Residential Conditions
In 2007, the district increased the housing estate landscaped area by 784,000 square meters and the leak-free area by 2.07 million square meters. Meanwhile, 10 housing estates, with a total floor space of 1 million square meters, were rated as Shanghais four high housing estates. At the end of the year, the districts average urban residential area reached 22.33 square meters, higher than Shanghais average level.
Personal Income
The districts per capita urban disposable income in 2007 was 20,154 yuan, up 10.2 percent over the previous year. The per capita rural disposable income was 11,379 yuan, up 10.8 percent.
Personal Savings
In 2007, the districts balance of personal savings deposits reached 61.03 billion yuan, up 2.8 percent over the previous year.
Employment
The district created 37,103 new jobs for the local people in 2007. In addition, it has established a district arbitration court for labor disputes to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the working people and to promote harmonious labor relations. While the field study bases attracted 2,100 young people, 3,429 rural people participated in skill training. At the end of the year, the district had 14,000 registered jobless people. By carrying out various job-creation projects and by developing cultural and other service items, a total of 17,400 people found jobs. About 40 percent of them had difficulty in getting employed.
Social Security
In 2007, the district had 452,800 permanent residents participating in city insurance. The participating in town insurance totaled 100,400 people. While 75,600 rural people participated in rural insurance, 383,600 migrant workers also participated in general insurance each month on average.
A total of 265.9 thousand people from urban enterprises, public institutions and state organs participated in medical insurance. The medical insurance premiums paid in the year totaled 707 million yuan. Rural cooperative medical insurance attracted 110 thousand people, at a participation rate of 98 percent. The total medical expense payment was 52.68 million yuan.
In 2007, the unemployment insurance fund paid a total of 109.171 million yuan to the beneficiaries.
Welfare and Relief
The district had 32 nursing homes. In 2007, these institutions added 800 beds, bring the total to 5,374. Another 1,100 elderly people chose to receive home-based care in the year, bring the total to 5,295 people. In addition, the district established 56 new standard activity rooms for the aged, bringing the total to 363. Beginning in September 2007, the district waived the tuition fees for 226 senior high and college students whose families lived on minimum living allowance. The total cost was 238,200 yuan. In addition, the district offered tuition allowance, totaling 1.9975 million yuan, to 432 college students who came from families receiving minimum living allowance.
The district had 17,100 urban people receiving social security. In particular, it offered relief to 14,200 workersrelatives, jobless people and their relatives, in 8,061 households. The monthly minimum living allowance totaled 3.35 million yuan. In 2007, the district provided 48.38 million yuan in relief fund to 202,800 poor urban people. In 2007, the district had 2,433 poor rural people from 1,080 households. As a result, the district and town governments spent 1.82 million yuan for this purpose.
In the year, the district issued 8.23 million yuan in medical relief to 5900 people who suffered from major or serious diseases. On top of this relief, the district granted 4.936 million yuan in regional allowance to 2696 poor people. For the whole year, the district spent 7.136 million yuan on various types of social security programs, offering timely relief to 1559 poor or disabled people.
The district also established a 3.79-million-yuan special mutual help fund for its citizens, to which the municipal and district governments respectively contributed 2.59 million yuan and 1.2 million yuan.
