Towards High-quality Balance:The Path to Optimize the Inclusive Childcare System
The establishment of an inclusive childcare system is an important task to achieve"each child is nurtured"and improve the national economy and people's livelihood.The childcare system in China has experienced nearly a hundred years of development,and is facing new demands at the time with the encouragement of the current fertility policy.In recent years,China has issued a number of supporting policies and normative systems focusing on building an inclusive childcare service system and improving the level of childcare services,highlighting the three basic values of giving priority to universality in terms of underwriting fairness,sufficient supply in terms of diversified needs,and competition and meritocracy in terms of quality assurance.However,in the process of policy implementation,inclusive childcare services have fallen into the practical dilemma of small supply and narrow scope of benefit,mismatch of supply and demand,and unbalanced distribution,as well as large operational difficulties and low service quality.Faced with the internal tension of the current inclusive childcare policy and the dilemma of interests in the development of the childcare service system,future childcare development should be shifted towards the orientation of differential compensation,high-quality balance and local conditions,so as to achieve a high level of inclusive childcare services.