This paper develops life-cycle models for the mair. social security systems: the state-secured system, the welfare state system, the compulsory savings system and the social insurance system. All four life cycles are similarly composed of birth, growing, peak, decline and death stages. China is in the growth stage of the social insurance model and is expected to enter the peak in 30 years or so, by a series of proposed efforts in economic reform and policies.
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