Social systems

A worker carries a sack of textile products past recruiters who wait for job seekers at an urban village in Guangzhou, China March 17, 2026.

China to expand public service access for migrant workers

Migrant workers who hold rural hukou from their hometowns often struggle to access public services in cities where they live and work

Over the next decade, roughly 300 million Chinese will retire - almost the equivalent of the entire US population. One in every two people aged over 65 in the Asia-Pacific region will live in China by 2040, Euromonitor estimates.

Global Enterprise

China plans ‘bigger, stronger’ social security fund to aid ageing society

CHINA will beef up its 2.88 trillion yuan (S$531.7 billion) social security fund, making it “bigger and stronger” to help support its rapidly ageing population as the number of new births and younger ...

More and more of what we do is driven by a complex assembly of vast interlocking social and technological mechanisms that we have made, but do not understand.

Opinion & Features

How humanity lost control

A recent book explains why big, complex social systems so often go off the rails

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