The urban enterprises, administrations, non-business institutions, social groups, private non-business institutions, the official branches of central government and other provinces in Shanghai, as well as their employees, should participate in the Basic Medical Insurance for Urban Employees.

The above-mentioned groups include:

(1) Currently employed personnel, retired personnel and off-duty personnel that receive a basic monthly income as required;

(2) level-B2 injured or disabled veterans that stay in their hometown or an honorable military house with a long-term pension;

(3) retirees that get a pension from the Civil Administration, and

(4) retirees working in the army without military status and the retired military employees that returned to Shanghai.

The groups not included are:

(1) Those who have had their land confiscated;

(2) workers who have been laid-off and sent back to their hometown;

(3) foreigners, and

(4) residents of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.