All miners, construction workers to be insured
(Shanghai Daily)
Updated: 2006-04-30 14:36 Work safety authorities will include all migrant
workers from high-risk industries into China's industrial injury insurance
system in three years, the Beijing News reported today.
The authorities plan, dubbed the "Safety Program," will focus on industries
with environments that are considered high-risk, such as the mining and building
industry; which involves huge amounts of migrant-workers.
The plan will first assure that 100 percent of the country's miners will be
properly insured, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security said yesterday.
The ministry also said that it would experiment with personal accounts of its
pension fund system in eight more provinces and municipalities, including
Tianjin, Shanghai and Shanxi.
About 176 million people were included in the pension fund system by the end
of the first three months of the year, 1.2 million more than the number at the
end of last year.
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