In 2016, Zhoukou CC&TSPM of Henan will enhance the life security of pastoral staff in the following aspects: increasing living allowance, purchasing insurance, visiting, and establishing retired life support mechanisms.
For a long time, many preachers don't have fixed wages and fundamental life secure. Some don't dare to serve under the pressure of family and life. So there is a great loss of clergymen. Recently, Zhoukou CCC&TSPM made a decision that they would take to guarantee the life demands of clergymen and the stability of clergymen.
The official website of the local Religious Affairs Bureau reports that Zhoukou will enhance the living security of clergymen in five aspects:
1. To increase the living allowance of clergymen to ensure their stability
2. To purchase endowment insurances, half paid by the place and half by clergymen themselves for clergymen working in religious activity places
3. To purchase employee's medical insurance and industrial injury insurance for qualified clergymen.
4. To build a visiting mechanism in which churches will organize to visit for affairs like sickness, marriage or the deaths of clergymen and their direct relatives
5. To establish a retired life support mechanism for clergymen
Besides Zhoukou, Ningxia, Taian of Shandong, Yuexi of Anhui, Qidong of Jiangsu, and Tangshan of Hebei have increased their life allowances.
