social workers

14th Five-Year Plan outlines civil affairs agenda to 2025

The Ministry of Civil Affairs held a press conference on the “14th Five-Year Civil Affairs Development Plan” on June 18, with officials outlining the ministry’s plan for social care and the civil society sector through 2025. The plan specifies the…

2021-06-28

Social work once again included in the 2021 Government Work Report

On the 12th of March, the Xinhua News Agency was authorised to release the full text of the 2021 Government Work Report. Compared to the report announced by Premier Li Keqiang at the opening ceremony of the Fourth Session of…

2021-04-20

Two documents on child welfare encourage streamlined social support efforts

Editor’s note: What follows is CDB’s adapted translation of an article originally published by the China Philanthropy Times (公益时报) on the 25th of January. The original article can be found here. On the 25th of January, the Ministry of Civil…

2021-02-07

New policies published in Beijing to improve local elderly care services

On the 27th of November, the Beijing Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau issued the Beijing Implementation Measures for Training Health Professionals in the Care of the Elderly (referred to as the Implementation Measures below) and published interpretations of the document in…

2020-12-04

Social workers included in new plan for the clinical treatment of people with dementia

China’s National Health Commission recently published the Work Plan to Explore Special Services for the Prevention of Dementia. The plan recommends the creation of professional service teams to diagnose, treat and care for patients with mild cognitive impairment and dementia.…

2020-10-27

The Ministry of Civil Affairs releases important data on social organisations in 2019

On the 8th of September 2020, the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs released the Statistical Bulletin on the Development of Civil Affairs in 2019 on its website. The bulletin includes authoritative data on Chinese social organisations, the donations they receive,…

2020-10-14

The generation born in the 1960s is turning old; how will the elderly care sector meet their needs?

The year of 2020 marks the time for those born in the 1960s to enter old age. Estimates show that beginning in 2022, the new ageing population in China will increase annually by 10 million. But the generation born in…

2020-09-22

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