Editing Transfer payment (section)

===China===

Since July 2011, existing regional and local social security schemes, including pooling arrangements, are gradually being unified under the country's first national law on social transfer payments. The government aims to establish a comprehensive, equitable, and unified pension system that covers both urban and rural residents by 2020. In 2016, the government decided to establish a unified health insurance system for both rural and non-salaried urban residents. The government has also announced that medical insurance and maternity insurance programs will be merged.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/progdesc/ssptw/2014-2015/asia/china.html|title=Social Security Programs Throughout the World: Asia and the Pacific, 2014: China|date=2014|publisher=US Social Security Administration}} {{PD-notice}}</ref>