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This book provides a comprehensive review of relations between China and the EU from the perspectives of politics, economy and culture in order to provide a better understanding of the development of the China-EU Strategic Partnership over the past ten years and to explore its future direction. It goes on to discuss China-EU relations against the backdrop of global governance, as well as China's relations with some of the EU member states. The final part of the report presents a comparative analysis of China-EU relations and EU-US relations. This book will help readers to better understand the status quo and to predict China-EU relations in the near future

Series Foreword -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Take Realizing Social Insurance as a Guiding Aim: 1921-1949 -- 2 Employment and Social Security Under the Planned Economy: 1949-1978 -- 2.1 Origin of the Employment Security -- 2.1.1 The Original Ruling Purpose to Protect Laborers and First Systematic Experiments -- 2.1.2 Industrialization and Modernization as National Missions -- 2.2 The Labor Insurance Adapted to "Industry First" Strategy (1950-1955) -- 2.2.1 Three Different Urban Insurance Systems -- 2.2.2 Dual Security System Between Urban and Rural Areas -- 2.3 Labor Insurance System in Embryo (1955-1966) -- 2.3.1 Changing System of Labor Insurance: Fast Expansion and Unified Standards -- 2.3.2 Gaps and Differences in Standards -- 2.3.3 Reform in Labor System and Adjustment in Labor Insurance System -- 2.4 The "Cultural Revolution" and the Labor Insurance "Borne by Institutions" -- 2.5 Establishment of Labor Insurance -- 3 From "Enterprise Insurance" to Social Insurance -- 3.1 China in 1908s: Transformation of Employment Patterns -- 3.1.1 Rely on Enterprises to Solve Employment Problems Left Over from the "Cultural Revolution" -- 3.1.2 Enterprises' Overloaded or Underloaded Pension Burden Forced the Pension System to Be Reformed -- 3.1.3 "Market-Driven Employment" Is the Breakthrough for Establishing Social Security System -- 3.2 Reform, Opening up, and Transformation of Social Security Ideas -- 3.2.1 Traditional Ideas and Theories of Social Security -- 3.2.2 Learn from Foreign Experience and Transform Social Security Ideas -- 3.3 Experiments of Social Security Reform -- 3.3.1 Pilot Reform in Collective Enterprises -- 3.3.2 Pension Pooling and Individual Payment in State-Owned Enterprises -- 3.3.3 From the "Employment Security" to the "Laid-off Insurance": Deeping Marketization of the Employment

Foreign aid has connected China and the international community through many channels, and created new types of strong partnerships throughout the world. As a recipient country, China and donors have engaged in an unprecedentedly deep level of cooperation on development-related issues. China's development experience has resulted in key changes to the relationships and partnerships between China and donors, from receiving foreign aid to entering into development cooperation. China has provided valuable experiences for other developing countries, experiences that are all the more relevant because they have revealed key factors at work in developing recipient countries. This has also led China to form closer cooperative relationships with other developing countries with regard to development issues. In short, foreign aid has changed China