By the end of March, China had 1.48 million insurance sales people, with 1.3 million selling life insurance policy and 153,000 selling property insurance policy. Some 80 percent of them own certificates, 2.81 percent higher than the beginning of the year.

Since 1992, these sales people have played an important role in the insurance sales market. In the first three months of this year, the premium achieved by the sales people reached 65.3 billion yuan (8.1 billion U.S. dollars), up 28 percent and accounting for 40.8 percent of the total national premium.

Source: Xinhua