China''''s Impoverished Population Down to 30 Million

China'impoverished population dropped from 250 million in 1978 to 30 million in 2000, according to a white paper published by the State Council Information Office in October 2001. That number represents 3% of the total rural population. The Chinese government in the 1980s had set a goal of clothing and feeding the rural poor by the end of the century. That goal has been met. This was the result of a systematic effort to alleviate poverty. In view of the fact that the impoverishe…     

Say Goodbye to Public Medical Care

Starting May this year, public servants in Beijing will say goodbye to the public medical care system that has been in effect for decades and participate in the basic medical insurance system currently implemented in enterprises. The reform program for central government institutions has already been worked out and the specific rules for enforcement are waiting for approval from the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Labor and Social Security. An Interim Method for Medical Subsidy for P…     

A Comparative Analysis of the Fertility of the Urban and Rural in China Since 2000

The different in the fertility of the rural and urban and future changing trend are very important questions to understand China’s population problem. This paper calculates the fertility of the urban and the rural since 2000 based on the statistical data and compares the fertility rate in the urban and the rural population since 2000. The finding shows that the TFR in the rural is less than 1.8 while the TFR in the urban is less than 1.3 and the difference is narrowing year by year. The fertility difference is mainly caused by the second child, generally speaking the second child fertility tend to increasing slightly while the first child fertility shows dramatic fluctuations because of the Chinese folk culture, the fertility fluctuation in the rural is much dramatic than that in the urban. The mean age at childbearing (MAC) has been delaying in both the rural and the urban areas in the decade.     

The Analysis on the Potential and Trend of the Non-agricultural Transfer of Chinese Rural Labor in the Following 20 Years

The non-agriculturalization of rural labors,which has caught much research attention,is an ecessary phenomenonin the process of urbanization. However, conflicts exsitson some basic issues due to the disagreement on the concept and data of the rural non-agricultural labor force,and there is alack of systemic and quantitative research on the potentials of rural labor’s non-agricultural transfer in the future. By predicting the changing trend of future rural labor force, the demand for agricultural labors, and the trend of rural labor’s non-agricultural transfer, this paper estimated the potentials of Chinese rural labor’s non-agricultural transfer in the next 20 years. It found that the surplus labors in the countryside will decrease annually, and its total number will range between 100 million and 250 million by 2030. Although there is still some increase potential of the stock of rural labor’s non-agricultural transfer in the near future, its increase will approach to zero in 10 years, and rural transferrable surplus labor will also approach to zero in about 5 to 10 years.     

Mixed Reaction to Proposed Dual Standards for Birth Control

A recent proposal put forward by deputies to the Peoples Congress of Jiangsu Province in southeast China has prompted a public outcry. This proposal sought to give citizens with higher education permission to have a second child while at the same time strengthening birth control measures for poorly educated peasants. The proposal was tabled by members of the Standing Committee of Jiangsu Provincial Peoples Congress, the local legislature, during the drafting of a local set of regulations …     

Lighting the Pathway to Adulthood Experience of a teacher from a rural primary school

The Model Primary School is a rural school located in a region joining the town and country in Jiamusi City,Heilongjiang Province.Sex education is a new idea and has never been taught there before. Two years ago,I had my first experience teaching a sex education class.During the first class,I blushed with embarrassment and found it difficult to talk about     

How to make life better in the City？——Sidelights about Ningbo＇s innovation in citizenship service and management of the floating population

Cities are the crystallization of human civilization."The lstanbul Declaration on Human Settlements"launched in 1996 by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme stressed,"Our cities must be places where human beings lead fulfilling lives in dignity,good health,safety, happiness and hope."The theme"Better city,Better life"of World Expo 2010 Shanghai China is even more seductive and is what people are longing for. With the dream of"Better life",millions of Chinese farm workers decided to leave their homeland,rushing to the cities,which has formed the world’s largest population movement today.     

The Difference of Urban and Rural Ageing and Its Transition

In the process of population ageing in China, rural population has an increasingly higher proportion of elderly than the cities;it has been widely cited as one of the characteristics of population ageing in China. This paper compared China with o~her countries and reveals that the phenomenon of higher elderly proportion in rural population than the urban is universal in the world. The research finding shows that the urban-rural inversion of population ageing will not last for a long time. With the socioeconomic development, large-scale rural-urban migration and urbanization will approach to the end;the proportion of the urban elderly will eventually exceed that in the rural. During this process, the transition of urban-rural difference of population ageing will experience four phases.     

Shanghai Launches ＂Thousand Talents Program＂ to Introduce High-Level Overseas Talents

According to Shanghai Government Network, while striving to promote the internationalization of the local talents, Shanghai municipal government has officially unveiled the ＂Suggestions by Shanghai Municipality About Implementing the Program of Introduing High-level Overseas Talents＂, with which the local ＂Thousand Talents Program＂ was started up. According to the program, the municipality will bring in a batch of high-level and urgently-needed talents from abroad within 5-10 years,     

Dynamics of Nonagricultural Transfer of Rural Labour Force in China

since the reform and opening to the outside world there has been a rapid and continuing growth of nonagricultural transfer of rural labor force in China. The existing studies on this issue are largely confined to migration or regional transfer of rural labor force. Meantime, because of the limitations of available data, there are few studies with time-series analysis. In this article, following the definition of non-agricultural transfer of rural labour force. estimation is made of the amount and its time-series changes of non-agricultural transfer of rural labour force by using data derived from common primary statistics through simple calculations, with analysis of the dynamics of non-agricultural transfer of rural labour force in the context of China＇s economic development and policy changes.     

