project initiation at the central level and local feasibility report, we have realized the net connection between department and 32 provinces including Xinjiang Production and Construction Division and began to upload related statistics, opened formally the visual meeting system between the department and provinces, pushed forward the establishment of statistics center, unified software development and application and other information work stably.
In the end of 2004, 6,037 streets have established labor security work institutions in China, accounting for 98 percent of all streets, 26,663 villages and towns established institution, taking up 73 percent of all villages and towns, 55,336 communities carry out labor security service with employing staff, accounting to 89 percent of all communities.
7. International Exchanges and Corporation
We have hold China employment forum with international organizations in Beijing, this is the 1st time for the international labor organizations to hold employment forum in the member state about 500 deputies took part in the meeting. We also hosted successfully the high level seminar of labor security of APEC, the high level officials and experts from 15 member states, participates in the meeting. We have successfully undertake 28 global meetings of international social security societies, more than 1,500 deputies at home and abroad took part in the meeting, and held the special plenary meeting of China Social Security during the meeting, and introduced Chinese experience especially.
Note:
1. All the statistics in this gazette do not include HKSAR, MCSAR and TW.
2. The relative statistics in this gazette is on The Last Yearly, and is different from part of statistics in the National Economy and Social Development Statistics Gazette in PRC of 2004.
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