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Title:: For a Fairness-Oriented Old-Age Insurance System Reform in Public Institutions

Keywords:: public institutions; old-age insurance system; fairness-orientedness

Abstract:: In recent years, pilot reforms in the old-age insurance system have been independently carried out in public institutions around China, resulting in a worsening fragmentation of the old-age insurance system in administrative public institutions and public welfare institutions, and an imbalance in old-age pension between employees in public institutions and state-owned enterprises and public servants. Such an income imbalance is also prevailing inside and between public institutions, leading to complaints from workers in non-state-owned sectors and those who are self-employed against the incompleteness of reforms in public institutions. Apparently, the current situation is in conflict with the pursuit of fairness in our reform. Hence, we should stick to a relative fairness between those in public institutions, government offices, state-owned enterprises, social organizations, and private enterprises, farmers and self-employed workers. Also, a reasonable gap in old-age pension must be ensured among all groups, including staff in public institutions, so as to give full play to the fair concept and make sure of a sustainable development of the old-age insurance system.