Part I Central Concepts.- Introduction.- China's social transition and social welfare reform.- Impact of economic globalization on China's social welfare policy.- Financial crisis and institutional countermeasures amid China's social welfare reconstruction.- Social stratification objectives of China's welfare construction.- Civil society and China's social welfare reform.- Social quality theory and its enlightenment to China's welfare reform.- "Third Way" theory and Chinese way of welfare reform.- Part II China's welfare system.- Development of China's elderly welfare in the transitional period.- Development of welfare for the Chinese disabled in the transitional period.- Changes on children's palace and fulfillment of child welfare in China.- Welfare reconstruction for the urban poor: taking the subsistence security system as an example.- Social mobility and urban inclusion of migrant workers.

Keqing Han is Professor and doctoral supervisor of Renmin University of China. He is mainly engaged in the research of social security, social welfare and social policy. He is also a visiting scholar to the School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley.