Abstract:

This paper attempts to introduce current explorations of endowment insurance for farmer migrant workers in a few cities, to comment on some pattern s such as "Shenzhen Special Area Pattern", "Shanghai Pattern" and "Beijing Pa ttern" about their advantages and disadvantages, to put forward a goal-pattern and a transitional plan of basic endowment insurance for migrant workers in urban Chin a, and to suggest that the transitional plan should be carried out compulsorily all over urban China in the national eleventh five-year program.

Key words: urban China, migrant worker, endowment insurance