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PROGRAM

09:0009:20

Opening

Ceremony

Moderator: Prof. Jianping YAO (North China Electric Power

University)

Welcome Address

Wei WANG (Vice Director of School of Humanities & Social

Sciences, NCEPU)

9:209:30 Group

Photo

Group Photo

09:3010:40

Section 1

Chair: Prof. Xiaolin WANG (Fudan University, China)

Lecture 1: Korean Social Security System: Past, Present & Future

Directions

Prof. Tae Kyun YOO (Soongsil University, Korea)

Lecture 2: Approaching the Care Crisis East and West: Comparing

Family Policies in East Asia and Scandinavia

Prof. Peter ABRAHAMSON (Copenhagen University, Denmark)

Lecture3: Moving Towards a More Inclusive Society

Prof. Byung-Cheol KIM ( Renmin University of China, China)

Discussant: Dr. Marzena BREZA (EU Resident Expert, EU-China

Social Protection Reform Project)

Discussion

10:4010:50 Tea Break

10:5012:00

Section 2

Chair: Prof. Tae Kyun YOO (Soongsil University, Korea)

Lecture1: Social policy in the EU: Some challenges and lessons

learned for China

Dr. Marzena BREZA (EU Resident Expert, EU-China Social

Protection Reform Project)

Lecture2: The rise and decline of DIBAO caseloads in China: myth

and reality

Prof. Chenxi HUANG (East China Normal University, China)

Lecture 3: China’s Progress in Multidimensional Poverty Reduction

Since Reform and Opening Up

Prof. Xiaolin Wang (Fudan University, China)

Discussant: Prof. Dewen,WANG (Senior Social Protection

Economist, World Bank)

Discussion

12:0014:00 Lunch

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14:0015:20

Section3

Chair: Prof. Ji young KIM ( Soongsil University, Korea)

Lecture 1: Social Protection of Migrant and Left-behind Children in

Qinghai and An’hui Province, China--Cash Transfer for Children in

Difficult

Prof. Jianping YAO (North China Electric Power University, China)

Lecture2: The debate over Korea’s national pension service in the

media

Prof. Woong Ki PARK, (Soongsil University, Korea)

Lecture3: The establishment and transformation of the east Asian

housing model: Discussions on property-based welfare.

Assistant Prof. Chen NIE (Beihang university, China)

Discussant: Prof. Chenxi HUANG (East China Normal University,

China)

Discussion

15:2015:40 Tea Break

15:4017:00

Section4

Chair: Prof. Peter ABRAHAMSON (Copenhagen University,

Denmark)

Lecture1: Revisiting Aid Effectiveness and Social Development in

Africa: A Quantitative Analysis of Economic Inequality, ODA, and

Growth

Prof. Ji young KIM( Soongsil University, Korea)

Lecture 2: Solar Energy and Poverty Alleviation in China: Policy

and Reality

Assistant Prof. Zhanping HU (North China Electric Power

University, China)

Lecture3: China’s Aged Care System: Policy Framework and

Priorities

Prof. Dewen,WANG (Senior Social Protection Economist, World

Bank)

Discussant: Prof. Woong Ki PARK, (Soongsil University, Korea)

Discussion

17:0019:00 Dinner

Place: International Exchange Center, Room 6, NCEPU

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Section 1

. 1.Korean Social Security System: Past, Present & Future Directions

Tae Kyun YOO

Professor, School of Social Welfare, Soongsil University, Seoul Korea

E-mail: [email protected]

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2. Approaching the Care Crisis East and West: Comparing Family Policies in

