A New Contract with China

Publiée le : 21 June 2006

The five-year project, financed by the European Commission, involves assisting the Chinese authorities in reforming their social security system – in particular through the provision of expertise based on European practices. Project objectives include:

• Building a suitable institutional framework for the development of an effective social protection policy and ensuring access to social security for the entire Chinese population.
• Conducting pilot experiments in different regions of the country under other technical assistance projects.
• Organising Sino-European forums on social security trends.
• Creating a national social security training centre.

The project will be coordinated by a resident team of five European experts, including one French specialist. Short-term inputs will be provided by European and local experts to implement programmes in the following areas:

• training and management of human resources,
• old-age pensions,
• health insurance,
• unemployment insurance,
• social security funding.

Since April 2006, the main task has been an analysis of the existing system with a view to identifying technical assistance needs in the area of social security and preparing – in close cooperation with local partners – a work schedule for the next few years. This first phase will conclude with a Sino-European seminar, scheduled for September 2006 in Peking and providing the opportunity to compare Chinese and European best practice in social security reform.

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