Diversifying investments could help social security fund grow

FOR THE FIRST TIME in recent years, the growth in income of the social security fund exceeded the growth in expenditure last year, according to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. Beijing News commented on Tuesday:

It is progress that has proved hard to come by. Hopefully, it marks a turning point in the management of the fund.

On the one hand, it indicates that as long as the measures are appropriate and the supervision is effective, there is no need to be too pessimistic about the prospects for increasing the social security fund in both size and value in the future.