White Paper: China to Further Promote Labor, Social Security

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White Paper: China to Further Promote Labor, Social Security

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With China starting the implementation of the Tenth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development (2001-2005) in 2001, its labor and social security buildup has entered a new phase of development, says a white paper on labor and social security in China issued by China' s Information Office of the State Council Monday.

During the early stage of the new century, these efforts face both problems to be solved and new opportunities for the development, according to the white paper.

The white paper lists the targets for labor and social security development in the early part of this century as follows: initially forming a comparatively complete labor and social security system corresponding to the development level of China's productive forces and meeting the requirements of the socialist market economy; ensuring well-nigh full employment and basic social security for the majority of workers; safeguarding the legal rights and interests of both employees and employers; enhancing the material and cultural well-being of rural and urban residents; and promoting economic development and social stability.

The white paper says the main tasks for labor and social security development in China in the early part of this century are to gradually improve the quality of workers and the employment structure, initially form a market-oriented employment mechanism, strive to promote employment, standardize and improve the statistics on unemployment rate, and control the registered rural and urban unemployment rate to within 5 percent; actively adjust labor relations and keep them harmonious and stable; improve the macro regulation and control system of income distribution, work out a rational income distribution relationship, and achieve an approximately 5 percent annual increase in both the per capita disposable income of urban residents and the net per capita income of rural residents; speed up the development of the urban social security system, improve the methods and operating mechanism of fund raising, and promote the socialization of social security management and services; with farmers' old-age security and health security of multiple forms as the guide, actively explore in rural areas a basic security system suited to the socialist market economy system and the country's economic development level and set up a system to help the weak group in society take care of their own life and work.

The white paper says that China will carry out a series of policies and measures to promote further development of labor and social securities:

-- Carry out an active policy for promoting employment and do everything possible to enlarge the scale of employment.

-- Establish a unified and standardized labor market, make a unified plan for rural and urban employment, and ameliorate the employment service system.

-- Improve the quality of workers in an all-round way and adopt flexible forms of employment.

-- Consolidate and improve the labor contract system, make great efforts to carry forward the group contract system and promote the establishment of a tripartite coordination mechanism for labor relations. Active efforts shall be made to perfect a labor standard system suited to China's actual conditions. The system of handling labor disputes shall be further improved.

-- Promote the reform of the wage and income distribution system and establish an incentive and restraining mechanism for income distribution.

-- Deepen the reform of the social security system, speed up the building of the social security system and actively implement the pilot program for its improvement.

-- Improve the basic old-age insurance and basic medical insurance systems. Further steps shall be taken to improve the unemployment insurance system. Development of the industrial injury and childbirth insurance systems shall be accelerated. The basic old-age pension insurance system for employees of state organs and institutions shall be improved. The system for ensuring a minimum standard of living for urban residents shall be standardized. Efforts should be taken to improve policies concerning social relief, social mutual aid, the special care and placement system and social welfare, and safeguard the legal rights and interests of women, minors, the elderly and the handicapped.

-- Establish a supervision and management system concerning social security funds through a combination of administrative supervision, social supervision and internal institutional control.

-- Press ahead with the legal system building in the labor and social security fields, improve the labor and social security supervision system, steadily enhance the overall quality of supervision and law-enforcement personnel, carry out supervision activities of diverse forms, and push forward the organic integration of labor security supervision and law-enforcement departments with all social sectors in implementing legal supervision.

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