Conclusion

Abstract

Chapter 8 summarizes the main findings and contributions of this book. After a speculative note on the prospect of health reform in China after 2012 when the new leader, Xi Jinping, took power, this chapter discusses the implications of this study for both Chinese social welfare development and its authoritarianism. Finally, it concludes with a deliberation of the conditions for applying the argument about stratified expansion of social welfare provision beyond China.