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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 27 December 2011 19:59
According to Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Labor and Social Security, in 2011 Ningbo realized complete coverage of medical insurance for urban citizens, with the number of medical insurance participants in urban areas amounting to 583,700.
It is learned that to extend the medical insurance coverage for urban citizens is one of the serving-the-people projects of Ningbo municipal government. This year, Ningbo further raised the insurance payment ratio for hospitalized patients and patients of special diseases. This benefit for the medical insurance participants made the payment settlement more convenient and encouraged more people to participate in the medical insurance.
Statistics show that in 2011 the coverage of the medical insurance programs of old residents, people without fixed employment and children in early childhood reached 98.06% and the coverage of the students reached 97.13%. “So far, the social medical insurance system has basically covered all urban residents,” said a person from Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Labor and Social Security.
Of the medical insurance participants of urban citizens, over 10,000 are people living on basic minimum living allowance, and the severely disable people. Thanks to the policy of the whole premium paid by the government, the poverty-stricken people whole are prone to diseases are covered by the urban residents medical insurance system.
Besides, the participants of college students of the medical insurance have increased by about 10%. This year 139,700 college students participated in medical insurance, with the participation rate amounting to 97.62%
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Category: Charity Ningbo
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Published: Tuesday, 27 December 2011 19:58
For the New Year and the Spring Festival, the trade unions of various levels of Ningbo will raise funds of 25 million yuan to help the 30,000 families of poverty-stricken local workers and migrant workers. The other day, at the meeting celebrating the 20th anniversary of the “helping the poor” program, Ningbo Trade Union started the program for the coming festivals. It is reported that the program will have the following activities:
presenting newspapers, aiding the workers of special jobs, helping the workers of serious diseases, aiding the students of poor families, inviting poor people to festival dinners, and giving free trip for migrant workers going home.
From December 23 to the eve of the Spring Festival, Zhejiang Trade Union and Ningbo General Trade Union will organize visits to enterprises and workers in difficulty. According to the plan, 10 teams will be dispatched to visit small and minor enterprises in difficulty, the poverty-stricken workers, the model workers and various people in need. Consolation money and gifts will be given to all the workers in poverty.
From January 12 to 13, Ningbo General Trade Union and Ningbo Branch of ICBC will carry out the program of “free air trip for migrant workers to go home”, and 400 model migrant workers from Shaanxi, Sichuan, Hunan and Guizhou will be given free air trip for their home towns
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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 27 December 2011 19:57
In the first year of the 12th Five-Year-Plan Period, Ningbo has made achievements in all aspects that concern the livelihood of the people like employment, social security, medical care, education, culture, food and drug and social management. At the press conference by Ningbo Municipal Government held on the 20th this month, Ren Jiancheng, Deputy Director of Ningbo Municipal Development and Reform Commission, announced that this year the city has enhanced the livelihood of the people, improved the public services, and optimized the mechanism.
Today, Ningbo has 8 full-employment counties (cities and districts). The city has increased 142,000 jobs, 56,000 urban unemployed residents have got reemployed, the registered unemployment rate in cities is bellow 3.33%, and the number of “zero-employed families” remains zero. By September this year, the city has increased 74,000 businesses.
The city has accelerated the municipal-level integrated social insurance, timely increased the social security standard, and further widened the insurance coverage.
This year, Ningbo released the Middle and Long Term Plan for the Development of Education. It has take active measures to solve the problems of pre-school education. It has extended the schooling aiding program to students from pre-schooling to postgraduate programs. It has popularized the free of charge physic examination among all students including the children of migrant workers.
In the implement of the food safety strategy, the city has improved the mechanism of information transparency for food safety, timely releasing information concerning food safety. It has taken special actions to crack down the production of bogus medicines and standardized the medicine market order
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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 27 December 2011 19:57
At the commending meeting of national spiritual civilization held in Beijing on the morning of December 20, Ningbo once again won the title of a National Wenming City, as one of the six cities that have won the title for successively three times.
Liu Qi, Mayor of Ningbo Municipality, said, as early in 2001, Ningbo Municipal Party Committee and Ningbo Municipal Government set the target to win the honor for a third time. Since then, the city has followed the principles of “for the people, by the people and benefitting the people” in the building of the Wenming City. The city has associated the program with all aspects of the development of the city, such as politics, economy, culture, social development, urban construction and management. Liu Qi said, the success in winning the title of National Wenming City for a third time indicates that Ningbo has made great achievements in the work and that the central government has affirmed the achievements Ningbo has made in the economic and social development. This is also an urge for the future development of Ningbo.
It is known that the National Wenming City is the greatest honor that the central government grants to a city. This title is not permanent. A city so entitled must take the annual examination by the central government and the re-examination once every three years. On October 26 in 2005 Ningbo gained the honor as one of the first group of National Wenming Cities. On January 20 in 2009 Ningbo passed the re-examination and won the title for a second time. This year, Ningbo passed the re-examination and successfully won the championship for the third time