Unemployment insurance is a system enforced by the state through legislation and set up by the society to provide material assistance to workers who have temporarily interrupted their livelihood due to unemployment.

All kinds of enterprises and their employees, institutions and their employees, social organizations and their employees, private non-enterprise units and their employees, and employees with whom state organs have established labor contracts shall apply for unemployment insurance. The unemployment insurance fund is mainly used to guarantee the basic livelihood of the unemployed. Urban enterprises, institutions, social organizations and private non-enterprise units pay unemployment insurance premiums at 2% of the total wages, and their employees pay unemployment insurance premiums at 1% of their wages. Units without fixed wages pay unemployment insurance premiums based on the average social wage in the last year in the overall planning area. The unit employs contract workers of farmers and herdsmen who do not pay unemployment insurance premiums.

At present, the scope of employees participating in unemployment insurance in China includes: on-the-job employees; Full-time employees such as unpaid leave, long vacation, loan, and internal retirement; Laid-off workers entering the re-employment service center; Other employees who have established labor relations with their own units (including temporary workers and rural laborers who have established labor relations). Unemployed people in urban enterprises and institutions can enjoy unemployment insurance benefits if they meet the following conditions in accordance with relevant regulations: they participate in unemployment insurance according to regulations, and their units and themselves fulfill their payment obligations according to regulations 1 year; Secondly, they didn't stop their employment because of their own wishes, and they registered as unemployed and had job requirements.