A Suitable Choice

<正>Community governance is a key area in social governance in every country because it is a way for the state government to manage affairs closely related to the most direct participants of social activities,solving social contradictions and safeguarding social structure and order.China,thanks to constant innovation in community governance,has kept up with the times and played a positive role in promoting economic development and social harmony and progress.     

Migrant Workers： Urban Underclass

ACCORDING to official statistics, there are now 130 million (equivalent to half the American population) migrant workers in Chinese cities. This means that China has more migrant than urban workers, and that they constitute the main Chinese industrial workforce. To those familiar with China, this phenomenon is an important signal for social change. The term farmer carries quite different connotations in China from what it does in the West, where farming is a profession taken up by well-educated people and involves large-scale mechanical production. Also known as agricultural industrial workers, fanners have a social status equal to that of urban dwellers. In China, being a fanner is synonymous with low social status. Chinese fanners have a comparatively poor education and live on a small patch of farmland (per capita farmland is less than 1 mu, 1 mu = 1/15 hectare). Some farmers work in non-agricultural industries, or go to cities as migrant workers, but do not enjoy the same political rights and social     

Small Potatoes Growing Bigger

The social and economic status of rural migrant laborers is improving steadily Rural migrant work- crs arc the offspring of China's transition from an agricultural to industrial society.The year 2008 marks the 30th anni- versary of China's reform and opening-up policy.In the past three decades,dramatic social and economic changes have taken place.As a spe- cial social group,what have rural workers contributed to the social and economic development of China? Wang Chunguang,a research fel- low studying rural migrant workers in the Institute of Sociology at the Chinese     

Creating an Institutional Environment for Protecting the Rights and Interests of China’s Dispatched Labor

Employment is fundamental in improving the livelihood of the people and social security is the source of human happiness. This is how the international community protects and improves basic human rights. It is also the policy China has adopted to achieve sustainable economic and social development. Furthermore,     

GROWING FROM THE GRASSROOTS

<正>A community of migrants becomes a role model,thanks to innovative social managementBinhu Century Community is a cluster of vibrant highrises near Chaohu Lake.the fifth largest freshwater lake in China,located in Hefei.capital of east China's Anhui Province.Nourished by the humid weather.the plants here are exuberant and refreshingly verdant,adding color and vitality to the neighborhood.     

THIS WEEK

SOWING HOPE A spring farming ceremony is held in the community of Khesum, in the city of Shannan in Tibet Autonomous Region, southwest China. This kind of ceremony dates back more than 1,600 years. According to the Tibetan calendar, March 16 marked the start of this year’s spring farming. Khesum Community, previously Khesum Village, was the first village in Tibet to launch social reforms to end the feudal serfdom system in 1959. By 2017, all residents of Khesum had risen out of poverty. The annual per-capita net income of the community reached 25,324 yuan ($3,900) in 2020, a more than 100-fold increase since 1978.     

A Lawful Act

正China's bid to regulate overseas NGOs'activities will promote developmentand social progress Regulating the activities of overseas non-governmental organizations(NGOs)by law is a universal practice in the international community.To better regulate their activities in China and promote their healthy development,the Chinese Government recently enacted the Law on the Management of the Activities     

Working for Harmonious Community--Government role in promoting harmony in community

The Wannianchang Neighborhood Community in the Chenghua Distric.t, Chengdu City in Sichuan Province,covers an area of about 5.2 square kilometers and has a population of about 58,000. The area is noted for the largest number of factories, floating population and low-income groups. The office of the community, which is the grassroots governmental organ, has done a great deal of solid work to promote social stability and harmony.     

Should Charities Offer Kickbacks?

正It has been reported that a charity organization named Shilehui in Jinhua, east China’s Zhejiang Province, permits its social workers to pocket 15 percent from each charity donation they collect. Twelve social workers of the Web-based charity collected 23.64     

The Changing World of Social Work

WEARING a ponytail, 29-year-old Wang Qi has an infectious smile and a bright, capable look about her. In spite of her youth, she is director of the Donggaodi Community service station in Beijing’s Fengtai District. In the three years that she has dedicated herself to community-based social work, Wang admits that she has had to learn a lot on the job. The residents in the community highly appreciate her efforts.