Addresses a significant gap in current coverage of Chinese social
policy in the reform era, namely coverage of the dibao programme.
Provides an introduction to Chinese social assistance since the
1990s which challenges the official narrative of a smooth policy
process with intended outcomes. Uses extensive primary Chinese
language sources to support the arguments being made using a
grounded analytical approachincluding newspaper reports, government
speeches and interviews Every day in the People's Republic of China
70 million people receive help from the state through the minimum
livelihood guarantee (dibao). What began as a reform in the city of
Shanghai in the early 1990s is now a key component in the measures
used by the Communist Party of China to maintain social stability
and legitimacy. While scholars regularly discuss how effective
dibao has been in alleviating poverty very little addresses what
influenced its development. This book argues that in order to
understand dibao we need to look at
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