The system reform providing for the aged of shiye danwei keeps up with that of enterprises, and the pension will reduce sharply.

Ms. Chen Lihua, who works for a school in Guangdong province for over 30 years, will retire on schedule on May this year; however, she is fidgeting about whether she should apply for an early retirement at present.

On the 28^th December of last year, when she start work in the morning, a friend who worked together told her that a reform of pension for all the shiye danwei in Guangdong province may carried out in 2009. And this information made Ms. Chen feel worried, because she should have been qualified a retirement pay of 1300 yuan per month according to the policy at that time. But once calculating the pension through the new way, there will be a sharp reducing of it.

In fact, the system reform of pension of shiye danwei at selected plot has been issued formally, including Shanxi province, Shanghai, Zhejiang province, Guangdong province and Chongqing. Yesterday, Mr. Yi Chengji, official spokesperson of Human Resources and Social Security Department (HRSSD), told China Business News that the State Council of China required the five selected provinces starting this reform from this year. He also indicated that it could also bring out the system of enterprises and shiye danwei dovetail. And the scheme would focus on the problem of the big gap of pension between these two types of institutes.

Heavy load on finance

One of the principle reasons that push the government reform the pension and security system is the heavy load on finance, which is due to the fast rising salaries, and the great number of employees in the recent years. Until the end of 2005, the shiye danwei was amounting to 1.25 million, dealing with a wide range of fields such as education, agriculture, radio and TV channels, and press and publication. The total number of employess had been already over 30 million, which is 4.3 times as civil servants, taking up nearly 80% of number of people that provided by the government. Besides, the total amount of pension that supported by government was only 5.95 billion yuan in 1990, but now it far exceeds hundred of billion which is over 20 times.

In the mean time, it shows that the earning difference of retirees from enterprises and shiye danwei is in a trend of widening. Although the basic pensions for retirees from enterprises is marking up continuously, the average number which amount to 1080 yuan is still far below that of shiye danwei’s standard.

It is reported that the new scheme at the selected spots will be identical to the enterprises; therefore, it would lead to a lower treatment to the shiye danwei employees with no doubt. 

ps. shiye danwei means nonprofit units that have no administrative, allocative, or regulatory authorities beyond their own organizational boundaries, such as newspapers, research institutes, and hospitals.

Railway Ministry: the identification system for train ticket may cause serious traffic jam

The Railway Ministry held the second press conference for transport during the Spring Festival period on 15th Jan. 2009. Mr. Zhang Shuguang, who is Assistant Chief Engineer of the Railway Ministry and Secretary for Transport, introduced the forceful measures that being used to respond to the peak time for passenger transport.

He said, in the recent periods of transportation around the Spring Festival, the view of identification system for train ticket has been put forward, which means the ID card will be checked when passengers enter into the station. In my opinion, although the starting point of this view is positive, it would be necessary to consider if this is feasible through seriously research. I know that there are some transport departments have adopted the measure that using ID card buying tickets and checking in, in which the point of departure is on the safe side. However, it is still questionable that whether the railway transportation is qualified to carry out in the same way.

First of all, the transport capacity will not be strengthened after this system been adopted. At the moment, there is a big contradiction between transport capacity and freight volume, where the freight volume is far from enough. As a result, if that identification system had been accepted now, it would be no doubt that the work load of redundancy procedures will be increased. For example, there are over 280 trains at Beijing West Railway Station every day and two hundred thousand passengers at peak time. Besides, the train will be sent out every five minuets. Generally speaking, there are around 2000 passengers in one train, where only 30 minuets would be needed for the whole work of checking in. But if we add the procedure of checking the ID card to every passenger, assuming 2 seconds being cost per card, nearly another one hour will be raised for this process which originally been thought to be tense.

Secondly, the railway is the most common way of public transport. In the train station with limited volume, if we check the ID card in the mean time when people get into the station, it will result in a large assembly for parts of passengers. Not only a seriously block-up will happen at station square, booking office and entrance and exit area, many unsafe factors my bring out as well, such as stampede when the volume of passengers is large and the consequence is unbearable to recall.

Last but not least, it would be inconvenient to both passengers and station staffs. For instance, the booking-office clerks have to type the ID number and name into computer which means more amount of work. Therefore, the principle reason that we still not adopt this system is due to unsuccessful hardware, including construction of railway net, more advanced technology that could be used at buying tickets and check in procedure.

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the picture shows people waiting to buy the tickets -_-;