Beijing – INPS Special Commissioner Tiziano Treu signed his contract for the European Project “Social Protection Reform Project – SPrP” with the European Delegation in Beijing. The signing, arrived at the conclusion of a negotiating phase that lasted a year, kicks off the program activities. The project aims to provide the Chinese government authorities with specialist support for the drafting of the social protection system reform, and will be developed on three main areas of activity: design and implementation of social security reforms and policies; capacity building for financial management and supervision of funds for social security; improvement of the legal framework and assistance and social security policies. The goal is to build a mechanism for dialogue and information exchange between EU Member States and China. (9Colonne)