Childcare Policy in China: Review, Reflection and Reconstruction. (1st October 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Jinglun, Yue; Xin, Fan
• Is Part Of: Social sciences in China. Volume 41:Number 4(2020)
• Page Start: 151
• Page End: 168
• Publication Date: 2020-10-01
• Subjects: childcare -- social care -- social policy -- people's well-being; 儿童照顾 -- 社会照顾 -- 社会政策 -- 美好生活; China -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; China -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; China -- Politics and government -- Periodicals; 300.951
• DOI: 10.1080/02529203.2020.1844448
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0252-9203

Abstract

Abstract : In recent years, China's "childcare crisis" has worsened, affecting children, women, families and even society as a whole in multiple ways. A review of the childcare policy since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 shows that it has shifted from construction to destruction and thence to partial reconstruction, entering a crucial reconstruction stage after the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. To cope effectively with the childcare crisis that has emerged from the changes in population structure and population policies, socioeconomic transformation, family changes, etc., we need to gain a renewed understanding of the important role of childcare policy in socioeconomic development and in the people's sense of betterment, in order to build an integrated childcare system with universally accessible benefits in which the state, the market, society and families participate.