Residential Conditions

In 2008, the district increased the housing estate landscaped area by 4.27 million square meters and the leak-free area by 3 million square meters. Meanwhile, four housing estates, with a total floor space of 572,000 square meters, were rated as Shanghai’s “four high” housing estates. The old housing estates of  2.19 million square meters were reconstructed. By the end of the year, the district’s average urban residential area reached 23 square meters, higher than Shanghai’s average level.

Personal Income

The district’s per capita urban disposable income in 2008 was 22,803 yuan, up 12.8% over the previous year. The per capita rural disposable income was 14,496 yuan, up 14.1%.

Personal Savings

In 2008, the district’s balance of personal savings deposits reached 81.371 billion yuan, up 33.3% over the previous year.

Employment

In 2008, Pujiang employment sub-center and Huacao employment sub-center were put into operation. There were employment service stations for migrant workers in the 13 towns, sub-districts and Xinzhuang Industrial Zone. The public employment service network expanded further. Pujiang Human Resource Agency Park and Huacao Human Resource Agency Park were established and 57 employment agencies entered. They had offered positions to 13,800 person-times and realized the connection of the marketization of employment agencies and the commonweal of employment services.

There were 35,834 new local positions and 13,036 local laborers and 26,108 migrant workers participated in trainings. There were totally 24 employment projects offering thousands or hundreds positions with 18,506 employees allocated. There were 18 employment bases for those in “Double Difficulties” and absorbed 342 persons who had difficulties in getting employed. There were 94 youth internship bases with 1,968 new participators.

Social Security

In 2008, the district carried out district-level overall planning of rural community old-age insurance. The district had 71,153 rural insurance participators, 20,380 pensioners. Peasants’ pension reached 350 yuan per month. The district centralized the management of 33,834 land expropriation pensioners and their allowances standard reached 608 yuan per month. There were 81 village doctors to ensure the health care services. 463 thousand migrant workers also participated in general insurance. The insured range of the urban uninsured senior citizen expanded from over 70 years old to over 65 years old. The accumulative total of insured senior citizens was 2,627.

In 2008, the unemployment insurance fund paid a total of 213 million yuan to the beneficiaries.

Welfare and Relief

The district had 35 nursing homes. In 2008, these institutions added 1,000 beds, bringing the total number of beds to 6,374. Another 2,730 elderly people chose to receive home-based care in the year, bringing the total to 7, 430 people. In addition, the district established 34 various canteens for 2,700 elderly people and 50 new standard activity rooms for the aged with the investment of 18,128 million yuan, bringing the total to 413. The district established 7 day care centers for the aged, bringing the total to 13.

In 2008, the district paid various relief funds of 148 million yuan. Specifically, urban assistance and security funds of 55,909 million yuan, covering 16,955 persons, rural assistance and security funds of 3.7251 million yuan, covering 1,005 households of 2,240 persons and 436 disabled or jobless people.

The district issued allowances of 49.9444 million yuan to 25,785 retired returnees from inland who supported the construction there. The district issued 8.4864 million yuan in medical relief to 5,161 people who suffered from major or serious diseases. Allowances of 132,100 yuan were issued to 2,599 children whose families lived on minimum living allowance and received medical bill waiver from Mutual Fund of Children Hospitalization.

The district waived the tuition, totaling 515,100 yuan, for 486 senior high school students who came from families receiving minimum living allowance. The district offered tuition allowance, totaling 2.1364 million yuan, to 449 college students who came from families receiving minimum living allowance. The district issued over 280 million yuan in various allowances including rural minimum pension allowance and relief in festivals.

As of the end of 2008, the special mutual help fund raised accumulatively 8.73 million yuan, and spent accumulatively 1.064 million yuan in relief and aids.