Unemployment benefits are almost nonexistent

Tar and cement to the tar. It is currently the only response of the Chinese authorities to the global economic crisis which was a decline in exports of goods "made in China", and repel the growth of the country to its lowest level in 20 years. Sure of him, the Government has to ensure the Parliament that he would succeed to maintain activity and to generate an increase of 8 on all 2009 GDP by investing heavily in infrastructure. New airports will be opened. Highways will be doubled and electrified railway lines. Managers of the Communist Party, who fear that a thrust of social resentment return in question the legitimacy of their absolute power, applaud. The recipe is necessarily good. They apply it successfully for thirty years now. In 1998, it had already allowed them to get out of the Asian financial crisis. In the stimulus package inlayed to 4,000 billion yuan but only 1,180 seem actually to budgeted , 45 of the expenditure are naturally promised major works when only 1 of the funding should be allocated to social programs.

Within the party, many experts explain yet that China should review emergency economic structure if it is to maintain sustainable growth. The current crisis has shown that the country was still far too dependent on its exports and lacked a domestic market that is powerful enough to offset the international air holes.

China is the third economic power of the planet, but its inhabitants are still petrified at the thought of eating. Households save one third of their income to prevent accidents of life that they face only. Half the population lacks the means to afford decent medical care in the "public" hospitals in the astronomical bills. Unemployment benefits are almost non-existent. Obsessed by the success of their single child families ruin in tuition, course of support or other school material. Lack of appropriate structures, they also can take care of their elderly. These problems are not new. They have often denounced by senior leaders of the country.

Since they are in power, President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, say themselves, want to reform the welfare State to emerge a "harmonious society". They did vote regular increases in the budgets for education, health or aid to the unemployed. But these progressions are limited and Chinese social budgets are always lower than those available in other major countries in development. In 2007, the Chinese State health expenditures were, thus, only 1 of the GDP of the nation when they amounted to 3.4 of GDP to 2 of GDP in Thailand and the Brazil.

If the central Government well diagnosed his evil, he does not impose its views to the local baronies which have other priorities. Considering himself adversely affected by the very confusing organization distributed in the country, local authorities the 31 provinces, 333 municipalities, 2.859 counties and 611.234 rural villages which theoretically are responsible for the bulk of social programs prefer encourage the industrial development of their territory to generate tax rather than Fund costly social policies. They are therefore hampering all the generous reforms splendid unsuccessfully in Beijing.

In a system policy does not know the Democratic pressure, the highest leaders of the country are not responsible to the people but only before the other leaders of the regime. It is they that should appeal to the next Party Congress. Panicked by the suddenness of the crisis, the central Government has thus to convey once again to pressure from the large industrial provinces by accepting a freeze on minimum wages and hampering the application of a recent law on contract of employment, which was yet to strengthen social protection for all employees and effectively promote domestic consumption. Always sacrificed, the Chinese consumer will find it difficult to save the national economy and global growth.