East Asia and Scandinavia

Peter ABRAHAMSON

Professor, Department of Sociology University of Copenhagen, Denmark


<Abstract>

Superficially and on paper East Asia and Scandinavia share a formal commitment to

collective care systems for children, handicapped, disabled and frail elderly. Entitlements have

existed for some 30 years in the West, while they are of very recent dates in the East, which may

be part of the explanation for the vast differences in implementation between the two sub

regions. In East Asia policy gaps are enormous, while they hardly exist in Scandinavia. Hence,

comparing these two sub regions is in one dimension, a legal dimension, a most similar case

scenario, while in another perspective, that of everyday life experiences, we are dealing with a

most different case scenario. The paper analyzes in some detail the introduction and

implementation of social care policies in both Scandinavia and in East Asia. In the former the

smooth implementation of extensive family policies is associated with a particular political

culture of consensual democracy, while the huge policy gaps in East Asia is associated with lack

of compliance on behalf of both employers, state agencies, and users embedded in a Confucian

culture, which is de facto hindering wide scale implementation.

mailto:[email protected]

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3.Moving Towards a More Inclusive Society

Byung-Cheol KIM

Professor, Renmin University of China, China


<Abstract>

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Section 2

1. Solar Energy and Poverty Alleviation in China: Policy and Reality

Zhanping Hu

Assistant Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, North China Electric Power University,

China


<Abstract>

Since 2014, the central government of China has started to promote an ambitious plan to

alleviate rural poverty through utilizing distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. The solar

energy for poverty alleviation initiative plans to add over 10 GW capacity and benefit more than

2 million households from around 35,000 villages across the country by 2020. An array of

policies and regulations have been launched and designed by the central government to

encourage the development of solar PV systems at the local level, and with the strong support,

different modes of solar energy-poverty alleviation have emerged across the country. Also, many

problems have been widely found in implementation, including high initial investment,

inaccurate targeting, weak sustainability and so forth. This presentation will review the policies

of the solar energy-poverty alleviation initiative, and what happened at the local level, namely,

the reality of the ambitious plan. Some policy implications will be made in the end of the

presentation.

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2. Social policy in the EU: Some challenges and lessons learned for China

Marzena BREZA

EU Resident Expert for Component 3 EU-China SPRP


<Abstract>

Social policy in China and its institutional structure are becoming more and more complex

since for more than 20 years the social protection scheme is expanding across the country and

covering most the population. The original approach to social policy in China was to focus on

offering support to most vulnerable groups. However, the standards and scope of social policy is

expanding over last years even differentiated across country (depending on the local

circumstances). The main social support program Dibao (minimum income cash benefit) is

targeting more than 50 million people each year. Considering that China will experience a rapid

increase in elder population under changing socio-economic conditions there is an increasing

need to adjust the social policy in the next years.

One of key groups for social policy beneficiaries in China should be elderly and families with

children (school age) as well migrant workers with dependent children. Since social protection -

including social insurance schemes – is covering an increasing number of employees, social

security provisions for the elderly will have a significant impact on ensuring ageing in dignity.

Other aspect is to keep working age population active on the labour market at the same time

ensuring other than family-based child care facilities.

Demographic change and economic development should therefore be key factors for

developing a comprehensive social policy coordinated among different public, non-profit and

private actors.

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3. China’s Progress in Multidimensional Poverty Reduction Since Reform and

Opening Up

Xiaolin Wang

Professor, Fudan University, China


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Section 3

1. Social Protection of Migrant and Left-behind Children in Qinghai and An’hui

Province, China--Cash Transfer for Children in Difficult

Jianping YAO

Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, North China Electric Power University, China


<Abstract>

With the development of economy and rapid urbanization, China is witnessing a large

number of migrant and left-behind children, which results in a series of social issues. The

research topic concentrates on the issue of cash transfer related to the migrant children in

Qinghai Province and rural left-behind children and Anhui Province, regarding the effectiveness

of cash transfer policy in improving the status of children and promoting the overall welfare of

children. According to the comparison and analysis of the two groups of “cash transfer program

targeted children” and “non-cash transfer program targeted children” of the project pilot

villages/communities, we found that: (1) The cross-generation fostering is so pervasive,

especially in Anhui Province. The children’s guardians interviewed are older people, with low

level of education and relatively poor physical condition; (2)The annual income of families

interviewed in Qinghai Province exceeds that of Anhui Province. However, to either the “non-

cash transfer program targeted family” or the “cash transfer program targeted family”, income

from various social protection schemes is vital for families in both provinces to maintain

livelihood. (3)The household expenditure of children in Qinghai Province exceeds that of Anhui

Province, while the consumption expenditures of cash transfer families in both provinces are

significantly less than those of noncash transfer families. (4) As for the living conditions of

children, the “cash transfer targeted children” live in relatively poorer conditions and suffer a

lower daily living quality than “non-cash transfer targeted children”.

