The news is that the government is not going to be able to get a better response.Reuters.The Chinese Government ' s plan to strengthen social security contributions had triggered a web-based rebound. The most striking is not the expert ' s policy argument, but rather the straightforward statement by a group of young people: how can social security contributions be added first, given the inadequate salaries and precarious work? A topic on withdrawal from social security was limited in part after more than 48 million views were received in Twitter. The controversy, which has moved from digital to the ability of workers to live, shows that the coverage calculated by the Government is not the same as the cash flows calculated by the population.
Beijing promoted the expansion of coverage of the social security system for old-age, medical and other persons and the strengthening of the legal contributions of enterprises. (a) Social security coverage is not the whole of the problem; The question is who bears the additional costs and whether the worker has sufficient and stable income. The blogger says:1 NovemberThe penalty for non-payment by an enterprise will be more uniform and serious non-payment may be punished by a fine up to three times the amount due. The authorities also wish to use the big data to find the uninsured population. Technology makes the call more accurate, but it does not automatically raise wages for one month or create jobs for the unemployed.

Many young people are opposed to receiving pensions after retirement, but to the current wage and rents, which are in a hard conflict. The contributions of enterprises and individual contributions are on paper and in reality affect recruitment costs, income and informal work. For those delivering take-up, part-time and temporary contracts, income may fall on a daily basis. Long-term security is worth establishing, but it is easy to turn the sense of security that the State wants to establish into an immediate personal anxiety by requiring workers to bear fixed expenses and wait for future benefits to materialize.
This is not the same thing as the rural old-age pension, social security loans and local “data searchers” previously reported on the website. Today's new information focuses on the public reaction of social media throughout the country, limited topics and the forthcoming penalties. (b) Digital governance is not a natural violation, nor can it be described as a persecution of workers in every legal collection; But it magnifies a fundamental contradiction: the executive can know who did not pay, is it equally willing to discuss publicly why it cannot pay, which jobs are not secure, and how income distribution affects the sustainability of the social security system?
Beijing hopes that better social security will boost consumption by reducing residents ' savings for old age and health care. Wages are separated between policy objectives and real results. For low-income families, increases in contributions may be at a lower cost than today ' s consumption, and long-term benefits may not be immediately felt. The government sector will be better looking if it simply shows the number of new participants and ignores the burden of contributions, while the money in the workers ' pockets may be more and more tight. Real and valuable fiscal reform must explain who bears the costs and how the benefits of the system are distributed, rather than viewing the coverage of the population as the only performance.
The social security system needs to protect workers and should seriously address the malicious evasion of contributions by enterprises; At the same time, online opposition should not be limited by touching on policy disputes. Forty-eight million browsing shows that this is not a small circle of complaints. The trustworthiness of social security depends on whether the Government grants the right to ordinary people to discuss income, pension allocations, medical burdens and financial priorities. A system that is difficult to debate in public even if it is affordable cannot solve the trust gap with more databases.

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