Shaanxi Will Increase 360 thousand Urban Jobs and Implement Critical Illness Insurance System This Year

This morning (Jan. 24), the Fourth Session of the 12th People's Congress of Shaanxi Province opened at Shaanxi Grand Hall. Provincial governor Lou Qinjian, on behalf of Shaanxi Provincial People's Government, stated in the report on the government’s work that, this year, Shaanxi will increase urban employment for 360 thousand people, transfer 5.6 million rural labors, and put emphasis on guiding college graduates to work in grass-roots units, become self-employed, and employment of “over capacity relieving” laid-off workers .

Lou Qinjian indicated that, in 2016, Shaanxi will perfect the insurance policies for land-requisitioned farmers, self-employed individuals and rural migrant workers in cities, etc. and gradually realize overall planning of unemployment and employment injury insurance at the provincial level. Advance urban and rural residents’ basic medical insurance system adjustment, and implement urban and rural residents’ critical illness insurance system. Perfect urban and rural poor supply system, implement poor disabled living allowances and severely disabled care subsidy system, realize complete public cemetery in counties, develop multiform nursing homes, and encourage all sectors of society to carry out charity activities and voluntary service.