The Respecting Elderly Volunteer Fund Plans to Train 10 Millions Volunteers in 3 Years

According to People’s Daily Online,recently, China Aging Development Foundation has started the Respecting Elderly Volunteer Fund.Its managing committee has the mission of"filial piety all over the world and establishment of social harmony together"Its main duty is to support the volunteer’s service activities.They plan to train 10 million volunteers for free in three years.They will build a well-organized     

Bulletin of China’s Marine Environmental Status of China for the year of 2010

In accordance with the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Marine Environmental Protection and the mandate entrusted by the State Council,the State Oceanic Administration of China(SOA) organized and conducted marine environmental surveillance,monitoring and assessment for the sea areas under China’s jurisdiction in 2010 with a view to knowing well the overall environmental status of the sea areas, safeguarding the social and public security,promoting the transformation of economic development patterns in the coastal areas and effectively serving the sustainable development of marine economy.Based on the results of the surveillance,monitoring and assessment,the"Bulletin of China’s Environmental Status for the Year of 2010"has been prepared and is now issued.     

The Launching Ceremony of Health Project of Cancer Screening forProject by China's Poverty Alleviation in China Was Held in Beijing

According to People’s Daily, sponsored by China Association of Poverty Alleviation and Development and hosted by the Poverty Alleviation of China magazine,the Launching Ceremony of the Health Project of Cancer Screening for Program of China’ s Health and Poverty AlleviationRelief Project and& the Donation Ceremony of the First Batch     

On Incorporating China’s Time Bank for Old-Age Service

Based on domestic and international researches, this paper points out time banking will enable the nation to accelerate the nation’s social service for elder people. Its pattern of service exchange suits China’s low-cost strategy of dealing with the population aging; It is also in accordance with our attempt of multi-level old-age service system; And it is in favor of our construction of spiritual civilization. Hence, it is necessary for the state government to provide the related policies, to promote the system construction from high level to low level, and to finally realize the whole country’s system framework and the mutual information exchange.     

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.     

Survey to Assess Implementation of Women''''s Law

The Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Women of the People’s Republic of China is the first of its kind in China tofocus on women and protection of their legal rightsand interests.As of the year 2002,the Law had beenput into effect for ten years.In order to understand     

China Plans to Set December 4th As National Constitution Day

正The 11th Session of the Standing Committee of the Twelfth National People’s Congress deliberated and adopted the Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on Setting National Constitution Day(Draft)on the morning of October 27,2014.According to the Draft,China plans to set December 4th every year as National Constitution Day.On December 4,1982,the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China,the current constitution,was adopted at the 5th Session of the Fifth     

The Generality and Particularity of Labor Migration in China

Labor migration among regions and between the urban-rural has been a popular research topic in labor economics,development economics, industrial economics and regional economics.The world economy development history proves that such labor migration is inevitable economic phenomenon in the process of economic development.However,there are some keys to better understand China’s labor migration,such as what are the characteristics of China’s labor migration? What differences are there in China’s labor migration compared with that of the development countries and other developing countries? What are the connotational and theoretical implications of China’s labor migration? These are the core questions of this paper.Understanding these questions will patch up the shortages in the existing researches of the field,lay solid foundation and provide valuable reference for the economic effects, the welfare effects of China’s labor migration and associated institutional arrangements and macroeconomic policies.     

The Number of Individual Industrial and Commercial Households Reached 39.847 Million

According to People’s Daily, statistics from State Administration for Industry and Commerce show that the number of individual industrial and commercial households, by the end of September 2012, reached 39.847 million, with 84.547 million employees; and the number of private enterprises 10.5983 million, with 110 million employees. From 2007 to present, the number of individual industrial and commercial     

Residents’ Happiness Index Directs Policies Reflected in The Twelfth Five-year Plan of Different Provinces

This year is the first year of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan period. National People’s Conference(NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference(CPPCC) have taken place in different provinces since January.In these conferences,briefly summarized,"Happiness"becomes a hot word. To enhance the happiness index, to develop properly according to people’s livelihood,and to share the fruits of development with the people have become the common consensus.Beijing advocates,"     

National Floating Population Reached 200 Million,Equalization of Family Planning Public Services in 49 Pilot Cities

