中國多省下調社保繳費費率
Shanghai government announced its decision on last Monday to lower social security premium contributed by companies by 2.5 percentage points, making it the seventh region to launch similar easing measures.
上海市政府上週一宣佈，決定進一步降低當地社會保險費率，總體下降2.5個百分點。這樣上海也成爲全國第七個實行類似緩和措施的地區。Such decision is expected to lighten corporate burden by about 13.5 billion yuan this year, according to a government announcement.
根據該市政府的一項聲明指出，這一決定預計今年將爲企業2016年全年減負約135億元。The city will slash the premium rate contributed by companies for mandatory pension by 1 percentage point, medical also by 1 percentage point and unemployment insurance by 0.5 percentage point, while maintaining the same level of social security benefits.
據悉，上海市養老保險費率單位繳費部分下調1個百分點；基本醫療保險費率也下調1個百分點；失業保險費率下調0.5個百分點。但是與此同時，也會保持同一水平的社會保障福利。
Five provinces, Guangdong, Yunnan, Gansu, Guizhou and Jiangsu, together with Tianjin municipality, have reduced the social security premium on companies' behalf, in a drive to boost real economy.
包括廣東、雲南、甘肅、貴州、江蘇5省及天津市均下調了企業所繳的社保費率，以發展實體經濟。
Guangdong province cut the premium rate for unemployment, medical and working injury insurances, saving corporate expenditures by 35 billion yuan.
廣東省方面，降低社會保險費成本的對象主要是失業、醫療、工傷險三種，預計到今年年底爲該省企業節省開支約350億元。According to a government guidance released last month, Tianjin will lower companies' contribution to social insurances by a combined 1.43 percentage points.
根據上個月發佈的一項政府指導意見指出，天津市將會使得繳納費率共降低1.43個百分點。Chongqing municipality and Qinghai province are planning to be the next two, reported the 21th Century Business Herald, as the regions have brought up such cuts on agenda as part of the supply-side reform.
根據21世紀經濟報報道，重慶市、青海省計劃成爲接下來採取措施的兩個地區，因爲這兩個地區已經就供給側改革提出了類似的削減計劃。The move comes in response to a general cry for easing corporate burden by government officials and scholars, as Chinese employers are reportedly burdened with one of the highest social security obligation in the world.
下調企業社保費率的措施是爲了對學者和政府官員強烈呼籲給企業減負的迴應。據悉，在社保職責方面，中國企業是全球負擔最重的國家之一。
