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Elderly
project starts new stage 06/11/2003
The third and final stage of China's Starlight Project was launched
yesterday to help rural elderly people.
Inject
funds into ailing health system 04/15/2003
Poor medical services stand in the way of many farmers' pursuit
of a better life, an Outlook Weekly article warns.
Minister
promises better safety net for the poor 03/17/2003
Civil Affairs Minister Doji Cering has stressed the urgency of ensuring
basic living standards for the nation's impoverished, pledging ongoing
assistance for the poor.
Social
safety net takes shape 03/10/2003
A social security network is gradually taking shape as China's market-oriented
economic reform advances.
Premier
calls for improvements in employment, social security 03/05/2003
Premier Zhu Rongji, in his government work report to the First Session
of the 10th National People's Congress on March 5, called for further
efforts to improve the work of job creation and social security,
emphasizing that governments at all levels should take it as a major
duty.
Migrant
workers set to get better deal on employment
01/23/2003
A landmark State Council decree is expected to help rural
migrant workers substantially, an official said yesterday.
Poor
patients ride express train to better vision 01/08/2003
Both domestic and overseas donations are being sought to fund the
"Lifeline Express" medical-service train to help poverty-stricken
cataracts patients in China, a newsletter said yesterday.
More
Chinese benefit from social security systems 12/25/2002
More Chinese are covered by the country's developing social security
system, according to statistics released by China's Ministry of
Labor and Social Security in Beijing Wednesday.
Handicapped
orphan under care 09/18/2002
Professor from the Medical
center attached to the US Stanford University takes a check before
surgery for a Chinese handicapped boy from a welfare house at Tianjin
City Hospital Sep. 17, 2002.
First
Tibetan store for the handicapped opens 09/
04/2002
Handicapped persons in Tibet have seen the end of the days when
they had to have aids brought in from elsewhere in China.
All
handicapped Chinese to enjoy rehabilitative services by 2015
08/30/2002
Deng Pufang, chairman of the China Disabled Persons' Federation
(CDPF), announced Thursday that the government has set a goal to
enable all the handicapped to enjoy rehabilitative services by the
year 2015.
China's
1st college for disabled marks 15th anniversary 08/
22/2002
China's first college for the disabled, the Institute of Special
Education at Changchun University, celebrated its 15th anniversary
on Wednesday.
China's
top lawmaker underlines children's education, welfare 08/
06/2002
China's top legislator Li Peng on Monday stressed the importance
of children's education and called for still greater efforts to
promote the welfare of the country's future generations.
Hewitt
to help welfare reform in Liaoning 07/17/2002
Hewitt Associates, a US-based outsourcing and consulting firm, has
been selected by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to assist in a
social security reform pilot program in Northeast China's Liaoning
Province.
Int'l
experts concerns the elderly 07/11/2002
The population of the elderly in China has reached 130 million,
and is expected to surpass 200 million by 2015, about 14 per cent
of the country's total, said Li Baoku, vice-minister of Civil Affairs.
Reform
critical for rural residents 07/01/2002
Problems of the rural economy, which is centred on the slowing of
increases in farmer incomes, can find their roots in the national
economy. Without proper macroeconomic reforms, the issues will not
be effectively dealt with.
Doji
Cering: Elderly's quality of life to improve06/28/2002
A senior civil affairs official yesterday said that more efforts
will be taken to improve the quality of life the country's 130 million
elderly citizens, a figure greater than that for any other country
in the world.
Promote
social security reforms 05/13/2002
China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) will help
boost its social security reform.
Operation
model of social security fund takes shape in China 05/09/2002
After several years of reform, China has set up the operational
model of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF), which serves
as a supplement, adjustment tool and reserve to support social security
expenditures.
China
to renovate first 'workers' village' in Shenyang 05/02/2002
China has launched a massive program this month to renovate its
earliest "workers' village"-- a residential community
for workers - in an effort to improve workers' poor living conditions
in Shenyang City, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province.
Labourers
enjoying better protection of rights 04/30/2002
China has enjoyed overall stability in employment despite the fact
that the country faces intense pressure in this regard due to its
huge population, abundant labour resources and economic restructuring,
according to the Information Office of the State Council in a white
paper entitled "Labour and Social Security in China."
