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Working visit to China: social security agreement
Alain Berset begins in Ningxia province: a village where migrants have been resettled, the cave dwellings of the loess plateau, the fight against desertification.
In Beijing, he signs with the Minister of Culture, Luo Shugang, a declaration of intent opening negotiations on a cultural agreement. On 30 September, he signs with Yin Weimin, Minister of Human Resources and Social Security, an agreement exempting posted workers for up to six years from paying contributions in the host country. Some 600 Swiss companies employ more than 200,000 people in China.
He then holds talks with Vice-Premier Ma Kai on social security and on adapting pension systems to ageing. At the Sino-Swiss Business Awards of the Chamber of Commerce, he speaks about innovation: we know why the apple falls, but not yet how innovation comes about.
Monday 28 September 2015 — Ningxia
- Visit to a village of resettled migrants, Tongxin County
- Visit to cave dwellings on the loess plateau
Tuesday 29 September 2015 — Ningxia and Beijing
- Visit to a site combating desertification
- Meeting with Luo Shugang, Minister of Culture, and signing of a declaration of intent
- Sino-Swiss Business Awards: speech by Alain Berset
Wednesday 30 September 2015 — Beijing
- Meeting with Yin Weimin, Minister of Human Resources and Social Security, and signing of the social security agreement
- Meeting with the media
- Meeting with Ma Kai, Vice-Premier
- Chinese National Day reception at the Great Hall of the People
Speeches on this site
- Sino-Swiss Business Awards 2015 (French-language page)
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