Dr Wang Jing and Dr Liang Chen will present their work on the roles, incentives and strategies of county governments and community-based organizations in designing and delivering social policy in China.
Dr Wang Jing will analyse the increasingly crucial role of the county government in the reform of primary health care services. Dr Liang Chen will explore the institutional environment within which community-based organizations emerge, their strategies, and the change they induce in the government’s behaviour.
About the speakers
Dr. Liang Chen is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She received her Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree in Sociology at the Department of Sociology of Peking University, and PH.D degree in Sociology at the Department of Sociology of CASS.
Since 2009, she began to work at the Sociology Institute of CASS. Her publication articles mainly includes: “The Anti-poverty policy operating mechanisms and the role of local government”; “The practice of the minimum living guarantee in rural society: a case study of Wuling mountain area”; “A Vicious Circle Between Illness and Poverty: the Reproduction of Poverty in the Context of Rural Ethics”; “The Finite Individualization in Rural Society: A case study”; “Some theoretical reflections on the community construction in China” (Co-work).
Dr. Wang Jing is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. From 2013-2014, she worked as a visiting Scholar at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. She was a member of the Project-Health VIII Evaluation for DFID from 2005 to 2007. She was a member of the Research Project-Long Term Health Financing in China for the Japanese International Cooperation Agency from 2013 to 2014. She was Project leader for the Youth National Social Science Fund, researching on Elderly Mental Health in Rural China.
About the project
Read the blog post: How China’s Social Care Providers are Experimenting to Meet the Changing Needs of Citizens part of the project ‘Changing Health and Welfare in China and the UK’, STEPS Centre.
Watch the video
You can also watch the video on YouTube here: Health & social care in the UK: lessons for China.
