(1) Improve the urban and rural maternity security systems to ensure that maternity insurance is available in all employing units, and to raise women's level of security at childbirth.

(2) Guarantee the basic medical insurance system coverage of women in both urban and rural areas and steadily promote the level of medical security.

(3) Progressively expand pension coverage of senior women. Continue to expand the old-age insurance coverage of individual urban business people and women without fixed employment, and significantly increase the proportion of women participating in the new social old-age insurance for rural residents.

(4) Increase the number of women participating in unemployment insurance and gradually improve their level of unemployment insurance benefits.

(5) Ensure that work-related injury insurance is available to all female employees who have established labor relations with employing units.

(6) Improve the standards of care services for senior women and expand to more than 90 percent coverage of community-based old-age care services in both urban and rural areas.

Strategies and Measures:

(1) Strengthen construction of a legal system of women's social security. Implement the Social Security Law of the People's Republic of China and enact supportive regulations to provide legal security for women to ensure that they enjoy maternity insurance, medical insurance, old-age insurance, unemployment insurance and work-related injury insurance.

(2) Improve the maternity insurance system. Improve the maternity insurance system for urban workers, expand the coverage of maternity insurance and raise the participation rate. Based on the basic medical insurance of urban residents, and the new rural cooperative medical care system, improve the maternity insurance system in both urban and rural areas to make it cover all the urban and rural women.

(3) Ensure basic medical security for both urban and rural women. Steadily improve the security level by expanding the coverage of basic medical insurance for urban workers, basic medical insurance for urban residents, and the new rural cooperative medical care system.

(4) Improve the urban and rural old-age insurance system. Improve the old-age insurance system for urban workers, promote establishment of the old-age insurance system for urban residents and advance the new social old-age insurance for rural residents.

(5) Further improve the unemployment insurance system. Expand unemployment insurance coverage to safeguard unemployed women's legitimate unemployment insurance rights and interests.

(6) Protect women workers' legal rights and interests based on work-related injury insurance. Expand the coverage of work-related injury insurance and strengthen law enforcement to ensure implementation of workers' compensation.

b. Mobilize all social forces in providing social assistance. Support and standardize social organizations' and citizens' assistance programs. Encourage social organizations to launch charity activities and mobilize social resources by all means to help needy women.

c. Ensure basic old-age care services for elderly women. Establish and improve the social old-age care service system through increased financial input. Develop non-profit nursing homes in communities, promote the professionalism of nursing staff, and raise the level of community-based old-age care services.

d. Ensure social security for women with disabilities. Allocate subsidies to severely disabled women and impoverished women with disabilities to enable them to pay premiums on social insurances including the new rural cooperative medical care system, urban residents' basic medical insurance, and the new social old-age insurance for rural residents. Guarantee the basic livelihood of poverty-stricken disabled women through multiple channels. Increas and improve welfare institutions and rehabilitation service centers for people with disabilities, and build comprehensive service facilities for the disabled in cities and counties. Promote community-based rehabilitation services for disabled women.