Residential Conditions

In 2010, the district constructed new commodity houses of 2,580,000 square meters. Five residential communities, with a total construction area of 699,900 square meters, were rated as "Shanghai's energy-saving and floor-saving four-high housing estates".

The district completed 26 supporting projects for public buildings, with a construction area of 147,400 square meters. Besides, the district carried out renovation projects in 65 old residential communities, covering 1,043 buildings and a total construction area of 3,250,000 square meters.

Specifically, 59 renovation projects changed the flat roofs to sloping ones, covering a total construction area of 3,030,000 square meters in 984 buildings; six ones were comprehensive renovations, covering a total construction area of 220,000 square meters in 59 buildings.

In 2010, 217 families were offered lower rent houses and the house-renting subsidy reached RMB 4.89 million.

Personal Income

In 2010, the per capita urban and rural disposable income continued to grow, reaching RMB 27,403 and RMB 17,856, up by 9.7% and 11.0% respectively. The ratio between the former and latter dropped from 1.55 to 1.53.

Personal Savings

In 2010, the district's balance of personal savings deposits reached RMB 115.4 billion, up 16.4% over the beginning of the year.

Employment

In 2010, Minhang District continued the three programs of "employment assistance", "vocational training", and "market regulation". In the district, 34,700 new jobs were offered to local workers, exceeding the annual goal by 15.8%. In specific, 8,508 were offered to the landless farmers and rural surplus labor force, exceeding the annual goal by 70.2% 16,200 local workers, 28,200 migrant workers, and 1,680 technical workers received the vocational training.

In the district, there were 33 new intern bases for young people, receiving 1,684 participants. The government offered job opportunities to 452 residents who had difficulty in hunting a job and helped at least one member in each of 114 households, in which none of the family members had a job, to find a job. In 2010, two enterprises were recognized as enterprises with financial difficulties.

The subsidies of RMB 86,400 at the town and district levels were offered to 120 persons. Subsidies of social insurance premium was given to 3,500 enterprises, and the subsidies social insurance premium for enterprises in 2009 granted in one lump sum reached RMB 240 million.

The district enhanced the construction of start-up service platform and founded the website "Help for Self-employment" (http://zhch.shmh.gov.cn/). With the launch of the Self-employment Program for 1000 People, 1,004 new enterprises were built, and 5,779 people found new jobs, two of which were covered into Shanghai Ten Promising Entrepreneurs of Mini-enterprises. By the end of 2010, the registered unemployed residents were 14,002, 348 less than those in 2009.

Social Security

In 2010, more residents were covered in the social security system. By the end of 2010, the district had 449,000 urban insurance participants and 309,100 of them paid premium. The urban insurance funds collected reaching RMB 5.847 billion in the year, up by 16.1% over the previous year.

38, 400 people in the district paid the social insurance premium at the town level, including 3,726 policy-holders whose land was taken away for public use, and the total premium paid by enterprises and institutions amounted to RMB 480 million. 73,800 people paid premium for social insurance for rural residents and the number of pensioners reached 15,300.

The district centralized the management of 33,700 people who received pension due to land expropriation. Great efforts were made to provide comprehensive insurance to migrant workers.

In total, there were 27,300 enterprises that had participated in the insurance, an increase of 13.9% over the previous year. 456,000 people in the district became policy-holders of the comprehensive insurance.

In 2010, 297,000 people benefited from industrial injury insurance, medical insurance for hospitalization for serious illness, and old age subsidy, etc. The total cost covered amounted to RMB 586 million, an increase of 25.8% over the previous year.

Welfare and Relief

In the district, there are 41 nursing homes and 714 new nursing beds have been added in 2010. By the end of the year, the total number of beds had reached 7,491, an increase of 1.5 % over the previous year. 2,350 more citizens chose to receive home-based care, bringing the total to 11,550.

In the year, activities have been carried out to help 5,450 senior citizens to have meals and 5 new meal service stations were added. By the end of 2010, there had been a sum of 46 various meal service stations in the district. Four integrated activity centers for senior citizens were built, together with 24 standardized seniors' activity rooms. The number of standard activity rooms for the elderly in the whole district had reached 477, accounting for 92.3% of the residents' (villagers') committees in the district.