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Policy-Oriented Learning: A Case on Initiating Long-Term Care Insurance in China’s Social Security Sector

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  • Jian Zhang

    (Department of Marketing, School of Management, Changchun Institute of Technology, Changchun 130012, China)

  • Xiao Yu

    (Northeast Asian Research Center, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China)

  • Yanzhe Zhang

    (Northeast Asian Research Center, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China)

Abstract

This paper explores the initiation process of the long-term care insurance (LTCI) policy in China’s social security sector, and focuses on policy-oriented learning activities to develop initiatives from German lessons. It presents a case from the LTCI pilot program, which serves as a new policy product that provides care to the elderly and disabled and upgrades the social security sector’s performance. This study implements policy-oriented learning to construct an analytical framework and applies it to China’s social security system. This research suggests that policy-oriented learning is a rational tool used to manufacture policy products that enable intellectual development and can provide roadmaps for administrative reform. The findings contribute to the current knowledge on policy-oriented learning by offering new insights from China’s experience with LTCI, thus helping to fill the gaps that are created when policy-oriented learning is applied to different systems and contexts, with unique cultural, traditional, and political characteristics.

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  • Jian Zhang & Xiao Yu & Yanzhe Zhang, 2021. "Policy-Oriented Learning: A Case on Initiating Long-Term Care Insurance in China’s Social Security Sector," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(6), pages 1-13, March.
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