Social Security in UK and China

In UK, the department of Work and Pensions agencies is in charge of managing social security system which can provide benefits for British people. The social security is to give benefits to workers who pay contributions to the National Insurance Fund and income tax system. Furthermore, the contributory system gives relatively low state retirement pensions for employed women at 60 and men at 65; maternity pay for pregnant working women; sick pay or incapacitybenefit for people who are absent from work because of illness or other reasons. However, the young unemployed between 16-18 are now ineligible for benefits until they are 18 and must follow training or education programmes. For British government, social security is very expensive and will become more so as the population ages and as the numbers of the sick, poor, disadvantaged and unemployed persist.

On the other hand, in China, Government provides the sickness benefit, unemployment benefit, pension benefit and housing benefit, however housing benefit is not compulsoty benefit. As usual, people can receive their pension for employed women at 55 and men at 60.

These benefits are better for people to work in China and UK.

British Media

There are three main components about British Media which include TV, radio, newspapers and magazines.

Television：





1 The BBC networks (Channels: BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, CBBC, CBeebies, BBC News 24 and BBC Parliament)


2 The commercial networks


3 Cable


4 Digital


5 Teletext and interactive services 6 Regulation





British National broadcasters：





1 BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)


2 two national television channels (with national and regional sub-divisions)


3 five national radio stations


4 Cable and digital TV channels


5 40+ local radio stations


6 Global enterprises in both television and radio, a broadcast monitoring service 6 Europe's most visited content web site





The most popular British radio stations:





1 Clare FM


2 Anna Livia


3 Live 95


4 Welsh Radio International


5 Imperial College radio


6 Capital FM7 BBC Radio





Newspapers :





mass market tabloids: (e.g. The Sun)


middle-market tabloids (e.g. the Daily Mail)


quality broadsheets (e.g. The Times)