China
issues white paper on labor, social security 04/29/2002
The Information Office of the State Council issued Monday a white
paper entitled "Labor and Social Security in China".
Pilot
social security programme takes off in Northeast Province 03/19/2002
The country's burgeoning social security system is being tested
in Shenyang to hundreds of thousands of people who have retired
or been laid-off. The city has also set up a basic network in social
security management and service extending to residential districts
and communities.
China
spends more on social security: minister 0306/2002
China's central government spent 98.2 billion yuan in the central
budget for social security programs in 2001, 5.18 times the figure
for 1998, Finance Minister Xiang Huaicheng said Wednesday.
Zhu
hails establishment of National Social Security Fund Council
12/19/2001
Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji has offered his congratulation on the
establishment of the National Social Security Fund Council.
Looking
after China's jobless 06/26/2001
While China endures the painful
process of developing a comprehensive unemployment insurance system,
experts have begun to question whether the insurance system will
be able to sustain the large number of expected jobless people.
Social
security reform a giant task 02/09/2001
Reform of the social security system will be speeded up this year,
affecting the elderly and those who rely on the government for medical
and employment insurance, according to an article in Beijing-based
Outlook Weekly.
Reform
urged to let all enjoy welfare 01/16/2001
China should update its endowment insurance system, extending welfare
to all its citizens instead of only urban employees, as at present,
said an article in International Finance News.
Social
security spending increases 12/15/2000
The central government has spent 45.8 billion yuan (US$5.5 billion)
on improving social security in the country so far this year, according
to the Ministry of Finance.
Social
security reform keeps pace with economic changes 10/05/2000
Social security reform during the Ninth Five Year Plan period (1996-2000)
has centred on reforming the social insurance system, in a bid to
reinforce and aid the reform of State-owned enterprises and thus
ensure social stability.
Pension
reform to increase 08/27/2000
The increasing aging population and the expanded gap between pension
fund revenue and expenditures has made China speed up its reform
of the social security system.
More
State retirees draw on socialized pension funds 08/14/2000
A total of 18.6 million retired workers received their pensions
from a socialized pension system by June, according to the latest
report released by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security.
Pension
problems probed 08/06/2000
China's pension system reform has entered a critical stage.
Rural
pensions need even hand 07/25/2000
To ensure adequate support for older people in rural areas, we need
consistent government policies across the country and good management
of pension funds.
Childcare
high on agenda 07/25/2000
Xiaoxiao had her first vaccination the day she was born. Now a healthy
11-year-old, she is, like millions of others, a beneficiary of China's
immunization programme.
Elderly
people in rural areas need help 06/28/2000
As economic reforms continue and bank interest rates decrease, the
number of farmers joining the national rural pension plan is declining
and the operation of the pension fund has become more difficult,
said a recent article in the China Economic Times.
Developing
the west requires more health care facilities 06/15/2000
As China develops its western regions, China should change its medical
and health care policy to better serve farmers, the majority of
the population in the west.
China's
pension fund needs overhaul 06/14/2000
As the world's most populous country grows older, China must estab-
lish an efficient management system to operate its pension fund,
urged a recent article in the International Finance Daily.
Disabled
children receive care 05/24/2000
CHANGSHA: Hare-lipped girl, Song Xiuliang from Huihua, Hunan Province,
has become the first beneficiary of the China Love Outreach, a programme
designed to help handicapped children in poor areas.
Nation's
poor slip through safety nets 05/11/2000
China should establish a systematic mechanism to fulfil the poverty-re
lief task at the beginning of the 21st century, urged a recent article
in Beijing-based Outlook weekly.
Pension
funds needed 04/16/2000
China could raise billions of yuan by liquidating some State assets
to finance its huge shortfall in pension funding.
Pension
problem shadows nation 04/08/2000
China will likely confront a huge shortfall in pension funds that
could undermine its pension system when its elderly population is
expected to peak in 30 years.
Poverty
alleviation successful 01/24/2000
China is expected to fulfil its commitment to helping 80 million
poor people escape poverty by the end of a seven-year period that
will end with the close of 2000.
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