The Elderly Care Issues in Rural China and Countermeasures

According to the different elderly care-givers,we divided elderly care into five models.They are relative-care-giver model,friend- care-giver model,volunteer-care-giver model,market-supply-care model and welfare model.With analysis of the sample survey about elderly care in rural Hubei Province,we find that there are some serious problems about daily care for the old people,such as single elderly care model,a huge gap of demand and supply of daily care for old people, and deteriorating elderly care problem. The causes of the problems are the weakening of family support for the old,the insufficient of welfare model and market-supply-care model. To solve the problems,the formal support for the old people should be increased,and the function of market should be strengthened. At the same time,family support should continue to play an important role in the elderly care.     

Dalian,Liaoning:Pioneering in Establishing a New Work Mechanism for Population and Family Planning

In line with the requirements of the National Population and Family Planning Commission to reform the existing population and family planning system,in recent years,Dalian has focused on realizing the public functions of the family planning system and the“people first”notion in order to set up a new population and family planning work mechanism.Thanks to their efforts,the population and family planning work in Dalian has made a great leap forward.     

Statistical Communiqu6 on Health Care and Family Planning Development in China, 2012

In 2012, in accordance with the decisions and plans of the Party .Central Committee and the StateCouncil, health and family planning departments at all levels had accelerated the establishment and improvement of national medical insurance system, reinforced and improved the basic drug system and the new operational mechanism for grass-roots; orderly promoted reform on public hospitals and made efforts to improve medical and health services; put forth efforts to strengthen the prevention and control of major diseases and food safety monitoring, and made solid progress in promoting family planning. The health and family planning undertakings had developed steadily.     

Migration and Living Apart in China: Economic Rationality vs. Institutional Barriers

While there is a tendency that family members of migrants reunite in receiving societies, a good proportion of family members lives apart in the process of large-scale internal migration in China. This paper, by focusing on nuclear families of married migrants, explores the latest status, patterns and associates of living apart by making reference to the constraints of public policies and structural constraints in receiving societies. Findings from nationally representative data reveal that, Hukou institution and structural barriers in receiving cities prevent migrants from being reunited. Exclusion is more salient among migrants with their Hukou outside receiving province, moving to coastal or western cities. These suggest that, whilst economic development(e.g., east area) does not necessarily bring about more inclusive public policies, low development level(e.g., west area) is less attractive to migrants and their family. Although the crosssectional character of the data does not enable us to draw definite conclusion that the effect on living apart of institutional and structural factors overweighs that of economic rationality, this paper directly illustrates the way their importance could be assessed.     

The Impact of Family Floating on the Employment Status of Floating Population and Their Family Members

Using the survey data collected by Center for Population and Development of Renmin University of China in 2009 at Chaoyang district of Beijing, Dongguan city of Guangdong province and Zhuji city of Zhejiang province, this paper analyzes the impact of family floating on employment status of floating population and their family members. This paper finds that family floating not only affects men but also women, and family floating has a greater impact on women. The likelyhood of employment and work time of men are affected by family floating, so do the likelyhood of employment and income of women.     

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     

Analysis on Factors Affecting Decision-making of Migrant Population in Large Cities of China

In this paper, based on survey data of four cities,migrant population in 2008, we use multi-level Logit model to analyze the factors of individual and areas of destination which have impact on migration behavior of migrant population in large cities.We find that there are large changes in the behavior of migrants:Firstly,the rise in the proportion of migrant citizens has led to the effects of gender, marital status and household type and other factors on the probability of migration are not significant,and the migration is appearing to base on the family unit;Secondly,due to the discrimination against migrants in employment and wage income, and the upgrade of industrial structure,the attractiveness of the increasing jobs to the migrant population has declined, and migrants,expected income is detaching from the income level of urban residents;Thirdly,the growth of urban ladors,average wage has extrusion effect on the employment of the migrant labors in the informal sector, which reduces the probability of potential migrant population.     

Survey to Assess Implementation of Women＇s Law

The Law on the Protection of the Rights andInterests of Women of the People‘s Republicof China is the first of its kind in China to focus on women and protection of their legal right sand interests. As of the year 2002, the Law had been put into effect for ten years. In order to understand     

Major Challenges for China＇s Floating Population and Policy Suggestions： An Analysis of the 2010 Population Census Data

This study analyzes the trends and current characteristics of floating population in China and the major challenges they arc facing, on the basis of the latest population census data. The research shows that the size of floating population has increased continuously and rapidly, their mobility intensity is weakening, migration destinations are beginning to decentralize, majority of the migrants are moving with their spouses and more and more of them are taking their young children with them, the new-generation floaters whom wereborn after 1980 account for more than half of the entire floating population. The floaters are facing challenges such as unemployment, lack of social security, inequality in children＇s education, and barriers in social integration. This article proposes corresponding suggestions. The problem of new-generation floaters and floating children should be addressed adequately, and there is an urgent need to accelerate the establishment of social security for migrants.     

