内容简介

The social security system in China is changing with the change of its economic system, which differs from that of many other market economies. During the decades between the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 and 1978, when China adopted the reform and opening-up policies, the country practiced a social security policy corresponding to its planned economy system, providing social security services to its people as best as it could. But since the establishment of the socialist market economy system in the mid-1980s, a series of reforms have been introduced to change the old social security system, and a basic framework for a new social security system has been set up corresponding to the socialist market economy system, with the central and local governments sharing different levels of responsibility.