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China, The People's Republic
Total population (m.):  1354.1
GDP per capita (USD):  3267
 

2012

China to abolish free medical care for civil servants
 

2011

Financial functions integrated into social security cards
Social insurance coverage extended to foreigners
Toward an integration of the social security system
New pilot urban resident pension insurance programme initiated
Revised regulation hikes compensation under work injury insurance
2011 central budget to shore up social security in China
A trial program to defer retirement
 

2010

China’s first social insurance law adopted
China considers nationwide old-age allowances
New stipulations on pension portability adopted
 

2009

Government pilots new pension scheme for farmers
Recent developments in China's health care insurance
Addressing social impacts of the crisis
 

2008

China adopts special social security policies to assist quake-hit zones
Recent progress in social security coverage extension
Urban resident health care insurance covers over half the cities nationwide
Work Injury Insurance coverage extension to focus on farmer-turned workers
New welfare housing policies announced
Total social insurance revenues and aggregate accumulation top CNY 1 trillion each
Government eyes provincial pooling of pension funds in two years
Beijing pioneers in setting up an integrated and universal old-age security system
Pension for retired workers to increase for another three years
 

2007

New Employment Promotion Law takes effect in 2008
Government promotes reemployment through subsidies
Corporate annuity funds to be handed over to professional investors
New regulation on employment of persons with disabilities enacted
Government eyes universal access to primary health care system
Minimum subsistence system to be implemented nationwide
Social insurance coverage witnesses rapid expansion
 

2006

Government to improve pension system for enterprise employees
Social Security Fund to invest abroad
Government launches special programme to expand coverage
Nanjing City pioneers in unifying unemployment insurance contributions and benefits
Government to rebuild rural medicare
Farmers in Beijing covered by old-age insurance system
 

2005

Work injury insurance coverage witnesses rapid expansion
Basic subsistence guarantee system to be merged into the unemployment insurance system
New regulations on supplementary pension plans enacted
 

2004

Social protection to be extended to farmers
New regulations on maternity benefits to promote later childbirth
Major transfer of State assets to strengthen financing of social security
New employment injury regulations
 

2003

Increase in retirement benefits and subsistence allowances
National social security to invest in stock market
Supervision of social insurance funds strengthened
Re-employment policies strengthened
Health care system for the rural population to be introduced
 

2002

Social security reform pilot programme announced
 

2001

National Social Security Foundation established
 

2000

Planned new rules following dismissal from a State enterprise
 

1998

Law to protect rights of elderly
New social security ministry formed
 

1997

Pension formula models
 

1996

National audit of social insurance funds

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