Fafo has been conducting activities in China since 1994 and developed close and constructive cooperation with Chinese institutions. Fafo’s research in China focuses on social, economic and political developments with particular attention to distribution, vulnerability, social sustainability and the impact of social transition for households. We also engage in policy analysis and dialogue with Chinese policymakers and researchers.
Fafo operates a regional office in Beijing.
Our main cooperating partner in China is the Chinese Academy of Science and Technology for Development (CASTED), a research center under the Ministry of Science and Technology. Fafo also has an agreement with China’s Central Party School to conduct scholarly cooperation on the “Nordic Model” of social organization. Apart from this, Fafo has cooperated with the Peking University (Research Center for Contemporary China, RCCC); the Central Finance and Economy University in Beijing, Nankai University (especially their Yunnan institute in Kunming); and Lanzhou University.
Researchers
Living Conditions and Development in Disaster Areas 2008–2011
Background paper for the World Development Report 2013
Plass til kraftintensiv industri i Norge?
The Chinese Labour Force in a Time of Reform
Zhihong Sa & Jing Liu
Making an invisible care workforce visible: a survey of domestic workers in three cities in ChinaChina Population and Development Studies | 2022 | Open access
Hedda Flatø
Trust is in the air: pollution and Chinese citizens' attitudes towards local, regional and central levels of governmentJournal of Chinese Governance | 2021 | Open access
Kristin Dalen
Welfare and Social Policy in China: Building a New Welfare State | 2020 The Socialist Market Economy in AsiaHuafeng Zhang
Literature Review on Educational Attainment of Migrant Children in ChinaOpen Journal of Social Sciences | 2016 Download JSS_2016072711551764.pdf
Huafeng Zhang
Household vulnerability and economic status during disaster recovery and its determinantsA Case Study after the Wenchuan Earthquake
Natural Hazards | 2016 | Sammendrag / Abstract
Kristin Dalen & Mona Christophersen
Hurtigtutrydding av fattigdomKina skal utrydde fattigdommen på ett år. Koste hva det koste vil | 2020 | Kronikken på ytring.no
Hedda Flatø og Kristin Dalen
China’s Pension Reform: Towards Scandinavian-style universalism? | 2015
