Citizens have their say on new social security system

More extensive, less costly and fewer restrictions - these are the calls from the public for the draft law on social insurance, which is expected to revamp China's social welfare system.

Nearly 70,000 comments and proposals have filled up the website of the National People's Congress (NPC), the nation's top legislature, during a two-month public hearing for the hotly debated issue that ended on Sunday.

With the financial crisis continuing to take its toll on the job market, considerations of the law have grown more immediate for laid-off workers and unemployed college graduates, many reviewers wrote on the NPC website.