The pilot program for occupational injury protection will now broadly include platform companies from three industries: ride-hailing, on-demand delivery, and intra-city freight starting this year. The pilot scheme for occupational injury protection for workers in new forms of employment continues to expand. Effective July 1 this year, nine ride-hailing platform companies, including T3出行, and five on-demand delivery platform enterprises, such as Xiaoxiang Supermarket and Hema Fresh, will be included in the pilot program. This development was disclosed at a regular press conference held by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security on April 28. In recent years, the protection of rights for workers in new forms of employment, such as food delivery riders, has attracted significant public attention. Currently, some flexible workers and those in new employment forms are not covered by the social security system, leading to issues of being uninsured, underinsured, or experiencing coverage gaps. To address this gap, the government has been advancing the occupational injury protection pilot in recent years. Within the framework of the工伤保险制度, and considering the characteristics of new employment forms, a per-order billing and mandatory coverage model for occupational injury protection has been proposed. The pilot was launched in 2022. In July 2025, a notice jointly issued by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and eight other departments, titled "关于扩大新就业形态人员职业伤害保障试点的通知," came into effect. It outlines a three-year plan to progressively expand the occupational injury protection pilot through three dimensions: increasing the number of provinces, adding more enterprises, and broadening the range of industries. "Starting July 1, 2025, the pilot has expanded to 17 provinces and 11 platform enterprises. As of now, cumulative participation has exceeded 27 million people, effectively providing a safety net for major injury and death incidents," explained Wang Li, Deputy Director of the Work-Related Injury Insurance Department at the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, during the conference. Wang Li pointed out that, following the overall "three-year, three-step" work plan, this year will see a further expansion of the occupational injury protection pilot, rolling it out comprehensively across all 31 provinces and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. Regarding the participating enterprises, Wang Li stated that this year, platform companies from the three pilot industries—ride-hailing, on-demand delivery, and intra-city freight—will be broadly included in the pilot scope. Effective July 1, nine ride-hailing platform companies will be incorporated into the pilot, including T3出行, 花小猪出行, 阳光出行, 如祺出行, 享道出行, 及时用车, 风韵出行, 首汽约车, and 美团打车. Additionally, five on-demand delivery platform companies—Xiaoxiang Supermarket, Hema Fresh, 叮咚买菜, 朴朴超市, and UU跑腿—will also be included. "On this basis, provinces will include small and medium-sized platform enterprises registered within their jurisdiction and whose business scope is limited to the province or neighboring areas. This will be done according to the principle of 'including them in batches as they become ready,' with the aim of broadly incorporating them within the year," Wang Li said.
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