Category Archive For "Insurance"
Shanghai and Beijing Maternity Costs 2018
Families need to keep focused on the bottom line these days. While in China the middle class has been expanding for some time, there is still a trend in the developed world that has seen wages in some places stagnate. As well, worries about bubble economies and the potential for inflation are always floating around …
How to choose insurance in China: understanding your health insurance options
As your grandparents may often lament, things were often much simpler in their day. There was only one store to buy your groceries from, one telephone company that looked after your phone line, and health insurance was a basic form of “disability insurance” that covered mainly occupational accidents and fatalities. Modern insurance has developed, like …
Property insurance in China: How to ensure that your business has always got the goods
China is certainly not a safe haven from disaster. Such a large country is bound to have calamity of various scales strike every single day. Sure, such events in most people’s minds will be mundane mishaps like a traffic accident or a slip-and-fall, but China is home to some very large disasters each year that …
Eczema in China: study finds breastfeeding reduces risk in children
Red skin, itchy and inflamed. Eczema can be a frustrating skin condition to live with for anyone, let alone young children. When it comes to eczema in China, rates of diagnosis of atopic dermatitis (AD) has been growing. The prevalence of cases in children aged 6 to 20 years was only 0.7% in 2000, however …
Insurance in the sharing economy
If you live in a developed society today, there is a good chance that you have done your part, whether big or small, to contribute to the sharing economy – perhaps without even realizing. In case you don’t know, the sharing economy refers to the new business paradigm we are now experiencing in which people …