English Abstract: This article provides an analysis of why China should follow the OECD model of active social policy … reforms, and should shift the focus of Chinese social policy towards investing the individuals' capabilities and making the … best of them. It argues that China's post-Mao social policy has placed socially vulnerable groups in the position of …

mitigating the negative consequences of rapid economic and social change. Second, the political development in China should focus …'s economic and social security, provide legal protection of their property and personal rights, and promote their participation …