UNIVERSAL SERVICE OBLIGATIONS INCLUDING SOCIAL OBLIGATIONS

It involves the transformation of an idea into a marketable product or service, a new or improved manufacturing or distribution process, or a new method of social service.

Challenges ahead The main challenges include: developing the protection system in such a way that accepting work is always financially worthwhile; preventing the accumulation of problems as regards e.g. the long-term unemployed, people with mental or addiction problems, the over-indebted, and families of these; targeting support to people in the most vulnerable positions; improving co-operation between various actors concerned with the prevention of social exclusion and poverty; and addressing regional discrepancies so as to maintain the same standards of social services in the wh ...[+++]ole country.

Family planning is, regardless of its effects on general development objectives, above all a social service to enable people to exercise free and responsible choice about how many children they have.

It does not matter whether they are paid by community services or the hospital service, or if they are street workers or nurses.

The group, headed by Mr GAN Shi Jun, the Director General for Social Affairs in the State Science and Technology Commission(SSTC) also included representatives from the State Planning Commission (SPC) notably Mrs CHEN Yu Lian, Assistant Director General in the Regional Department of the Municipality of Beijing.