Authors of the paper described the ongoing reform on public hospitals′ endowment insurance system, and analyzed five existing problems to work on in the pension reform at public hospitals, namely the insured pensioners, funding sources, payment base, the circulation of the accounts, and occupational pension.Based on the above, the paper put forward the following recommendations, namely greater coverage of the insured, advancement in occupational pension mechanism in institutions, appropriate government subsidy mechanism, better endowment coordination levels, better fund management of endowment insurance and occupational pension, reasonable payment base, and better convergence between the endowment accounts circulation of both pensioners within the system and those beyond.These policy recommendations aim at enabling smooth transition of the endowment insurance reform for staff of public hospitals.

Public hospital; Staff; Endowment insurance; Reform; Occupational pension