大众商务（下半月）
大衆商務（下半月）
대음상무（하반월）
POPULAR BUSINESS
2010年
12期
191-192
,共2页
insurance%life ad health insurance%property and liability insurance
China and the United States are two powerful countries in economy. However, people in these two countries have completely different preferences for insurance policies. In 2005, the insurance density of China was $53.5, and the insurance depth of China was 2.7%, compared to $3,900 and 8.9% of the United States. Besides, the world average insurance depth and density were $469.6 and 8.06% only in 2003.Since the Lloyd' s founded in London in 1688, the world' s insurance industry has developed at a rapid speed. However, the Chinese government really took a step to explore the insurance market in 1980' s.Since now, there are only fifty-two commercial insurance companies in china, compared to thousands of hundreds of insurance corporations in Japan and the United States. In addition, the four hundred fifty-nine billion total assets cannot even compare with that of one of the single world top fifty insurance entities.
