Community Service Center

The market-oriented employment mechanism has gradually taken shape and the combination of securities to laid-off and unemployed workers was realized.The whole city provided 370,000 new jobs, of which 158,000 belongs to the urban areas, the unemployment rate of urban area was 3.93%. The number of workers participating in retirement, unemployment, medical,injury and maternity insurance all exceeds 1 million.“Management Method of the Essential Retirement Insurance in Rural Areas” was promulgated. 922,700 farmers joined the retirement insurance, taking up 43.9% of the total labor forces in the rural area.And 391,000 farmers had received basic retirement pension or subsidy. Minimum living

Citizens Receive Keys to Houses

guarantee level was raised higher than the last year. The whole city now has nearly 200 senior citizen service centers and provides nearly 10,000 beds. The Rehabilitation Center of Suzhou Welfare Institution and the Center for the Handicapped were established. Suzhou municipality and World Wheelchair Foundation jointly donated nearly 20,000 wheelchairs to the handicapped in the whole city, realizing the goal of one wheelchair for one who need it.

Apartment for the Old

The Elders'Pastime