China is striving to safeguard the public's interest by
strengthening job-related insurance efforts, Xinhua learned from
the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MLSS) on Wednesday.
Job-related insurance is expected to cover 128 million people by
year end, with 46 million rural migrant workers among them, said
Yang Zhiming, MLSS deputy chief.
As an essential part of the country's efforts to enlarge its
public insurance scope, China has pledged to insure more rural
migrant workers.
The country vowed to insure all rural migrant workers involved
in highly-dangerous industries by the end of 2008, the fifth year
China had introduced the Work-related Injury Insurance
Regulation.
Rural migrant workers in coal mines and other non-coal mines,
construction industries, combustible and explosive chemical plants
will get insured this year.
Last year, work-related injury insurance covered 121.55 million
people nationwide, including 39.66 million rural migrant workers.
About 940,000 people benefited from the fund. In 2003, the figure
was 300,000.
Yang added the government was going to perfect the standard of
the work-related insurance system to raise public interest
safeguard levels.
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(Xinhua News Agency February 21, 2008)