China's Welfare System Analysis

Currently, in wake of rapid economic growth, China is becoming a developed country. This requires China to set up an integrated welfare system and improve China’s welfare system level. Aiming at that, China’s welfare system can get help from the Chinese Household Registration System (Hukou System). To explain clearly the relationship of China’s welfare system and Hukou System, all of the three following aspects including the way of China’s welfare system and Hukou System impacts each other, the current welfare system in China, and the reform of China’s welfare system will be introduced.

Part of foreigners are unacquainted with Hukou system. Historically, Hukou system is formed by a series of laws and takes aim at distinguishing the rural and …show more content…
According to An Hui Province Finance Department, On the one hand, the Hukou System has become “the core of China’s welfare system” (An Hui Province Finance Department 2011) .All of the following aspects including the “employment, pension, healthcare, health, housing, education and even part of the supply system arrangement” (An Hui Province Finance Department 2011) belongs to China’s welfare system and also adhere to the Hukou System. These aspects have become the biggest obstacles and bottlenecks of the reform Hukou System. On the other hand, “urban-rural split of the Household Registration System” (An Hui Province Finance Department 2011), but also makes China’s welfare system gradually showing the different policy and conditions in urban and rural areas. It is not fair, especially for rural residents. The reform of China’s welfare system forces the Hukou System to do some change, in return the new Household Registration System let part of China’s welfare system adjust to the new relationship of Hukou System. (An Hui Province Finance Department …show more content…
Not long after, these famers will face financial crisis. China’s welfare system has the responsibilities to solve these problem. The new reform of China’s welfare system is in need, so government pay more attention to create more job, build school, which is built for adults, exploit new land to cultivate, etc. with the help of China’s welfare system.
The essay, which written by An Hui Province Finance Department shows, “Under conditions of unlimited supply of labor and scarcity of public service resources, competition for employment opportunities and welfare provisions between migrant and local workers in urban areas shows both China’s welfare system and Hukou System need reform.” (An Hui Province Finance Department 2011) The unequal treatment between migrant and local workers are becoming more and more obvious, in recent years. There is no doubt that China’s welfare system need to treat these migrant workers equally and give more care to them, not