CRI 2010.01.08
New Pension Scheme Aims to Provide Security to Farmers
Social security workers have begun a massive doorknocking campaign to enroll farmers in a pioneering pension scheme in China's Jilin and Fujian provinces.
The government-subsidized pension scheme is aimed at improving the lives of China's estimated 800 million rural people and narrowing the urban-rural wealth gap.
A pilot scheme, which is expected to cover 1.3 million people in Jilin and 300,000 in Fujian, began Thursday. Under a plan by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the scheme is expected to expand across the country gradually every year.
Rural people aged 16 and above can open pension accounts at local social security bureaus.
中国の農民への公的年金を計画。
2010年1月7日から、2つの農村都市で実験的な試みが開始された。
幾つかの段階の保険料に国庫からの積み増し。
16歳以上から加入。
保険料納入期間は15年。
71歳以上から支給。
The establishment of the new pension plan will ensure basic living standards of the elderly in rural China. The policy benefits farmers and helps narrow the gap between urban and rural areas.
It was vital to promoting equality of access to public services among the Chinese people,
Premier Wen Jiabao said in August 2009.