Shenzhen Municipal Medical Insurance for Enrolled Students
To ensure students' basic medical needs, GTSI has organized application of Shenzhen Municipal Medical Insurance for currently enrolled students. The details are as follows:
1. Insurance holders
All currently enrolled students of GTSI.
2. Insurance Treatment
The medical insurance of university students covers major outpatient clinics, inpatient medical care and local community clinics. Implementation details are elaborated in the requirements for Level-II Medical Insurance in Measures for Shenzhen Social Medical Insurance.
3. Premium Payment Standards
According to Measures for Shenzhen Social Medical Insurance, the premiums for students enrolling in medical insurance are: Average monthly salary of employees in Shenzhen in the previous year × 0.8% × 12 months. Therefore, the premium payment varies from year to year and are subject to relevant annual official documents. For the 2022-2023 academic year, the premiums are CNY (Chinese Yuan) ¥1115.52. After deducting a financial subsidy of CNY ¥666 per person per year, the actual amount of premiums to be paid are CNY ¥578.52 /person.
4. Insurance Coverage Period
For students who have participate in insurance during GTSI’s unified application period, the coverage period is from September 1 of the current year through August 31 of the following year. Students are highly advised NOT to miss the unified enrollment period, as it may greatly impact their insurance benefits.
5. Insurance Enrollment Procedures
Every September, GTSI organizes unified application of Shenzhen Municipal Medical Insurance for College Students with the following procedures:
- Students fill out insurance enrollment information;
- Students make premium payments within the specified time;
- GTSI upload the information of students who have made payments to the social security information system.
- GTSI collects all payments of insurance premiums from students and forward them to the social security operating organization for payment deduction.
- After successfully enrolled in the medical insurance, students register their social security account, activate electronic certificate for medical insurance, apply for financial social security card (physical card with debit function), and bind their accounts to the designated outpatient clinic (online-only process).
6. Important Notes
General outpatient services with insurance coverage for the insured students are only available for those who seek medical treatment at designated outpatient clinics to which the students’ social security accounts are bound (please refer to step 5 of application procedures). If students receive services at outpatient clinics without having their accounts bound to them, they will not be covered by the medical insurance. Students who have access to the Internet can log in to the “personal service online system” on the website of the Shenzhen Municipal Social Security Bureau (On this platform, they can suspend their medical insurance, bind the designated medical institution/outpatient clinic to their account, and inquire about insurance enrollment information) and select a community health center in this city as their designated outpatient clinic. They can also subscribe to the WeChat public account of "Shenzhen Social Security" and select "Convenient Services" to bind their account to the designated outpatient clinic. Students who do not have access to the Internet can directly go to the nearest social health center for account binding. After binding the account, no changes can be made within one (1) month.
For more information on social security and payment, you can subscribe to these WeChat public accounts: "Shenzhen Social Security" "Shenzhen Medical Insurance" and "Shenzhen Tax Service Account", or call 12333 (Social Security Bureau) 12366 (tax services).