Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security: As of the end of September, the number of people insured by my country’s basic pension insurance reached 1.079 billion

On the morning of October 10, the State Council Information Office held a series of press conferences with the theme of "Getting Started with the 15th Five-Year Plan" to introduce the situation of promoting high-quality development of employment and social security during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. Li Zhong, spokesperson and deputy minister of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, said that as of the end of September, the number of people covered by basic pension insurance, unemployment insurance, and work-related injury insurance nationwide reached 1.079 billion, 251 million, and 327 million respectively, and the cumulative balance of the three social insurance funds was 11.2 trillion yuan.

Li Zhong pointed out that in the next step, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security will coordinate the expansion of insurance coverage, deepen reforms, optimize services, etc., and continue to weave the social security network denser and stronger. The focus is to encourage and support people with flexible employment and new employment forms to participate in employee pension insurance, actively carry out interviews to expand enterprise annuity coverage, solidly promote the implementation of the personal pension system, improve social security relationship transfer and continuation policies, actively promote more social security services nationwide and use one social security card, strengthen the safety supervision and value preservation and appreciation of social security funds, and make social security more practical, more optimized and more reliable.