Full text of China's Policy Paper on the EU(5)

X. Social, Health, Judicial and Administrative Cooperation

Enhance China-EU cooperation on human resources and social security, expand exchanges on employment, skill development, social security and public administration management, and strengthen coordination on international labor issues.

Support the establishment of the China-EU Public Policy Dialogue, hold the China-EU High-Level Public Policy Forum, invite European political professionals, government officials as well as policy research and consulting personnel to China for exchange and dialogue, and carry out research cooperation on public policy.

Strengthen China-EU cooperation in old-age care, services for the children and people with disabilities, as well as charity and social assistance, support EU companies and member states to invest in old-age service industry in China.

Encourage China-EU economic and social exchanges and cooperation, and increase mutual understanding between people from all social sectors in China and the EU.

Enhance China-EU health cooperation, improve information exchange and sharing on major public health incidents, strengthen communication on the technologies for the prevention and control of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, and carry out cooperation on laboratory testing, diagnosis and treatment, as well as vaccine development.

Improve the capability for jointly countering global health challenges including antibiotic resistance and tobacco control. Strengthen experience exchange on the reform of the medical and healthcare system, and share experience on medical payment system, health security system and e-health. Enhance international cooperation on food safety standard and risk assessment system. Promote China-EU cooperation on traditional Chinese medicine.

China will continue to implement the China-EU legal and judicial cooperation program and expand such cooperation on the basis of equality, mutual respect and non-interference in internal affairs, deepen exchanges in judicial reform and other priority areas, explore judicial cooperation in anti-corruption, combating organized transnational crimes, extradition, transfer of sentenced persons and criminal assets recovery, and promote experience sharing on legal supervision.

Advance China-EU cooperation on police law enforcement, implement the five-year police training cooperation project, expand exchanges on policing administration, public security management, law enforcement regulation, criminal investigation technologies and the fight against organized crimes by organizing training courses, visits and seminars, increase the mutual trust between the two sides, and lay a solid foundation for jointly combating terrorism, economic, cyber and drug-related crimes, organized illegal immigration and other serious organized transnational crimes.

Enhance China-EU cooperation on disaster prevention and reduction and emergency management. China is willing to conduct a policy dialogue with the EU to learn about and draw on its experience and resources in the development of emergency management capability and mechanism, and promote the implementation of the China-EU emergency management project and the building of China-EU Emergency Management College.