Abstract

One of the most significant challenges today for Governments around the world is to ensure the availability of employment, in conditions of decent work, to every member of the working-age population who seeks it. Nowhere is this challenge greater in scope, diversity and intensity than in the People’s Republic of China. At the same time, as the country’s economy grows rapidly and adjusts to the demands of the global market place, the system of social security for China’s 700 million workers has also entered an ongoing period of transformation. Over the last decade, the evolution of China’s enterprise system towards a recognizable market economy has been mirrored quite naturally in a transformation of its social security provisions from an enterprise-based system of social support to one following the principles of public social insurance.

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