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Does China have &quot;parasitism&quot; law prohibiting people from not working?
<p>I did a lot of research answering this Politics.SE question: &quot;<a href="https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/25743/is-china-really-communist/25744#25744">Is China really Communist?</a>&quot;.</p>
<p>I was able to answer most items I decided to research (some of the answers were less intuitive than expected), but one item eluded me, and it's a legal one.</p>
<p>One of Marx's 10 tenets of establishing Communism, was &quot;Equal liability of all to work&quot;. In USSR, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitism_(social_offense)#Soviet_Union" rel="nofollow noreferrer">there was a formal law based on the idea</a>, prohibiting &quot;social parasitism&quot;.</p>
<p>However, I was unable to find any mention of such law in PRC - but not being a lawyer OR speaking any Chinese, it's possible I simply didn't know the right terms to search for. Hence, the question for Law.SE:</p>
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<p><strong>Does [the] People's Republic of China have &quot;parasitism&quot; law prohibiting people from not working or punishing them for not having a job?</strong></p>
<p>I cannot find any such requirement in either the <a href="http://www.asianlii.org/cn/legis/cen/laws/cl104/#2" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Criminal Law</a> or the <a href="http://www.asianlii.org/cn/legis/cen/laws/llotproc353/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Labour Law</a>, but I see that the latter makes two references to providing state benefits to the &quot;<em>unemployed</em>&quot;:</p>
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<p>Article 70</p>
<p>The State shall develop social insurance undertakings, establish a social insurance system, and set up social insurance funds so that laborers may receive assistance and compensations under such circumstances as old age, illness, work-related injury, unemployment and child-bearing.</p>
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<p>And:</p>
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<p>Article 73</p>
<p>Laborers shall, in accordance with the law, enjoy social insurance benefits under the following circumstances:</p>
<p>...</p>
<ul>
<li>(4) unemployment ...</li>
</ul>
<p>...</p>
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<p>The Labour Law also includes this, which coupled with the provision of state benefits for the unemployed, seems to suggest that the PRC do not prohibit &quot;social parasitism&quot; (officially anyway):</p>
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<p>Article 5</p>
<p>The State shall take various measures to promote employment...</p>
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