In September 2017, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People's Republic of China implemented a subsidy policy for the benefit enterprises and employees. According to the subsidy policy, employees with primary, intermediate and advanced-level certificates will be able to obtain a subsidy of 1000 yuan, 1500 yuan and 2000 yuan respectively if their payment of unemployment insurance is not less than 36 months and they have had the qualification certificates for no more than 12 months.

　　Yichang has taken the lead in Hubei province to launch the online technical improvement subsidy application system for the convenience of citizens. Based on the platform of "Online Job Boards", the system has integrated the databases of the public security, citizen-card information, the financial system and national and provincial occupational skill testing authorities to achieve information management in the whole process of acceptance, review, issuance and supervision.

　　When employees log in the website http://61.136.223.44/web2/src/index/index.html or the app Shimin E Jia, all information about them, like name, type of company/institution, payment records of unemployment insurance, etc., is automatically read by the system. At the same time, all the information will be compared with that from databases of national and provincial occupational skill testing authorities. It takes only four steps to submit the application for technical improvement subsidy.

　　After logging in the system, employees only need to upload attachments, such as the scanned copy of qualification certificates, the system will automatically extract relevant information of the employee for comparison. For unqualified application, the system will tell the reason. For qualified application, the system will sent a phone message informing the applicant that the application has been successfully submitted.

　　At the same time, employees can check the subsidy process at any time through the real-time query function when they log in the system. In this sense, employees can really enjoy national preferential policies without even going out.

　　Employees who apply for the technical improvement subsidy should satisfy the following two conditions:

　　1. Payment of unemployment insurance is not less than 36 months;

　　2. The length of holding the primary, intermediate and advanced-level certificate is no more than 12 months.

　　There are 81 national vocational qualifications. Employees of different professions and at different levels can apply for the subsidy.

　　The four steps of online application:

　　First step: Log in the website http://61.136.223.44/web2/src/index/index.html or the app Shimin E Jia.

　　Second step: Fill in information of vocational qualification and verify it.

　　Third step: Upload attachments, such as the scanned copy of vocational qualification certificate.

　　Fourth step: Confirm and submit for review.

　　13 core businesses of public employment services can be addressed online

　　13 core businesses of public employment services can be addressed online at home, namely employment registration, unemployment registration, declaration of the Employment and Self-Employment Certificate, application for the subsidy of stabile positions, application for employment interruption certificate, claim of unemployment insurance benefits, review and issuance of unemployment insurance benefits, training registration, application for opening a training class, training subsidy, management of training institutions and supervision of training.