Private healthcare needs to be supplemented (and China is catching up in this area); public hospitals basically just save lives rather than treat illness. Pension contributions are on the higher side, but what you've paid in (including supplementary payments from yourself) can be relatively freely managed through personal investments, which is pretty decent. In terms of work, after the probation period, you basically sign something akin to a lifetime employment contract, so it's like being a civil servant. The drawbacks are the significant wealth gap (when buying a house, the most important thing to consider is property management service—the property management company is essentially your decades-long after-sales service after purchase, so if you have money, you could invest in property management companies). Social segmentation is quite pronounced; in poorer neighborhoods, you might see theft and even public defecation. Also, housing is expensive (a bit cheaper than Beijing or Shanghai), and rents are high.Original: https://joohnsmith.com/fromchinatouk4.html