On The Coordination Development Of The Urban-rural Minimum Living Security System In China

With China's exploring minimum living security system, the binary system in urban and rural areas exposes more and more deficiencies. Fairness has already become the most urgent appeal of rural residents. The research on the coordination development of minimum living security system in urban and rural areas can enrich the social security theory, ease off social contradiction, and assist to implement the grand blueprint of the party's construction of social security system.The breakthrough of China's urban-rural social security system coordination development lies in the coordination development of social assistance system, and the key to the coordination development of social assistance system is the coordination development of the minimum living security system. In this paper, the author presents different paths of rural-urban minimum living security system, and summarizes the characteristics of the system in China. The differences in law system, security standards, payment level, capital investment and financing mode in rural-urban minimum living security system are caused by rural-urban binary social and economic structure, different purposes in the context of economic transformation, traditional ideas of land and family security in rural areas and its anti-poverty methods and so forth. Rural minimum living security system lags far behind the urban's which discounts the fairness in minimum living security system and blocks the coordination development of the minimum living security system in both rural and urban areas.In the setting of our nation's promoting coordinating development of urban-rural areas which is caused by accelerating industrialization, it is inevitable to coordinate the urban-rural minimum living security system. The development of the system depends on various conditions:building a harmonious society especially the establishment of people-oriented administrative notion; the development and improvement of the urban-rural minimum living security system; the economic output increases continually; the transformation of economic development model; the improvement of financial expenditure structure and the further development of non-governmental organization. These provide political, economic and social conditions of the coordination development of minimum living security system in urban and rural areas.The United States and Sweden design a unified social assistance system directly for the whole people, while Japan adopts different minimum living standards according to different economic conditions and living levels. Shanghai and Zhejiang coordinate the rural-urban minimum living security system through legislation which provides an important reference for the construction of the system in China. On the basis of the construction conditions and the experiences in home and abroad, the objectives of the system should be:from a binary urban-rural minimum living security system to a unified one with different standard, and then to a unified system with same standard.In view of the unbalanced economic development in rural and urban areas and different requirements from the minimum living security, it is imposible to apply a unified standard for rural and urban residents. In the primary stage of the development, a unified system with different standards can be carried out. The following measures can be adopted:coordinating the legislation of rural-urban minimum living security system, integrating the management system and operational mechanism, building reasonable burden-sharing mechanism, paying attention to the relationships within the system, and coordinating the system with other security systems.