One, Development goal

In "11th Five-Year Plan" period, the main goal of labor and social security development are: establish and improve better labor protection system and operational mechanism which in line with the national economic and social development, and gradually realize relatively full employment, income distribution more reasonable, labor relations basically harmonious and stable, social security system relatively perfect, and management services specification and efficient development goals.

1. Employment continues to grow. Put the expansion of employment in more prominent position in economic and social development, and continue to implement a proactive employment policy, take emphasis on the solution of the laid-off workers re-employment issue which come from system transition, at the same time, make efforts to improve urban new added employment and rural surplus labor employment, and explore the establishment of a long-term mechanism which promote employment under the conditions of the socialist market economy, actively promote the coordination of urban and rural employment, and gradually establish the employment system with unified urban and rural labor market and fair competition. Expand job opportunities, increase employment opportunities, improve the employment structure, improve the quality of employment. Strengthen unemployment regulation, and maintain stable employment situation. In the "11th Five-Year Plan" period, China's Urban and town achieved new added employment 45 million, the registered urban unemployment rate control within 5%, transfer of agricultural labor 45 million people.

2. The quality of laborers continuously improve. Formed vocational training and skills personnel evaluation system and policy system with market-oriented, orderly operation, efficient management and covering urban and rural areas, and further increase the intensity of workers training, basically establish skill worker troop with large-scale, professional complete and echelon reasonable. By the end of "11th Five-Year Plan" period, the total national skill workers will reach 110 million, of which, technician and senior technician skilled workers accounted for 5% of the total, senior workers accounted for 20%.

3. The social security system more complete. Establish and improve social security system and management service system, achieve the source of funds through various channels, security approach multi-layered, manage services socialization. Further expand the coverage of social security, basically achieve all types of urban employment equal enjoy social security. Improve rural areas social security system. By the end of "11th Five-Year Plan" period, the number of urban basic provide for the aged, basic medical care, unemployment, work-related injury insurance and maternity insurance reached 223 million, 300 million, 120 million, 140 million and over 80 million people respectively, the number of people who participate in the rural social provide for the aged insurance and enterprises annuity gradual increase.

4. Labor relations basically maintain harmony and stability. Labor relation adjustment mechanism further improve, gradually achieved the legal system of the adjustment of labor relations. Universal implement the labor contract system, the collective contract system continue to promote, the tripartite mechanism which coordinate labor relations has been gradually improved, the system reform of handling labor dispute has made remarkable progress. Income distribution system of enterprise wage fair standard, the wage level of workers steadily increase.

5. Labor and Social Security legal system more sound. Accelerate the establishment of a sound labor and social security laws and regulations system, and further improve the labor and social security administrative law system, basically form labor protection law enforcement network with covering urban and rural; Through strengthening the work of law Popularity, so that the safeguarding rights and law-abiding awareness of broad masses of workers and employers obviously increase.

Two, Major tasks

1. Implement a long-term strategy and policy to promote employment, do everything possible to expand employment.

 (1) Implement the strategies that simultaneously emphasize economic development and promote employment, establish economic growth mode which conducive to the expansion of employment. Promote economic restructure, encourage, support and guide the development of individual, private and other non-public economic, actively develop labor-intensive industries with high employment capacity, services and all kinds of ownership small and middle enterprises, improve the employment structure, expand employment capacity.Strengthen regional collaboration, push the work mode of training, employment, safeguarding rights trinity, do well the export of labor services, guide and organize the agricultural labor orderly transfer to non-agricultural industries and towns.

 (2) Continue to implement active employment policy, promote re-employment of laid-off unemployed. Create a good employment and entrepreneurial environment, and properly resolve the laid-off workers re-employment issues which caused by legacy system transformation, focus on the reemployment of state owned and collective enterprises laid-off workers, the people need to rehouse of shutdown and bankruptcy state-owned enterprises. Guide workers change their concept on employment, promote various forms of employment and encourage self-employed workers and independent entrepreneurs. Through the guidance of support policy, encourage enterprises to absorb laid-off workers reemployment. Intensify efforts to develop public service jobs, full implement all kinds of affirmative policy, and enhance the stability of employment. Establish the work linkage mechanism of employment and unemployment insurance, minimum living guarantee for urban residents, promote and help laid-off workers get re-employed as soon as possible.

