Livelihood (民生)

“working hard to solve the problems of the people’s lives, to let them enjoy the fruits of the reform and development. We will pay more attention to stimulating employment and reemployment, improving the social security system, solving the problems that the people are most concerned about and that affect them most directly, in particular, the problems of medical care, education and water purified.”

——from Report on the Work of Jilin Province Government in 2007

Putting people first, paying close attention to the well-being of the people to solve prominent problems relating to there vital interests, which are the necessary requirements of the scientific and harmonious development. Since the policy of rejuvenating the old industrial bases in northeast China has been implemented, in Jilin province the economy develops rapidly, the society is harmonious, the people’s lives improves continually.

■Employment

Jilin province made some achievements in the job creation and employment reform.

Since 2004, Jilin province held a series of activities to promote employment by creating jobs. Accumulative total of 540，000 labor forces employed or reemployed. From 2005 to 2006, the government invested to create 71,100 jobs. Till to the end of 2006, the employees in the province has increased to 181,000, there was 450,000 new urban employees. 31，000 zero employee family achieved that one at least has been employed.

In 2007, Jilin province planned to create 35,000 commonweal jobs, to totaled 100,000. at the same time, Jilin province will implement the training plan for young members of the right age from subsistence allowance needed family policy. At the appointed time, in Jilin province there will be no family that none of the members has his work more than three months. At the end of the year, zero employee family will be zero.

■Medical Insurance

The coverage of urban medical care and health service is extensive in Jilin province, including urban residents who didn’t enjoy the basic urban employee medical insurance, the people who have no job, and flexible employees. If the certificated handicappeds or the members from subsistence allowance family that didn’t enjoy the basic urban employee medical insurance, want to participate, the local finance plan as a whole will offer more than 80% of charges. In 2007, Jilin province will set up three guarantee lines of urban medical insurance: the first is basic medical insurance system for urban employees, the second is medical insurance system for urban residents, the third is medical aid system for urban poverty family. We will establish the multiple medical insurance system covered all the people to let every one enjoy the medical guarantee aims. Till to the end of 2007, 7,000,000 persons will participate in the urban medical insurance, in 2008, the medical insurance will cover all the urban residents.

Since 2004, Jilin province has established serious disease aid system for poverty family, and has paid 64 million Yuan to help 183000 persons. In 2005, the urban medical aid system started, and has paid more than 40,000,000 Yuan to help 39000 persons. In 2006, the pilot projects on a new type of rural cooperative medical care system have spread to 24 counties in Jilin province. In 2007, the system will cover the whole province. According to the principle that the government pays more and farms pay a little, the cooperative medical system will benefit more than 14,000,000 farmers in Jilin province. This will help to solve the problem of poverty for disease, difficulty to see a doctor.

■Social Insurance

In 2004, PRC decided to carry out the pilot projects to perfect urban social security system in Jilin province. Since 2006, the system has expanded to the whole country. In 2004, China determined to carry on urban social security system improvement pilot work in Jilin Province, and from 2006, the system has already been generalized in the whole country. In addition, Jilin is one of the provinces in the country to implement the policy of old-age insurance with social pooling. Till to the end of November 2006, Jilin province has paid pensions of 10,302,000,000 Yuan fully and timely for five years in succession, to 1,376,400 enterprises retirees. Now 1267000 retirees receive pensions fully and timely from bank, post office or community each month. The social provision rate of the pension reached 93%, and the other part was delivered by social security agency.

Doing a good job on rural social security system is another Jilin’s act to concentrate on people’s lives. In 2006, the rural residents who enjoy subsistence allowance reached 800,000. In October 2006, provincial government enhanced the standard of the subsistence allowance, and enlarged the delivered extension. The rural residents whose average income is lower 683 Yuan will receive subsistence allowance.

