[National Medical Insurance Administration: 69.8218 million people in flexible employment and other categories participated in employee medical insurance last year] On September 4, the State Council Information Office held a series of press conferences on the theme of "Starting the 15th Five-Year Plan". According to reports, the medical insurance department focuses on flexible employment personnel, migrant workers, and people with new employment forms. At present, most megacities have relaxed household registration restrictions for flexible employment personnel. This year, Shanghai has relaxed the household registration restrictions for registered students and young children to participate in resident medical insurance, becoming another large city to further relax the household registration restrictions for participating in the insurance. At present, insurance and payment methods for people with new employment forms have been actively explored in industries such as food delivery, express delivery, online ride-hailing, and housekeeping. Platform companies have actively assumed responsibilities and achieved certain results in reducing the payment burden of employees. Through hard work, the scale of medical insurance coverage for employees with flexible employment continues to increase. In 2024, the number of people covered by basic medical insurance nationwide will be 1.327 billion, and the number of people covered by employee medical insurance will be 379 million. Among them, 66.1591 million people including flexible employment and other people participated in employee medical insurance. In 2025, the number of people covered by basic medical insurance nationwide will increase to 1.331 billion, and 69.8218 million people including flexible employment and other people will participate in employee medical insurance, a year-on-year increase of 5.54%.