Social Security for State-Sector Workers in the People's Republic of China: The Reform Decade and Beyond.

The article focuses on the social security for state-sector workers in China's urban sector. Social security for the state work force, primarily income-security programs for state enterprises, faces unprecedented challenges caused by a decade of policy changes and experiments in social security and in enterprise and labor-force reforms. Information on the pre-1978 social security programs of the state and the major social security policy initiatives between 1978 and 1989 is presented.