Social security

Beijing’s fresh imperative to “invest in people” – first raised in a proposal for the 15th five-year plan and reaffirmed…

China should add a quantitative target for consumption growth as part of its long-term modernisation goals to help sustain growth…

Lu Feng is a professor of economics and a former deputy dean at Peking University’s National School of Development. In…

During the preparatory period for China’s next five-year plan, President Xi Jinping stressed the country needed to stick to its…

Increased scrutiny of businesses in China that evade their social insurance obligations looks set to further boost the employment of…

As a fierce price war threatens to turn their revenues microscopic, China’s steel firms are calling for changes to make…

Since 2022, China’s economy has been haunted by a weak recovery. Real gross domestic product (GDP) growth has fallen below…

It sounds simple – a source of income with flexible working hours. But it isn’t, as Upstream’s hero found out.…

Since the third plenum of China’s 19th Central Committee’s in 2018, economists and academics have offered advice on how Beijing…