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2. The debate over Korea’s national pension service in the media

Woong Ki PARK

Professor, Soongsil University, Korea


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3. The establishment and transformation of the east Asian housing model:

Discussions on property-based welfare.

Chen NIE

Professor, School of Public Administration, Beihang University, China


<Abstract>

There has been rapid economic growth among East Asian countries and regions in the end

of last century; along with this was the radically increasing home ownership rate and

interactions between housing systems and social policy arrangements under the logic of growth,

which has caused wide attention among international scholars. International discussions center

on the establishment of property-based welfare, but its transformation has long been overlooked

by scholars. To fill this gap, this study analyses the experience of property-based welfare in

terms of its entrance, procedure and exit drawing on the establishment and transformation of the

East Asian housing model. In the last, implication for the development of housing system and

social welfare system in China are discussed.

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Section 4

1. Revisiting Aid Effectiveness and Social Development in Africa: A

Quantitative Analysis of Economic Inequality, ODA, and Growth

Ji young KIM

Professor, Soongsil University，Korea


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2. The rise and decline of DIBAO caseloads in China: myth and reality

Chenxi HUANG

Professor of population and social welfare

Vice dean of school of social development, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China


<Abstract>

Since firstly established nationwide in 1999, Diao program has become the most salient

social assistance program in urban China. The Ministry of Civil Affairs declared the

realization of universal coverage for eligible poor people in urban area in 2002. Dibao

program has provided cash assistance for about 12.64 million urban poor persons, representing

1.58% of total urban population in 2017. Yet the caseload of urban Dibao has decreased a half

from the peak number of 23.48 million in 2009, while the coverage rate has declined for 15

years since 2002. What are the main real reasons for the continuous decline of urban Dibao

caseload and coverage? Is this mean the decline of poverty-stricken people in urban China?

Based on official statistics of Dibao program from 2003 to 2017 from the Ministry of Civil

Affair, this study attempts to describe the changes of caseload and coverage of urban Dibao

nationwide and among different provinces, and reveal real reasons for such long-term

downward trend. It also discusses the implications of the long-term decrease of coverage rate

of Dibao program for the national strategy of taking targeted measures for poverty alleviation

and the goal of completing the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects by

2020 in China.

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3. China’s Aged Care System: Policy Framework and Priorities

Dewen WANG

Professor, Senior Social Protection Economist, China and Mongolia Bureau, World Bank


<Abstract>

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Participant List

Peter ABRAHAMSON

Affiliation Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen ,

Denmark E-mail [email protected]

Byung-Cheol KIM

Affiliation Associate Professor, Department of Social Security, Renmin University of China

E-mail [email protected]

Jiyoung KIM

Affiliation Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science & International Relations, Soongsil

University E-mail [email protected]

Woong Ki PARK

Affiliation Professor, Department of Journalism, Advertising, and PR, Soongsil University


Tae Kyun YOO

Affiliation Professor, School of Social Welfare, Soongsil University


Marzena BREZA

Affiliation EU Resident Expert, EU-China Social Protection Reform Project


Dewen WANG

Affiliation Senior Social Protection Economist, World Bank


Xiaolin Wang

Affiliation Professor, Fudan University, Beijing


Chen NIE

Affiliation Assistant Professor, School of Public Administration, Beihang University, China


Chenxi HUANG

Affiliation Professor, school of social development, East China Normal University, Shanghai


Wei WANG

Affiliation Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, North China Electricity Power


Jianping YAO

Affiliation Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, North China Electricity Power


Zhanping HU

Affiliation Assistant Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, North China Electricity

Power University E-mail [email protected]

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