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.     

China＇s Information Technology Level Equals That of the Moderately Developed Countries in General

According to Xinhua News, as of the end of 2009, the actual permanent population of Beijing had reached 19.72 million, including the household population of 12.46 million and the floating population of 7.264 million living in the city for more than half a year. Immnigration of the whole family had been seen annual increases, taking a proportion of 41.2%. The rapid population growth had brought stresses to Beijing on its water resources, energy consumption, transportation as well as such problems as shortage of food,     

Population Security Issues to Be Addressed

Despite a low fertility, China still has to address a series of problems in terms of population and development, according to Zhang Weiqing, Minister of the National Population and Family Planning Commission. These problems include uneven development of family planning between regions and serious imbalances between population, economy, society, resources and environment. Zhang made the remark at a national conference on population and family planning. Specifically, these problems are refl…     

Active Aging An Introduction to the "Silver Age" Action

About 3.5 million retired senior intellectuals in China with intermediate-or high-level technical professional titles are healthy and willing to make their contributions to the society. To make use of these talents,the National Committee on Aging, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and Technology     

Five Changes Emerge from Chinese Families

正Official from National Health and Family Planning Commission(NHFPC)of China said on December 3,2013in Berlin that,economic and social development and population structure adjustment had led to prominent changes to the size,structure,form and function of Chinese families,so family development was facing certain challenges.     

统筹解决人口问题促进人口长期均衡发展(英文)

On September 25, 1980, the CPC Central Committee issued ＂An Open Letter to All CPC Members and All Members of China Communist Youth League on the issue of Controlling Population Growth＂. The ＂Open Letter＂ is a milestone in the history of population and family planning in China, as it encouraged that one couple had one child in the 30 to 40 years that followed. To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the ＂Open Letter＂,     

National Health and Family Planning Commission will Conduct Tracking Survey on Population Structure of 30,000 Families with Liaoning as the Pilot

While the society is discussing the ＂two-child policy＂ passionately, thegovernment say they are initiating a large number of researches and surveys. Currently, a training workshop on map sampling and tracking survey on Chinese family development is condt, cted in Dalian City. It marks the start of the pilot of a large-scale tracking survey on family development in China.     

SFPC and UNFPA Heads Meet in Beijing

On December 13, 2001, Zhang Weiqing, Minister of the State Family Planning Commission of China met with visiting UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Obaid. Both sides exchanged views in a candid atmosphere on the fifth phase of their cooperation in the population and family planning field. This was Obaid抯 first visit to China since she took office in January. Zhang asked her to convey his greetings to Dr. Nafis Sadik, former Executive Director of the UNFPA who just won the Chi…     

Support for the Elderly under the Market Transition in China

Modernization theory predicts loosening family ties and the gradual decline of family supports for the elderly. In a transitional economy,we argue that the rapidly growing income for adult children helps to maintain family supports for the elderly at a high level.Data from 2005 China’s 1%population survey shows that half of elderly people in towns or rural areas relied on family supports as the main source for living.The odds-ratio from Logistic regression shows that family supports were far greater for females than males and far greater for rural than for urban residents.Labor migration by a rural household member greatly enhanced the odds of family supports for the elderly in rural areas.In the cities,we found that the odds of family supports were the highest in the well-developed regions along the coast.As the population is rapidly aging, more government efforts are needed to expand socialized supports for the elderly, especially to the weakest.     

Children ＂Visiting Home Often＂ is Written into the Law and Becomes Effective on July 1,2013

The newly revised Law on Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly will beeffective starting from July 1, 2013. It states that family members should care for and look after the elderly spiritually, and any neglect is forbidden. Family members who live apart from their elderly should regularly visit and greet them. It is also interpreted by media as ＂writing ＇visiting home often＇ into the law＂. It will become illegal if children do not visit their elderly ot~en. The new law also requires employers to guarantee their employees＇ rights to home leave in accordance with relevant regulations of the country.     

Literature Review on Population and Childbirth Research in China in 2006

In China, the total fertility rate has remained at a low level since the 1990s. The evaluation, causes and impacts of this low fertility rate is an important research area. In 2006, research on population and childbirth behaviour in China concentrated on estimation of the current fertility rate and on future family planning policies; attention was also given to a new childbirth culture.