Politics and Policy in China's Social Assistance Reform

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Hammond
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Communist Party Of China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The City ◽  
Newspaper Articles

Every day in the People's Republic of China tens of millions of people receive help from the state through the minimum livelihood guarantee (dibao). What began as a reform in the city of Shanghai in the early 1990s is now a key component in the measures used by the Communist Party of China to maintain social stability and legitimacy. While scholars regularly discuss how effective dibao has been in alleviating poverty very little addresses what influenced its development. This book argues that in order to understand dibao we need to look at how the programme emerged and how it has developed in the years since. Drawing on newspaper articles, government reports and interviews with key officials and researchers, the book also addresses debate on the policy process in China as a whole.

scholarly journals Socialism with Chinese characteristics

Napredak ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-22
Author(s):  
Ivan Mrkić
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
Communist Party Of China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
Short Section ◽  
Populous Country

The text speaks about the formation of the Communist Party of China, its beginnings and development, as well as the categorizations ever since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. The new geopolitical reality has been explained, especially since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The argumentation is made about the peculiarities of Chinese history and modern development. The immeasurable importance of the Communist Party of China in governing the most populous country is pointed out. A short section on the relations between Serbia and China has been included. The conclusion highlights the general views encompassing most of the claims presented in the previous text.

“A Tolerant Society Is the Way Forward”: Exposing Chinese Chauvinism in Singapore, 1959–1979

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-92
Author(s):  
Jason Lim
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Ethnic Chinese ◽  
Government Records ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way ◽  
Newspaper Articles

Abstract Official narratives in Singapore have included the crackdown by the ruling People’s Action Party (pap) government under Lee Kuan Yew against the Chinese chauvinists on the city-state’s road to nationhood. From 1959 to 1976, the Lee government believed that Chinese chauvinism came from three sources: a population that was majority ethnic Chinese in Singapore, pro-communist organizations that exploited Chinese chauvinism for their own ends, and individuals or organizations that praised the People’s Republic of China at the expense of Singapore. Using newspaper articles, speeches by government ministers, oral history interviews, and declassified government records held in Singapore and overseas, this article assesses the threat of Chinese chauvinism in Singapore between the years 1959 and 1976. It argues that the Lee government made statements about Chinese chauvinists that were grounded either on truism, or on excoriating individuals, for its own political gain.

scholarly journals Political party diplomacy with Chinese characteristics in seven decades since founding of PRC: Innovations in practice and theory

Napredak ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-40
Author(s):  
Shi Xiaohu
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Political Party ◽  
The State ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Basic Logic ◽  
Communist Party Of China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
Foreign Exchanges ◽  
Development Tasks

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Communist Party of China has found itself in a complicated international situation and arduous development tasks. The CPC has steadily promoted its foreign exchanges in the process of inheritance and development. It has achieved leaps in practice of the theoretical innovations in party to party diplomacy with Chinese characteristics, which contributed significantly to the central missions of the Party and the nation, as well as the overall strategy of the state diplomacy. Starting at a new historical phase, it is crucial to summarize the experience of the practical and theoretical innovations in party to party diplomacy with Chinese characteristics. It is also of great importance to discover the basic logic and principles therein. All of which would provide practical significance for promoting a benign interaction between the practice and theory of party to party diplomacy, and make greater contribution.

scholarly journals The Establishment, Functioning and Reformation of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 56-60
Author(s):  
Petr N. Kobets ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Early Period ◽  
The State ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
State Council ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The Government

One of the primary roles in China’s public administration system is assigned to the state Council of the country. Currently, many researchers have an increased interest in this state body, which performs the functions of the country’s government and is the highest Executive authority. In this regard, the author set a task to study the features of the formation, functioning and reform of this public authority, which performs the function of the country’s government. As a result of the research, the author notes that the formation of the Chinese State Council has a long way to go, from the creation of rural administrations in the 1930s, to the formation of the Central people’s government in the 1950s and its regular reform until now. And if in the early period of the people’s Republic of China, the country’s Communist party together with the government were a single entity, then in the late 1970s, their functions were gradually distributed, and the government smoothly moved to independent day-to-day management of the state. Therefore, today the Communist party makes strategic decisions that determine the state’s policy, and government structures implement this policy, focusing on solving economic problems, leaving the issues of ideology, personnel and security to the Communist party. Special attention was paid to the modern features of the reform of the State Council, which is taking place within the framework of structural transformations carried out in the form of in-depth reforms of public administration institutions initiated in 2017 by the XIX Congress of the Chinese Communist party.

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