{"id":1646,"date":"2011-07-26T16:11:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T20:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2012-10-14T16:14:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T20:14:19","slug":"chinas-rural-pension-program-covers-199m-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/2011\/07\/26\/chinas-rural-pension-program-covers-199m-people\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s rural pension program covers 199m people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/business\/2011-07\/26\/content_12981534.htm\" target=\"_blank\">China Daily\u00a02011-07-26 09:24<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BEIJING &#8212; A total of 199 million Chinese rural residents had joined the country&#8217;s rural pension insurance program by the end of June, an official of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS) said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to a press conference, the MOHRSS spokesman Yin Chengji said 54.08 million rural residents had started to receive pensions from the state-subsided program that covered nine municipalities and provinces including Tibet Autonomous Region.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The pension program for urban and rural residents would be implemented on a trial basis in 60 percent of China&#8217;s cities and townships by the end of this year before being introduced nationwide next year, Yin said.<br \/>\nChina launched a pilot pension program for its 800 million-strong rural population in August, 2009, as part of efforts to narrow the standard-of-living gap between rural and urban residents.<br \/>\nAny rural resident over the age of 16 who does not take part in the government&#8217;s existing urban pension scheme is eligible to join the government-subsidized program.<br \/>\nFarmers over 60 will receive a monthly endowment of varying amounts set according to their area&#8217;s standard income levels after paying a fee to join the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Daily\u00a02011-07-26 09:24 BEIJING &#8212; A total of 199 million Chinese rural residents had joined the country&#8217;s rural pension insurance program by the end of June, an official of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS) said Monday. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/2011\/07\/26\/chinas-rural-pension-program-covers-199m-people\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40877,43385,43305],"tags":[97076],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1648,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/1648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}