After being abolished for over three decades, the spring of social work in China finally arrived in the early 1990s. Recognizing that the contribution of social work can make for the building of a socialist harmonious society, the Chinese government is dedicated to building a grand team of social workers in China. By 2020, there will be three million social workers to serve society. While celebrating the arrival of this new era for social work, concerned parties dare not underestimate the difficulties they will encounter in this immensely challenging mission. This paper describes the road leading to the arrival of the spring of social work in China with special focus on the challenges that threaten the accomplishment of this mission. A consortium cum collaboration model in which the quadruple-partnership (government, schools of social work, NGOs and other related institutions/individuals) for the promotion of a tri-foci development (service, education and research) in China is proposed as one way of addressing the challenges. With a healthy and balanced development of social work, a harmonious, humane and just society may arrive soon.

在經歷了長達30年的停滯之後，中國社會工作的春天終於在20世紀90年代來臨了。在意識到社會工作能夠為社會和諧做出巨大貢獻之後，中國政府開始致力於建設一支宏大的社會工作人才隊伍。到2020年，中國將會有300萬的社會工作者服務於社會。在慶賀社會工作新時代到來的同時，相關各方也不敢低估在這個巨大的挑戰中所面臨的困難。這篇文章描述了通向中國社會工作春天的道路，同時特別關注了影響這個任務完成的各種挑戰。文章提出了一個為了推動中國三個焦點（服務、教育和科研）發展的四維（政府、社會工作學校，非政府組織還有其他相關機構/個人）聯合和合作模式，以此來應對中國的這些挑戰。伴隨著一個健康和均衡的社會工作的發展，一個和諧的、人道的、公平的社會即將到來。

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