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People’s Republic of China: The Social Insurance Public Service Platform

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ilo.org (05.11.2025) Since the 2000s, China has made significant progress towards the extension of social insurance coverage to its entire population. Alongside this progress, growing demand for convenient and high-quality social insurance services has driven efforts to establish a nationwide service platform. The Unified Social Insurance Public Service Platform, launched in 2019, integrates national and local platforms, social security cards and service windows to provide comprehensive and seamless services.
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china
Global challenges
Extension of coverage
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Information and communication technology
Extension of coverage
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Workers have a say on digital rules through collective bargaining

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https://www.manilatimes.net/2025/11/03/tmt-newswire/pr-newswire/workers-have-a-…
manilatimes.net (11.03.2025) A nationwide initiative led by the All-China Federation of Trade Unions has made strides this year, using a "centralized collective bargaining" campaign between platform companies and their workers.
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china
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Platform workers
Digital plateform workers
Transparency of working rules
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news
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Published_SS_Monitor

China’s 200m gig workers are a warning for the world

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https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/09/18/chinas-200m-gig-workers-are-a-warn…
economist.com (18.09.2025) The biggest workforce in the world has undergone an extraordinary transformation. China’s farm labourers and industrial proletariat have been joined by an army of gig workers. Tens of millions now use tech platforms to find jobs for fleeting periods; fully 200m, or 40% of the urban labour force, depend on some kind of flexible work. The fortunes of these precarious workers, many of whom struggle to buy property and gain access to public services and benefits, will shape China’s economy and society for years to come.
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china
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China’s experience in pursuing universal health coverage

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International Labour Organization (30.05.2025) China’s experience in pursuing universal health coverage: In recent years, China has made significant strides in extending health coverage. This technical report systematically summarizes China’s experience developing and strengthening its health system towards universal health protection. The report provides a clear picture of the recent evolution of the health system in China in the last decades and highlights remaining challenges.
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china
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Health

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China: Expansion of voluntary personal pension system - WTW

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In 2022, China’s central government piloted new tax incentives in 36 cities and regions to encourage employees to make voluntary contributions to individual retirement accounts to complement social security pension benefits and help address the challenges of a rapidly aging population. After a successful pilot, the system is now fully implemented nationwide as of December 15, 2024.
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china
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Pensions

China's retirement age reforms not enough to fix pension headache

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https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-retirement-age-reforms-not-enough-fi…
reuters (24.09.2024) China's move to raise retirement ages is a starting point to plug gaping pension deficits and bolster a shrinking workforce but more pain lies ahead as the economy slows, making further reforms urgent, say economists and demographers. Aging populations are a global phenomenon, but the issue is particularly stark in China due to the legacy of its one-child-policy, which was in place for three decades and has exacerbated its demographic challenges.
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china
Global challenges
Population ageing
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Pensions
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news
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China to gradually raise retirement age

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Xinhua (13.09.2024) Chinese lawmakers on Friday voted to adopt a decision on gradually raising the statutory retirement age in the country, marking the first adjustment in the arrangement since 1950s. According to the decision adopted at the 11th session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress, the statutory retirement age for men will be gradually raised from 60 to 63 in the course of 15 years starting 2025, while that for women cadres and women blue-collar workers will be raised from 55 to 58 and from 50 to 55, respectively.
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china
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Pensions
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news
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China plans "bigger, stronger"social security fund to aid ageing society

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https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-plans-bigger-stronger-social-security…
Reuters (20.08.2024) China will beef up its 2.88 trillion yuan ($406 billion) social security fund, making it bigger and stronger to help support its rapidly ageing population as the number of new births and younger workforce to support its seniors shrinks. The National Social Security Fund will "effectively" respond to population ageing and "improve the policy mechanism for the development of the elderly care industry," the fund's party secretary Ding Xuedong said.
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china
Global challenges
Population ageing
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Pensions
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New Forms of Employment and Labour Protection in China

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ILO Working Paper 103(20.02.2024)  The objective of this paper is to provide a panoramic description and analysis of the diversity of the new forms of employment that have been emerging in China, with the focus on their background, the main types, the status quo of labour rights protection, and the government's responses to the challenges of labour regulations brought by NFE. Finally, on the basis of the above, the paper puts forward corresponding policy recommendations on how to improve workers' protection in new forms of Employment.

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china
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Extension of coverage

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Digital plateform workers
Labour protection mechanisms
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report
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China’s population: Beijing urged to build digitally inclusive society, as it seeks insights into technical skills of its elderly

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https://www.scmp.com/economy/economic-indicators/article/3247144/chinas-populat…

South China Morning Post (03.01.2024) Questions for people aged 60 and above were added to a survey on population changes and the labour force, including their ability to use a smartphone. A demographer urged China, one of the world’s fastest ageing countries, to ‘build a digitally inclusive society’, while firms were asked to produce age-friendly products

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china
Global challenges
Population ageing
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Old-age pensions
Digital inclusion
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news
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Published_SS_Monitor