The new system emerged piecemeal through a series of regulations and provisions in the 1994 Labour Law (劳动法) and 2008 Labour Contract Law (劳动合同法). Local and regional governments, rather than the national government, were to administer these funds. To fill the social welfare vacuum that began during the early stages of the reform era, the government sought in the 1990s to create a new system based on individual employment contracts that would make employers - and to a lesser extent, individual employees – primarily responsible for contributions to state-backed pensions, unemployment and medical insurance schemes. The current problems in China’s social welfare system can be traced back to three key processes: The break-up of the state-run economy, which had provided urban workers (a relatively small proportion of the overall workforce) with an “iron rice bowl” comprising guaranteed employment, housing, healthcare and pension the mass migration of rural workers (with no welfare coverage) to the cities and the one-child policy introduced in the 1980s, which meant that parents could no longer rely on a large extended family to look after them in their old age.

The population is ageing, fewer people are entering the workforce, and there are real concerns that the funds needed to support the welfare system could be entirely depleted unless radical reforms are introduced in the near future. As China enters the fifth decade of the reform era, the social welfare system is looking increasingly fragile. When you call this in the builder: gb.setDateFormat('yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.For the Chinese version of this article and additional links to Chinese language sources, please see 中国的社会保险体系 on our Chinese website.Ĭhina has achieved remarkable economic growth and development over the last four decades, but it has so far failed to create a comprehensive social welfare system that can protect and support workers in old age and ill-health and provide relief in times of economic distress. You can find all this code at link, but for quick reference I will copy here most relevant parts. More in particular you have to look at code of DefaultDateTypeAdapter that is used to parse dates. To fully respond to your question you need to dive into Gson source code.

First string is correctly parsed using your date format and your local time zone, second one does not respect it, so will be parsed by a default SimpleDateFormat object that has not milliseconds ('yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z' is the parsing format) and uses UTC timezone giving you a 'shift' in time part.

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