The main characters of today’s floating population have changed. Following the progress of urbanization,China is experiencing the greatest migration of floating population in history. By 2010,the floating population had reached 221 million,and the Post- 80s generation became the majority.How to promote social integration for the floating population turned to be an issue needed to be considered. On 28 Februaryist March,National Population and Family Planning Commission held the meeting of"strengthening and innovating in service ma-     

China’s Urban Population Exceeding Half: Challenges and Responses

China’s urban population exceeded rural population for the first time in Chinese history,reaching 51.27% in 2011.However,the level of urbanization has been exaggerated.If deducting the landless peasants under forced urbanization and migrant workers being not treated equally in the cities,China’ s actual urbanization level stood at 41.6% .There are challenges ahead.For example,an urban social value system has not been established in our society; we don’ t have a clear understanding of the role of cities and how to develop a city; urban management has not prepared well for urbanization development; and there is a long way to go in achieving equal treatment for all of the Urban residents.To cope with the challenges of urbanization,we need to improve the quality of urbanization,correctly understand the role of urbanization and its substance,follow the law of the urban development,and to explore building of an urban culture system.     

Shaanxi Province Unveils Policies to Achieve Full Coverage of Old-Age Insurance System for Its Residents

According to Shaanxi Daily, to achieve the full coverage of social endowment insurance for the urban and rural residents, Shaanxi provincial government issued a mandate entitled ＂Guidance on Pilot Programs of the Social Endowment Insurance for Urban Residents＂. According to the Guidance, urban and rural residents may participate in appropriate pension insurance as required. As a result, all urban and rural residents will be taken good care of in their old age.     

Partial Information on Population Aging in China in 2009

Major Population Data of China in 2009
According to the Statistical Communiqu4 of the People＇s Republic of China on the 2009 National Economic and Social Development issued by National Statistics Bureau on February 25, 2010, at the end of 2009,     

Work Hard and Forge Ahead to Further Promote the Prosperity of Population Science——Summary of the 8th Congress & 2014 Annual Meeting of China Population Association

正On 1and 2 September 2014,China Population Association grandly convened the 8th Congress2014Annual Meeting of China Population Association in Beijing and smoothly completed the re-election of its executive council.The annual meeting of China Population Association has been a great communication event held once every year for the academia.In regard to the new conditions,patterns and features of China’s population,economic and social development,demographers     

Street Children in Urban China:A Baseline Survey

Background According to Macarov, children抯 welfare conditions refer to the social environment and institutional arrangements ensuring the physical, psychological, intellectual and ethical well-being of children and best represents the social and economic development levels of a nation (Macarov, 1995). On November 20, 1989, the United Nations adopted the International Convention on Children抯 Rights, explicitly stating that all children are entitled to the right of subsistence, the right of…     

Comprehensively Promote Reform and Development of Population and Family Planning Undertakings

At the beginning of the new year, the Leading Party Members’ Group of National Population and Family Planning Commission (NPFPC) published an article in People’s Daily on January 14, 2013. It indicated that NPFPC would remain highly consistent with the "grand blueprint of building a well-off society in an all-around way and accelerating the development of socialist modernization". They would earnestly study the spirit and profound contents of the Eighteenth National Congress of the Party through various forms, follow the mindset of the Congress and actively explore new ideas and measures to promote the scientific development of population and family planning undertakings.     

Haikou City Launches Its First Day-Care Service for the Elderly

According to the Overseas Edition of People’s Daily,Haikou City of Hainan Province,while adding 27 pilot projects of the elderly home care service,has launched its first day-care service for the elderly.     

Standardized Medical Institutions Account for 70%at Grassroots Level in China

According to People’s Daily,70% of the areas in China have possessed standardized medical institutions at county,town/township and community levels.All the places have provided about 2 million person-times on-job training for the grassroots medical institutions.As a result,the conditions of medical care at the grassroots leve have been obviously improved. In 2011,more than half of the     

Qinghai Promulgated Regulation on the Protection of Minors to Improve Protection Measures for Minors

According to Gov.cn,Qinghai officially imposed "Regulation of Qinghai Province on the Protection of Minors".The new local regulation responds to the situation of the province with special features of the province,concerns about selfprotection of minors and further clarifies the joint consultation system in major events about the protection of minors. In 1992,Qinghai Province formulated the province’s implementation measure according to the "Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Protection of