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China has achieved remarkable economic growth and development over the last four decades, but it has so far failed to create a comprehensive social welfare system that can protect and support workers in old age and ill-health and provide relief in times of economic distress. As China enters the (…)
In July 2011, China enacted the ground-breaking Social Insurance Law. It was designed to provide workers with a comprehensive social welfare safety net during their retirement and at times of ill-health. A decade later, it is clear that the law has failed to achieve its goal.
As we show in (…)
, by KUO Lily
Protest groups want to know how hundreds of thousands of faulty vaccines came to be used
On Sunday, Mo Li, 27, was browsing Weibo when she saw the news: 250,000 defective vaccines had been administered to children in the province where she and her husband are raising their only child.
“It (…)
, by LI Jingyi
The Bureau of Civil Affairs in Shenzhen has released a policy draft on social work to solicit public opinions. Titled “Several Measures for Facilitating the Development of Social Work (Consultation Paper)” , the draft has proposed concrete solutions to the problems that exist in the development of social work in Shenzhen.
Back in 2007, Shenzhen was the first city in China that set forth a series of documents to help train social work talents and advance the development of social (...)
, by China Development Brief, CHOW Julian Chun-Chung
In this wide-ranging interview, Prof. Chow discusses the development of the social work sector, the trend towards state contracting of social work to NGOs, and how the NGO sector can best help deal with the issues of left-behind children and reverse migration..
This interview was conducted by CDB on the 30th of November, in the context of the World Philanthropy Forum in Beijing, to which Professor Chow was invited as a speaker. (...)
, by O’NEILL Mark
An ambitious plan to bring quality care to China runs into trouble
Wang Yung-ching, Taiwan’s richest man built a hospital dedicated to his father, who died of an undiagnosed stomach illness. Now Chang Gung has become one of the biggest private hospital groups on the island, serving 27,000 (…)
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