Retirement Age to Rise; Job Growth Expected to Slow
With China’s pension fund facing mounting pressure as its population continues to...
Mar 10, 2015
With China’s pension fund facing mounting pressure as its population continues to...
Nov 21, 2014
Despite a lack of organized unions in China, 8,000 teachers in Zhaodong, Heilongjiang organized a...
Jun 16, 2014
Caixin’s Lan Fang describes the predicament of China’s first generation of migrant...
Dec 12, 2013
With an easing of China’s one-child policy in the works, many observers are reflecting on...
Nov 21, 2013
A planned relaxation of the one-child policy has been among the most widely discussed aspects of...
Aug 21, 2013
Harvard lecturer and Brookings fellow Robert C. Pozen is the author of a recent policy paper...
Aug 10, 2012
The Economist details the challenges facing China’s pension system, which has grown considerably in the last several years but still must grapple with a number of structural inefficiencies: Unlike individual accounts in...
Jul 11, 2012
A Shaanxi local government has reached a 70,600 yuan settlement with Deng Jiyuan and Feng Jianmei, who were illegally forced to have a late-term abortion when they were unable to pay a similarly illegal 40,000 yuan...
Sep 16, 2011
The Economist notes the potentially disruptive accumulation of former Chinese leaders pulling strings from behind the scenes—and even returning to the stage: When former leaders have kept a hand in things, they have...
Mar 2, 2011
This weekend marks the opening of the annual gathering of the National People’s Congress and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. The New York Times reports that a consensus has not yet emerged about...