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The book provides an account ofthe latest developmentsinchildren’s welfarein China. Contributors look at improvements to policies to assistant protect orphans, children with serious diseases ordisability, identify the key features of the children’s welfare sector, analyze challenges the sector faces, especially at the ground level, such as institutional deficiencies and service-provision inadequacies. The book also contains suggestions for how best to build a modern children’s welfare system in China that is functionally commensurate with the country’s social and economic development level.