The NPC Standing Committee examined and adopted the "Labor Contract Law", "Employment Promotion Law", and “Law of Mediation and Arbitration of Labor Disputes", the State Council promulgated the "Regulation on the Employment of the Disabled" and "Regulations on Paid Annual Leave for Employees". The labor security supervision agencies hit 3,271 at the end of 2007; a rate of labor security supervision organs was 94.2 percent. Labor and social security departments at all levels of Labor and Social Security with full-time ombudsman amounted to 22 thousand. A series of departmental rules has been published, including supporting regulations for “Civil Servant Law of People's Republic of China”: “Regulations on Paid Annual Leave for Employees in Institutions”, “Regulation on Paid Annual Leave for Employees in Enterprises”, “Appointment, Dismissal, Promotion and Demotion of Civil Servants (for Trial Implementation)”, “Appointment of Civil Servants by Transfer (for Trial Implementation)”, “Provisions on the Training of Civil Servants (for Trial Implementation)”, “Provisions on Recruitment of Civil Servants (for Trial Implementation)”, “Provisions on Encouragement of Civil Servants (for Trial Implementation)”, “Provisions on Appeal of Civil Servants (for Trial Implementation)”, and joint promulgated regulations with related sectors such as: “Temporary Provisions on Chinese Communist Party Discipline Sanctions for Violations of Petition Work”, “Measures for Punishing Behaviors Violating the Land Administrative Provisions”, “Provisional Regulation on Disciplining Dereliction of Duty in Environmental Protection Activity”, “Interim Provisions on Active Pre-Listed Military Reserve Officers”, and other regulations.

VII. Infrastructure

In order to continuously strengthen the institutional capacity and infrastructure construction, through the implementation of "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" project of labor and social security, “Innovative Talents”, “Educational, Agricultural, and Medical Support and Poverty Alleviation Project”, “Introduction of Intellectual”, “Academic Leaders”, “Pioneer Park for Returned Overseas Students”, and other key projects, which effectively promoting the development of social security of human resources. At the end of 2008, labor and social security development on the cause of "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" project for determining the urban and rural co-ordinate employment and training, social security service management capacity-building, and capacity-building of labor security services based on the 13 projects of three systems engineering, of the total, 12 projects has established, and basically carried out the funds with a total of about 11.32 billion yuan.

“JinBao Project” construction kept fast pacing with the basic completion of the national system design and planning standards, 25 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) realized with all regulated cities networking, 87.3 percent cities above county levels achieved provincial data center networking, city-area network coverage up to 85 percent of the managing agency. Totally 168 million persons participated in basic pension insurance monitoring data to the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, the total uploaded data of unemployment registration and unemployment insurance network monitoring involved 3.80 million insurance persons. There are more than 229 cities above the county levels opened labor security services telephone number “12333”.

 

Notes:

 

1. The communiqué does not include the statistics on Hong Kong SAR, Macao SAR and Taiwan province.

2. The relevant data in this communiqué are the formal annual data and have a few differences with the part of the “Statistical Communiqué on the 2008 National Economic and Social Development ".

 

 

(National Bureau of Statistics May 22, 2009)