China Reforms Household Registration System to Encourage Labor Mobility

In August, Shijiazhuang, capital city of Hebei Province in northern China, made headlines with a bold, unheard-of move: liberalizing its household registration system to allow any citizen to become a permanent resident in the city. According to public security authorities of the city, anyone can apply for permanent residence in Shijiazhuang as long as he or she has worked in the city for two years even as a cleaner even if the person is penniless, poorly educated or has no relative…     

Improving Equity and Sustainability of Social Protection System in China

The segmentation of the social protection system in China makes the system inequitable and inefficient.Employees in the public sector, particularly civil servants, are overprotected,while employees in the nonpublic sector,especially farmers and rural migrant workers,are underprotected. Segmented pension insurance system impedes labor mobility and increases administrative costs.The polices,such as implementation of the New Rural Cooperative Medical System,New Rural Old-age Insurance Scheme, as well as the polices to promote migrant workers to participate in social insurance programs for urban employees,help improve the equity of social protection. However,the competition between different local governments on increase in welfare and overburden of the local finance due to escalating social expenditures have affected the sustainability of social protection programs.The following measures need to be taken to solve such problems. First is to avoid using social insurance coverage as an indicator to evaluate the performance of government officials. Second,on the one hand, the social spending responsibilities of the central government need to increase,and on the other hand,public transfers to less development regions need to augment for enhancing social assistance and merit goods provision.Third is to reduce and remove the segmentation of social protection system through integrating or combining various segments under the same insurance program.     

上海市民将拥有家庭医生(英文)

According to People's Daily,in 2015,Shanghai will provide more options of public health services,such as implement ing the family doctor system and establishing the residents' electronic healthcare records. According to the     

How Much Do They Know about AIDS?——A Survey of AIDS Awareness among Migrants

The reform and opening up policy,which was adopted in China more than two decades ago,has largely torn down the barriers preventing rural residents from moving into cities,resulting in a rapid influx of surplus rural laborers into the cities.The fifth nat…     

About 150 Million People Exceed Diabetes Warning Value in China

The value 7.8m mol/L is the upper limit of normal blood glucose level 2 hours after meals.According to data from an epidemiological survey.there are about 150 million people in China whose blood glucose has exceeded the warning value,which is regarded as prediabetes.In the large public education campaign"postprandial glucose 7.8"for people with high risk of diabetes     

Shanghai： Women＇s Life Expectancy 81.81

The life expectancy at birth for female reached 81.81 in Shanghai in 2003, up from 81.63 in the previous year, according to a new report on the status of women and children in the city in 2003. The report was released jointly by Shanghai Women and Children‘s Committee and the Shanghai Statistics Bureau.     

South China Feels Acute Labor Shortage

The Pearl River Delta, with Guangzhou — the capital of Guangdong Province — as its nucleus, has for years been an economic powerhouse in China.Millions of surplus rural workers once flocked to the south China region to find jobs, but now the area is facing a crisis: many farmers-turned-laborers are shunning the Pearl River area and are moving instead to the Yangtze River Delta,     

Gender Perspective Enters University Education in Shanghai

The Shanghai Municipal Education Committee has recently decided to include gender education into the university curriculum, according to sources familiar with this matter. The first four courses introduced are study of gender; female psychology and career development; emotion, love and marriage; and marriage, family and economy. Starting February 2002, these courses will be first introduced in seven universities in the form of lectures and officially included in the credit system of most uni…     

How Wide Is the Income Gap in China?

Thanks to the introduction of the reform and opening up policy, China has achieved rapid economic development and recorded a significant rise in the income level of its urban and rural residents as a whole. However, the level of income varies from industry to industry, from rural to urban areas, and from region to region, and the gap is widening. Estimates show that the Gini coefficient (an economic indicator measuring disparities in personal income) in China was 0.424 in 1996, 0.456 in 1998,…     

Quantitative Analysis on the Impact of Urbanisation on Chinese Population Aging

This paper systematically studies the impact of fertility, mortality, initial age structure and rural-urban migration on population aging in rural and urban China from 2000 to 2010. The results show that urbanisation plays a crucial role in population aging in both rural and urban areas and its inf luence is closely linked to the age pattern of the migrants. One third of young rural population transformed into urban population during that period. The contribution of rural-urban migration to population aging in rural areas is 43.4 percent, which is higher than any inf luences from population’s natural changes, and is dominant in population aging in the countryside. Rural-urban migration contributes-118.0 percent to population aging in urban areas by reducing the proportion of aged population and its influence was only lower than that of the initial age structure. The impact of urbanisation on population aging in towns is relatively limited. Among factors from population’s natural changes, the inf luence of the initial age structure is higher than those from changes of mortality and fertility. The paper discusses the causes and developmental trends of impact of urbanisation on population aging between rural and urban areas, and addresses some policy recommendations to deal with socio-economic challenges.