着力改善民生。兵团始终把保障和改善民生放在优先位置,着力解决好职工群众最关心最直接最现实的利益问题,促进社会公平正义,增进职工群众福祉,实现发展成果更多更公平惠及职工群众。经过多年努力,兵团的居民收入、住房、社会保障、就业等民生水平有了相当程度的提高。2013年,兵团城镇居民人均可支配收入2.31万元人民币、团场农牧工家庭人均纯收入1.43万元人民币、在岗职工平均工资4.40万元人民币,分别比上年增长17.8%、18.2%、17.4%;近几年,兵团累计投入347.8亿元人民币改善民生,开工建设城镇保障性住房14.3万户,实施城镇棚户区改造7.2万户,完成农村安居工程5.5万户。截至目前,已有70%以上的职工群众迁居新房。城镇居民养老保险实现全覆盖,参加基本医疗保险226.48万人,9.4万人享受最低生活保障,20多万人次得到医疗救助。2013年,兵团从业人数达125.34万人,在岗职工71.11万人,全年新增劳动力就业8.57万人,年末城镇登记失业率2.55%。
全面发展社会事业。兵团建立了从幼儿教育到大学教育的完整教育体系,实现了基本普及九年制义务教育和基本扫除青壮年文盲。截至2013年,兵团拥有普通和成人高等学校7所、中等职业学校24所、普通中学243所、小学55所,各民族在校生48.13万人。兵团的科技事业不断发展,拥有农垦科学院等科学研究与技术开发机构18个,各类专业技术人员约12万人。建有各类重点实验室14个,企业技术中心40个,工程技术研究中心24个。兵团公共文化服务体系建设步伐加快,建立了影剧院、文化馆、博物(纪念)馆、图书馆(室)、文化广场等一批文化活动场所,拥有专业文艺团体8个、业余文艺团队数百个,广播电视播出机构197座、网站66家,广播、电视综合覆盖率分别达到97%和98.8%,公开出版发行报刊杂志35种,每年出版各类文化图书100多种。兵团不断加大医疗卫生投入,建立了较为完善的公共卫生服务体系,医疗卫生条件不断改善,职工群众健康水平得到明显提高。拥有各类卫生机构1348个,各类卫生技术人员2.48万人,平均每千人拥有执业(助理)医师3.18人、注册护士3.89人、医院床位10张。2013年人口死亡率为4.94‰,婴儿死亡率为7.56‰,人均期望寿命76.79岁。
Make efforts to improve people's livelihood. The XPCC has always prioritized ensuring and improving people's livelihood. It has made every effort to address practical problems of the greatest and most direct concern to the people to promote social equality and justice, and to bring welfare to workers, so enabling them to benefit from the development achievements in a fairer way. After years of effort, people's livelihood, including incomes, housing conditions, social security, and employment level, has significantly improved. In 2013 the per capita disposable income of the XPCC's urban residents was RMB 23,100, an increase of 17.8% over the previous year; the per capita net income of households engaged in farming and animal husbandry was RMB 14,300, an 18.2% increase over the previous year; and the average salary of employed workers was RMB 44,000, 17.4% higher than the previous year. The XPCC has invested a total of RMB 34.78 billion in recent years in improving people's livelihood, starting the construction of 143,000 units of indemnificatory housing, transforming urban shanty towns encompassing 72,000 households, and completing rural housing projects benefiting 55,000 households. By now, more than 70% of workers have moved into new housing. The XPCC has achieved full endowment insurance coverage for urban residents. Moreover, it has acted to give 2.2648 million people basic medical insurance cover and more than 200,000 people medical assistance, and designated 94,000 people as entitled to subsistence allowances. Its workforce last year stood at 1.2534 million employees, with 711,100 incumbent workers, and 85,700 new employees in the labor force. The urban unemployment rate at the end of 2013 was 2.55%.
Comprehensively develop social undertakings. The XPCC has established a complete education system from preschool through to university, implementing basic nine-year compulsory education and eliminating illiteracy among young and middle-aged people. By 2013 this included seven institutions of higher learning, 24 secondary vocational schools, 243 middle schools, and 55 primary schools enrolling 481,300 students of all ethnic groups. The XPCC has made constant progress in science and technology undertakings. It now has 18 science and technology research institutions, such as the academy of land reclamation sciences, employing a total of 120,000 technical staff of various backgrounds. It has also built 14 key labs in different fields, 40 technical centers for enterprises, and 24 engineering research centers. The XPCC has speeded up construction of a public cultural service system, having built a group of cultural facilities that include theaters, cultural centers, museums, memorial halls, libraries, and cultural squares. There are eight professional theater troupes, hundreds of amateur theater troupes, 66 websites, and 197 radio and television broadcasting agencies with coverage rates of 97% and 98.8% respectively. There are also 35 newspapers and magazines, and more than 100 titles of culture-related books are published annually. The XPCC has moreover constantly increased input into public health, having built a relatively complete public health service system to help improve the comprehensive conditions of workers' healthcare. To date, there are 1,348 health agencies employing 24,800 medical workers, with an average 3.18 practicing (assistant) doctors, 3.89 registered nurses, and 10 hospital beds for every thousand people. In 2013 the mortality rate was 4.94 per thousand, the infant mortality rate 7.56 per thousand, and the average life expectancy was 76.79 years.