■Housing Improvement

The shantytown refers to the dirty and noisy urban area where the one-story houses are more, with the long time construction service life, the average per person area is small, the necessary infrastructure is incomplete, the public security and the hidden fire danger is big. The shantytown is the historical pain of Jilin Province. Implementing the shantytown rebuilding is the problem concerned with the general populations directly and mostly. That also is the objective request to implement the scientific development view, and to construct the harmonious society, and the obligatory responsibility of the party committees and government all levels.

At the end of 2005, Jilin Province has planned to complete rebuilding work of 15,000,000 square meters shantytown within 3 years, to improve the housing conditions of 1,000,000 low income crowds. So far, 153,000 households had to obtain the allocation in Jilin Province, 402,000 inhabitants moved into the new home happily.

In 2007, the shantytown rebuilding project will be carry out in 40 counties (cities). Each county will have to complete about 100,000 square meters rebuilding, in addition planned this year in cities, the complete reconstruction areas will probably be 9,500,000 square meters. Jilin province will spend 350,000,000 Yuan subsidy to complete the shantytown rebuilding project specially.

Health and Medical Care

Jilin Province urban medical insurance system covered a broad scope, including urban residents, unemployed persons, employees in flexible and varied forms, the treatment standard was divided into three scales, each human can hand in 200 Yuan, 150 Yuan, 120 Yuan every year, then can enjoy the highest payment quotas of 45,000 Yuan, 40,000 Yuan, 35,000 Yuan separately.

At the end of 2006, there were 564 community health care institutions in Jilin province, including 70 community health service centers, 494 community health-care stations, covered a total of 9.142 million people. Through implementing mass drug purchasing by public bidding, benefit the patients to spare 250,000,000 Yuan. In 2006, 6,244,000 farmers participated new rural cooperatives medical service, occupied 74.3% of 8,402,000 agricultural populations in 24 experiment counties (city), and altogether gathered the fund of 281,308,000 Yuan, 2,442,000 farmers had enjoyed the profit, have paid compensation fund 201,486,000 Yuan, accounted for 71.6% of the total raising fund amount. The popular rate of health restroom achieved 61.6% in the countryside of Jilin province, and the popular rate of purified water reached 48.8%. The mortality rate of pregnant woman was 30.64/100,000, dropped 3.97 /100,000 compared to the last year. The infant mortality was 7.86 ‰. The natural population growth of Jilin Province was lower than the domestic average level in a few year, entered the low birth horizontal province ranks in lead. The education level of women and children remarkablly enhanced, the basic rights and interests were well protected, played more and more vital role in political, economical, social and cultural life.

■Social Aid System

The main principle of Jilin Province to advance the social aid system construction is to persist general plan and coordinated development between the city and countryside. On the determination of the aid objects, Jilin Province care about not noly the hardship of the family with the fixed dwelling in city and countryside, but also practically pay attention to the people those roams about to beg in city. After the implementation of the new rescue administer measure, Jilin Province spent more than 31,000,000 Yuan to enhance the infrastructure construction, and consummate the rescue service function, realized the work goal that all county at or above cities level have rescues administer station, the accumulation population who received the aid reached 61,000.

Jilin Province advanced the social aid system construction actively. While playing the government leading roles at all levels, we mobilized the social strength participation positively, the philanthropy extremely is specially flourishing in Jilin province. Jilin Province Charity Federation was established in 1993, and it is the first provincial charity organization in new China. For many years, Jilin philanthropy based upon the province situation, to innovate and develop, we has formed the charitable spirit and went out a healthy development path. Only in 2006, Jilin province altogether received near hundred million Yuan contributions.

Jilin province also established the linkage work mechanism of unemployment insurance, re-employment, subsidy allowance for low income family, guaranteed the city fundamental objects to get rid of poverty to return the society.

Jilin Province city and countryside social aid system must help more and more people in difficulty to get rid of poverty, and make them share the achievements of the reform and development, and build the better social environment to promote Jilin Province economy and society to develop quickly.

Jilin Province is a piece of fertile land full of hopes. Jilin Province is hugging the world with the brand-new looks.