Professor Xiulan Zhang is Director, Institute of Social Development and Public Policy, Beijing Normal University. She was invited to be Senior International Associate with the Rising Powers in International Development programme, based at IDS, due to her wide experience as an analyst of Chinese social and health policy and her close collaboration with policymakers in that country.
The Rising Powers in International Development programme is developing an evidence-base around the role of rising powers (including the BRICS countries) in development and will be producing practical policy guidance on effective approaches for engaging with them.
Globalization and Health, volume 30.12
The effectiveness of antibiotics in treating bacterial infections is decreasing in China because of the widespread development of resistant organisms. Although China has enacted a number of regulations to address this problem, but the impact is very limited.
6 June 2016
IDS Bulletin Vol. 41 Nos. 4
Using evidence from the Wenchuan earthquake (12 May 2008) in China, this article examines the impact of disaster on the functioning of China's social protection system. The article examines the social protection system and the recipients of social protection. It presents four main findings: (1)...
11 January 2016
IDS Bulletin Vol. 45 Nos. 4
In parallel to its domestic economic boom, China has also been growing as an international actor and as a ‘Rising Power’ in global development. This introduction outlines the need for further understanding of China's own development experience, its increasing involvement in development...
4 January 2016
Policy Brief 46
The development of a rural health insurance system in China provides a test case to examine how experimental policy development can work in social and health policy.
24 October 2013