The afternoon of November 8, 2013, at the invitation of the Guangdong provincial Party Committee Organization Department, Deputy Secretary General of the International Institute for strategic studies, the European Research Center Director Cai Hong in the Guangdong provincial Party Committee Organization Department "humanities forum" made "the welfare state: the value, the glory and the plight of" Europe special report.

In the report, Cai Hong on the "welfare", "reform" and "Enlightenment" three words, using a large number of detailed information and data, respectively, how good the European welfare European welfare, why European welfare is bad, why European welfare reform, welfare reform in Europe there is in Europe, the welfare system is the question of how to reform and change the European welfare system how to do a comprehensive, in-depth and systematic report.

Cai Hong pointed out that Europe is the world's earliest proposed welfare concept, the earliest to establish welfare state, the largest welfare project, the highest level of welfare, the most extensive coverage of welfare areas. She was the first to Sweden, Britain, France, Greece as an example to introduce the basic content and characteristics of the Scandinavia model, the Anglo Saxon model, Continental pattern, Mediterranean welfare system, depicts the European welfare state as nationals from the cradle to the grave, the father like welfare panorama. Then it analyzes the economic, political and social roots of the European welfare state after the industrial revolution, especially after World War ii. She pointed out that the pursuit of fairness is the unity of efficiency and fairness is the basic value of the European welfare state built, is proud of European capitalism in Europe compared to the American capitalist system advantage. However, in the background of weak economic growth, low birth rate and aging population in China, high welfare not only makes the government's financial unsustainable, but also leads to "welfare diseases" of the people". In European welfare countries, efficiency and equity, lifestyle and mode of production are out of balance. Coupled with the impact of economic globalization and the contradiction between rigid welfare and electoral politics, the welfare states in Europe are in the predicament of no reform, no reform, who can not go to Taiwan, who reform and who will step down. The reason lies in the fact that in Europe, the core values of justice can not be touched, the institutional advantages of European capitalism can not be lost, the welfare of the people can not be touched by cheese, and the complicated procedures of reform can not be turned around. Although it is difficult, there are still many national leaders hold pressure on welfare reform. With the theory of "the third road" or "middle way" as the foundation, the UK, Sweden, Germany and other countries followed the reform from the construction of the welfare state to the construction of social investment state, from a simple emphasis on welfare is the basic rights of citizens to "no responsibility, no right", from the government to provide work to help the government to improve the ability to work from the high tax tax system to clean up the basic path to lower the tax rate. A large number of data show that the reforms in these countries have played an important and active role in promoting economic development and improving the welfare of the people.

Finally, Cai Hong pointed out that, compared with the high welfare of European countries, China is not welfare too much, but welfare is too small. During the current price period, China should improve the welfare system, provide basic welfare for the people, help the people achieve the right to live with dignity, and create conditions for the freedom, prosperity and happy life of the people. On the other hand, as the world's eighty-ninth largest per capita GDP, China should draw lessons from Europe, prevent welfare advance and welfare dependency, and build a welfare system that matches the mode of production and economic development. On the basis of realizing the sustainable and coordinated development of the economy, let the people share the fruits of economic development.

Two hours of reporting, informative, rigorous, rational and lively, no one left the field.

It is reported that this year, the provincial Party Committee Organization Department for the "cadre quality humanities forum" selected six reports, the report is fifth this year.