In April 2025, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) launched a campaign to strengthen procuratorial supervision over the enforcement of non-litigation administrative acts in the social security sector.
By March this year, procuratorates nationwide had handled 4,058 such cases and issued 3,121 procuratorial recommendations.
Some businesses — especially construction enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises that rely on flexible employment arrangements — have violated the mandatory provisions of the Social Insurance Law by failing to pay or underpaying social insurance contributions.
Targeting issues such as delayed social insurance payments and inadequate protection of the rights and interests of workers in new forms of employment, procuratorial organs have strengthened legal supervision to urge relevant administrative organs to protect workers' legitimate rights and interests.
Moreover, some employers, in an attempt to reduce labor costs, replaced the statutory social insurance contributions — especially work-related injury insurance — with commercial insurance policies, such as employer liability insurance or group accident insurance.
Some even used shell companies to disrupt the order of social insurance collection and contribution. In response, procuratorial organs lawfully issued recommendations for retrials and urged relevant administrative authorities to strengthen their oversight of social insurance premium payments.
According to the SPP's Administrative Procuratorial Department, procuratorial organs will focus on key sectors including engineering construction, manufacturing and public services, as well as key groups such as workers in new forms of employment, the elderly, people with disabilities, women and migrant workers.
They will continue to fulfill their procuratorial duties and strengthen collaboration mechanisms with departments such as human resources, social security, and labor unions in order to foster synergies for protecting the legitimate rights and interests of workers.