 (3) Continuously improve the market employment mechanism, promote the coordination of urban and rural employment. Establish unified urban and rural areas, equal competition labor market, gradual eliminate discrimination in employment. Cancel the restrictions of rural laborers enter cities and trans-regional employment, improve the employment environment of migrant workers in cities. Actively promote the growth of new labor especially college graduates employment. Strengthen the construction of labor market, standardize workers seeking jobs, employing units recruitment and professional intermediation activities. Establish unemployment registration system which covered all kinds of unemployment, strengthen the management and services of registered unemployed college graduates, improve the employers hiring records system and the employment registration system of recruitment. Strengthen the supervision of all kinds of professional intermediaries, maintain the order of labor market.

 (4) Establish public employment service system with institutionalized, professional and socialization. Perfect the employment management services organization system which cover urban and rural laborers, establish and perfect the public employment service network in county and countryside, strengthen public service functions that promote employment, improve the public employment service system. Use city as center gradually implement the public employment service overall planning  management, improve service means, develop services items, expand services function, provide effective services for all types of urban and rural workers. Perfect the employment assistance system for areas in difficulties, difficulties industry and difficulties groups. Support and standardize the development of social service organizations such as all types of professional job intermediary agencies and sending labor, vocational counseling, employment information services. Gradually establish the mechanism that government purchase employment service outcome, give full play to various social services employment agencies.

 (5) Strengthen the regulation and control of unemployment. Proper arrange the streaming workers of the shutdown, bankruptcy, reorganization and restructure state-owned enterprises; Encourage large and medium state-owned enterprises through the Separation of the Primary Business and Secondary Business and the Structural Reform of the Secondary Business to placement the surplus staff; standardize enterprise Layoffs behavior, improve the guidance on layoffs of normal production and operation enterprises; Establish early warning mechanism for unemployment, formulate plans and corresponding measures, effectively control unemployment, reduce the number of long-term unemployed, and maintain stable employment situation.

 (6) Improve overseas employment management system, and improve the employment management system for foreigner. Establish the coordinated and handling mechanism of the emergency overseas employment, protect the legitimate rights and interests of overseas employment. Strengthen the monitoring of foreign employment agencies, regulate the services on foreign personnel employment. Intensify efforts to open up foreign employment market and expand the scale of overseas employment. Strengthen the management of foreigner employment in China.

2. Vigorously develop vocational education and training, accelerate improve the quality of workers’ skills

 (1) Accelerate the skilled workers that economic and social development needs. Give full play to the existing education and training resources, relying on large enterprise and vocational institutions, advanced mechanics schools, colleges, and other key technical vocational education and training institutions, establish a set of demonstration, state-level high-skills training bases and regional public training base, accelerate highly skilled personnel training, promote the building of vocational training system model. Strengthen the training of practical skills, improve re-employment capacity of laid-off unemployed person. Develop entrepreneurship training, promote the multiplier effect that entrepreneurship drive employment. Vigorously develop farmers’ vocational skills training and guidance training, improve their vocational skills, transfer employment ability and adaptability. Improve the work preparation system, so that before employment more than 90% of the new added urban and rural labor force had received the necessary vocational skills training. Accelerate form the new work pattern of skilled workers training that promote by government, led by enterprise, cooperate by industry, participate by schools, support by society and personal efforts. Strengthen the capacity building of mechanics schools and vocational training institutions, establish the skilled workers training system that school cooperate with enterprise. Gradually develop the skilled work force with reasonable structure.

 (2) Further improve the vocational qualification certificate system, form the mechanism of skilled workers evaluation, selection, use and incentive. Improve work system of the socialization vocational skills certification, enterprise skilled workers evaluation, vocational school qualification and certification, and specialized vocational skills assessment, play the guiding role of professional qualification certificates in employment and the process of skilled workers. Encourage industries, enterprises and the whole society to carry out various types of vocational skills competitions and job training activities. Guide enterprises to establish the incentive mechanism that combine the use of skilled workers to training and evaluation, and link the treatment with performance contributions

 (3) Strengthen the building of technical support and service system of vocational education and training. Improve the building of national occupation classification and professional standards system, and establish regular release system of new career. Accelerate the construction of national test bank and the development of vocational training materials, extensive use modern training techniques and distance training tools to accelerate training methods, training mode and manner of training institutions reform, strengthen the building of vocational training teacher ranks. Gradually improve the development and exchange mechanism of highly skilled talent, establish skilled personnel and skills outcome information base. Build 50 society-oriental public service training base which provide practical training and skill identification services in the region had conditions, initially form the public training services network with rational layout.

3. Accelerate the improvement of the social security system, strengthen social security capacity.

 (1) Improve the social insurance system. According to China's current stage of economic and social development level, considered different areas, different groups of people and the difference income levels and the actual affordability of the individual and employing units, emphasis on protecting the people basic livelihood and basic medical needs, further improve the basic old-age and urban basic medical, unemployment , injury, maternity insurance system, seriously solve the social security issue of farmers and landless farmers, explore and actively and steadily push forward the rural social endowment insurance.

