Urban and town enterprises and public institutions, and their employees shall pay unemployment insurance contributions. Social organizations and their full-time staff, private non-enterprise entities and their employees, and urban and town individual businesses with employees and their employees may participate in unemployment insurance in accordance with local regulations. Employers contribute 2 percent of its total wages to unemployment insurance, while employees contribute 1 percent of their personal wages. Since 2015, China has continued to implement the policy of temporarily reduced contribution rate of one percent for unemployment insurance, which will remain in effect until December 31, 2025.