Cctv news(News Network): General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed that social security is the basic institutional guarantee for safeguarding and improving people’s livelihood, maintaining social equity and enhancing people’s well-being. It is necessary to intensify redistribution, strengthen the function of mutual assistance and mutual aid, and bring more people into the social security system, so as to provide more reliable and adequate protection for the broad masses of the people and constantly meet their multi-level and diversified needs. In the first year of the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan", China continued to improve the multi-level social security system covering the whole people, coordinating urban and rural areas, being fair, unified and sustainable, and the world’s largest social security network was continuously woven.
According to the latest data from Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, up to now, the number of social security card holders in China has reached 1.35 billion, covering more than 95.6% of the population. Since the beginning of this year, social security cards have been fully applied in the fields of employment and entrepreneurship, social insurance, personnel and labor relations.
On August 20, 2020, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader made a statement at the symposium on solidly promoting the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, "We should explore the establishment of residents’ service with social security cards as the carrier ‘ One card ’ Take the lead in transportation, sightseeing and cultural experience ‘ Treatment in the same city ’ " Important instructions.
In Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, the new generation of social security cards can not only realize the "same city treatment" for transportation in the province, but also be used on subways and buses in more than 300 cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. In addition, the new generation of social security cards has expanded the service application of cultural tourism this year.
Small cards solve people’s livelihood. At present, the social security card is gradually becoming the identity certificate and payment and settlement tool for people to enjoy government public services. Up to now, 500 million people have applied for electronic social security cards in China, and 9.27 billion people have been provided with services this year.
Making development achievements better benefit all the people is the key to weaving a dense social security net. This year, the state has continued to promote the universal enrollment plan, reduced the social insurance premium rate, transferred some state-owned capital to enrich the social security fund, and actively developed welfare undertakings such as providing for the aged, caring for the young and helping the disabled, so that people have a more comprehensive system guarantee when facing risks such as old age, illness, unemployment, work injury, disability and poverty. In Jinan, Shandong Province, in order to solve the problems of complicated retirement procedures and cumbersome materials, the human and social departments have explored and established a "silent authentication" platform for social security in Jinan through technologies such as big data analysis and information sharing, which can handle retirement-related social security services for ordinary people online.
At present, China takes social insurance as the main body, including social assistance, social welfare, social preferential treatment and other systems, and a fully functional social security system has basically been established. By the end of October 2021, the number of people participating in basic old-age insurance, unemployment insurance and industrial injury insurance in China had reached 1.02 billion, 227 million and 280 million respectively. The largest social security system in the world is becoming the guarantee for more than 1.4 billion Chinese to live and work in peace and contentment.