Pension insurance. Ensure the basic pensions provide on time and in full. Actively promote the pilot experience of three northeastern provinces improve the urban social security system, unify insurance payment policies of urban Individual Economy and flexible employment, put non-public enterprises, urban Individual Economy and flexible employment people into the basic old-age insurance coverage; Gradually make the basic old-age insurance personal accounts well, reform the Computing and Distributing Methods of basic pension, and establish the normal adjustment mechanism for basic old-age pensions, reduce the gap between the enterprises retirement pensions level and the institutions retirement pensions level. Encourage qualified enterprises to set up an enterprise annuity, initial form multi-level old-age insurance system which combines the basic old-age insurance, enterprises annuity and individual savings pension. Push the pension insurance system reform organs, institutions, achieve reasonable engagement of organs, institutions and enterprises pension insurance system.　

Medical insurance. Constantly improve the urban basic medical security policy and management, establish a sound mechanism for guaranteeing the operation, accelerate the building of the urban medical assistance system, further regulate the supplementary medical insurance, building the basic medical insurance as the main body to protect the risk of serious diseases, and put emphasis on balanced multi-level medical security system demand, gradually expand the coverage of basic medical insurance.

Unemployment insurance. Further improve the unemployment insurance claims approach, perfect the claims situation combine with unemployment people’s job search and vocational training, establish the linkage mechanism for unemployment insurance and employment promotion. Actively promote the pilot of expanding the scope of the unemployment insurance fund in the eastern region, and further play the functions of unemployment insurance system to promote re-employment. Research unemployment insurance issue of flexible employment, and make corresponding arrangement.

Industrial injury insurance. Further improve the work injury insurance policies and standards system, continue to promote all kinds of enterprises, workers and individual business households participate in work-related injury insurance, organize and implement institutions, social organizations and private non-enterprise units join industrial injury insurance, improve the Work-related injury certification system and labor capacity identification system, and actively explore effective ways that combine injury Compensation and injury prevention with injury rehabilitation, build an effective mechanism for preventing accidents, and gradually establish injury rehabilitation system which suitable for China's national conditions.

Maternity insurance. Further expand the coverage of maternity insurance, establish a sound reproductive health care insurance and settlement management system approach.

The rural social insurance. In accordance with the requirements of urban and rural development, explore the establishment of rural social pension insurance system which in line with the rural economy development level and other security measures supporting. Take the way that suit different groups’ characteristics and needs, focus on promoting the social security of landless farmers, priority solve migrant workers Work-Related Injury Insurances and medical insurance, work at the migrant workers pension insurance with low rates, wide coverage, transferable, and link up the existing pension system. Basically establish a new type of rural cooperative medical system.

Improve the levels of social insurance, and continually enhance the capacity of co-ordination regulation. Actively create conditions to achieve plan as a whole of basic pension insurance in province; Gradually promote unemployment insurance plan as a whole in city (Prefecture) levels; Establish and perfect the system of industrial injury insurance reserves.

 (2) Multi-channel finance social insurance funds. Standardize the collection process, strengthen the collection management, achieve unified collection of all items social insurance according to law, establish collection incentive mechanism, achieve collected all receivables social insurance. Establish a sound social insurance fund accounting system, and actively explore new avenues to finance the social security fund, establish a standardized social security fund raising and expenditure system, form a stable source of fund, ensure the payment of social insurance benefits. Proper solve the problem of difficulties groups’ medical protection cost source, put workers in difficult enterprises, retirees of close or bankrupt enterprises, the difficulties urban residents into the family medical security system.  

(3) Actively and properly explore the social security fund operation and supervision management mechanisms. Improve the social security fund supervision and early warning system monitoring mechanism, gradually improve the supervision mechanism that combine administrative supervision, specialized supervision, social supervision and internal control. Further improve revenue and expenditure two line approach, constitute investment policy by the classification of funds; Under the premise of ensuring the safety of fund, develop investment management method of pension insurance funds in individual accounts and rural social pension insurance fund; Strengthen the supervision of National Social Security Fund and the operation of enterprise annuity market investment, achieve standardize operation and fund’s Value-Maintained and Value-Added. Normalize the paid of social insurance benefits, prevent the wastage of funds, increase the investigation efforts of cheating social security benefits, plug the loopholes of fund payment.

 (4) Improve the policies and measures of the transfer and link of the people with social insurance. Research and solve the existing problems in social insurance system design of all groups in towns and policy link, achieve the effective link in different groups’ social security system policy, explore effective way to solute the social insurance transferring problem which caused by people mobility.

