China's 15th Five‑Year Plan calls for strengthening social‑insurance
sustainability. The State Taxation Administration said compliant
social‑insurance payments are necessary to bolster system sustainability and
protect workers' rights. Responding to recent media reports about consolidating
contribution bases, tax authorities will implement compliance and base
consolidation in classified, step‑by‑step measures and will not carry out a
blanket one‑size‑fits‑all approach. "We will advance compliance and consolidate
contribution bases in phases and by category; we will not simply adopt a
one‑size‑fits‑all nor force an immediate one‑step fix," Zhang Hui, director of
the State Taxation Administration's Beijing 12366 tax payment service center,
said.
