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2011.
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| Summary/Abstract |
This article summarises what is known and not known about the reform and reconstruction of China's social security system and the related social welfare programmes, the policy options debated in both official and academic circles, and recommendations for new options for social system reform to be considered in the 12th Five-Year Programme. The term "social security" here refers to social insurance and social welfare (relief) programmes such as free education and housing subsidies. Also discussed here are the strategic objectives of social security, why China currently needs a genuine social security system, the major problems of the current social security system and the policy debates concerning the establishment of the new system over the next five or ten years.
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