 (5) Establish a sound social service management system. From the formulation of social insurance agencies service standards and norms service facilities as start, strengthen basic management, integrate services resources, standardize the process of service, promote social insurance agency services standardization, information, and professional development. Establish incentive and restraint mechanisms, comprehensively improve the social management services level, include enterprise retirees into social management. Accelerate public service facilities and service network building, encourage building retirement apartments in qualified region, and continuously improve the quality of life of retirement.

4. Improve the adjustment mechanism of labor relations, create a harmonious labor relations.

 (1) Accelerate the building of labor relations coordination mechanisms. Full implement the labor contract system, and generally promote all types of enterprises and trade unions signed and strictly implement labor contract. Promote collective contract system, vigorously promote regional and industrial collective consultation. Enhance the organization and system construction of tripartite mechanism to coordinate labor relations, and give full play to the role of the tripartite mechanism. Continue to regulate the labor relations in the reform of state-owned enterprises and institution.

 (2) Regulate income distribution of enterprise wage, standardize the order of wage distribution. Continue to promote the changes of enterprise wages decision mechanism, focus on the establishment of wage collective consultation system. Sound minimum wage system, according to the level of economic development and gradually raising the minimum wage. Further improve the macro guidance system of wage guidance line, labor market wage guidance price and labor costs information guidance. Improve state-owned enterprise income distribution rules and regulatory mechanisms, strengthen the control of wages distribution of high-income state-owned and state-holding enterprises. Improve enterprise wage payment system, establish a sound monitoring system and the wages payment protection system.

(3) Promote the reform of labor dispute handling system, comprehensive strengthen the work of labor dispute handling. Reform the current "one intercede, one arbitrage, two trial" labor dispute handling system, explore to establish the labor dispute settlement mechanisms which focus on prevention and mediation, stand out the advantage and role of arbitrage. Comprehensive promote the entity construction of labor dispute arbitration, gradually build the entity labor dispute handling agencies in the city (prefecture) levels and counties (cities, districts) which had conditions. Actively promote the professional and specialization construction of labor disputes arbitration people. Strengthen labor dispute mediation work, while improve labor dispute mediation committee, at the same time, actively promote the construction of regional and industry labor dispute mediation organizations.

5. Strengthen the construction of labor supporting legal, uphold administration according to the law.

 (1) Establish and improve China's labor and social security legal system. Modify and improve labor law, institute labor contract law, promote employment law, social insurance law, labor dispute handling law and other law. Research and institute administrative regulations of disabilities employment, vocational skills training and identification, labor market, enterprises wages, the basic pension insurance, medical insurance and social insurance fund management and supervision; Revise and perfect "Unemployment Insurance Regulations", and strengthen the local labor and social security legislation guidance.

 (2) Strengthen the stipulation and revision work of labor standards. Perfect special working hours rest approval system and the workers leave system, strengthen special labor protection of women workers and young workers. Research and improve the allowance system of hard position, develop the stipulation and revision of national standards of labor quota, guide industry and enterprise groups process the stipulation and revision of industrial standards of labor quota.

 (3) Strengthen the labor security monitoring system and institution building. Continue to promote labor protection monitoring system and working mechanism innovation, and further increase the intensity of law enforcement, comprehensively establish integrity and abiding law system of employment unit labor protection. Further standardize the monitoring procedures, improve the monitoring system, achieve the unification of labor security supervision functions, institutions, signs and enforcement amanuensis, solid the personnel of labor support law enforcement and supervisory. Perfect the integrated management system that with any violations of labor and social security laws and regulations with the relevant departments jointly deal. Increased the investigation and handling strength of owed farmers and workers’ wages and other against the legitimate rights and interests behaviors.

 (4) Establish a comprehensive administrative and law enforcement supervision system. Establish and improve the labor security administration public system, and promote labor and social security administrative departments at all levels and standardized service agencies by law, deal with labor security matters according to law. Regulate the licensing and administrative approval behavior, establish the licensee's supervision and inspection system. Improve the administrative review system and establish the administrative fault accountability system.

 (5) Establish and improve the work system of Law Popularity education. Effective actively explore new ways of labor protection law, enhance the targeted and effective of Law Popularity work. Establish the Law Popularity rotational training system of staff in labor security system, strengthen the Law Popularity education of employing units and worker, implement labor security law and regulations training before the migrant workers to work, effectively enhance awareness and capacity of workers to safeguard their own labor security rights and interests, promote the labor security law popularity work institutionalized.