A Research For The Urban Minimum Living Security System In A Positive Welfare Perspective

Urban minimum living security system, as a core part of our new social relief system, has been formally implemented since1999. Urban subsistence allowances has played a crucial role in protecting the fundamental right of the urban poor and in being the last "safety net", as well as in maintaining and promoting a stable and harmonious society.This paper, combined with empirical analysis method and normative analysis method, makes a positive analysis to China’s urban residents’ minimum living security system, aiming at presenting an objective evaluation of the surviving achievement and deficiency of the urban subsistence system, in order to provide some directional reform proposals for the deep and comprehensive improvement of urban subsistence system. This paper reviews the theoretical context of the development of social assistance system, focusing on the minimum living security system both domestic and foreign, and then finds a shortage of our theoretical study on this system. On this basis, based on the perspective of positive welfare, this paper uses qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis approach to the consumption of the urban poor as the starting point. Microscopic impact of this system on recipients reflecting the macroeconomic effects of the system, both from a macro and micro perspective, this paper makes an assessment of the positive effect of urban subsistence allowances system.In the perspective of positive welfare, from three levels:risk-oriented opinion, system objectives, means of implementation, based on the basis of empirical analysis, the research conclusions of this paper are following:the implementation of China’s urban residents’minimum living security system greatly protects the fundamental right to life of urban residents, but it is equivalently obvious that there is a serious lack of positive motivation and development of the system. Specifically, in view of the risks, the shortage is the single subject of the post-intervention, the lack of risk awareness and the inadequate ability to cope with risks. In view of institutional goals, it is quite short-sighted to merely eliminate income poverty, neglecting capability poverty and available capacity deprivation. In terms of the means of implementation, money and material oriented aid fuels welfare dependency and results in a waste of resources. Urban minimum living security system, on the impact of globalization, man-made uncertainty, reflexive modernization, de-traditionalization, and other unforeseen factors, whose "Asylum" ability appeared to be seriously inadequate, should be replaced with a positive welfare system, which is not only to solve precautionary aftercare but to defuse the risk of human exposure, not only to alleviate income poverty but to eliminate the ability poverty as well as rights shortage, and not only to supply recipients with material form and money but trying to help them improve their sustainable ability in order to thoroughly eliminate poverty.