On The Rural Subsistence Security System From The Perspective Of Citizen Participation

China is a large agricultural nation. If our country intends to maintain a long-term, stable and rapid development, the farmers' subsistence security should be dealt with properly as it is the center and the foundation of all agriculture-related problems. If it cannot be resolved properly, it will lead to a series of industrial and social problems. Therefore, our nation must set up the rural subsistence security system to guarantee the farmer's minimum living standard.It is not to say that everything will be fine after the system was established. Only good and suitable system can solve the problem well. However, far from solving the problem, bad and unsuitable system will increase or create new problems. So the subsistence security system in our country must be built on good and suitable foundation.Since the second half of 2007, our country has formally carried out the establishment of the rural subsistence security system in the whole country. Although this system has been established comprehensively in the whole country and played a role correspondingly, it has been unable to meet the requirements put forward when it was designed and has been far from the expectation of our party and nation. It still needs to be studied and perfected.Basing on the carding of the theoretical research of this field at home and abroad and with the citizen participation as the breakthrough, this dissertation mainly uses the method of empirical method to study our nation's rural subsistence security system, which makes people understand the value, historical context, the process of establishment, the practical condition and the existing problems of this system more clearly. Thus we can analyze the significant functions and internal logic that citizen participation has played in establishing a good rural subsistence security system.This dissertation argues that the values of studying the rural subsistence security system are as follows:firstly, it meets the demands of realizing the improve people's livelihood and the strategic development of social undertakings, as the system is a part of them in modern times. To implement the needs of strategic development of social undertakings constantly and comprehensively, our country must work hard on the construction of rural subsistence security system, which thus directs it to accomplish its historical task better. Secondly, it meets our nation's demands of developing market economy. The rural subsistence security system is the inevitable outcome of the development of market economy. In order to develop the market economy, our country has to deal with farmer's issues, namely striking for a balance among country, market and farmers. And the balance is based on the study and establishment of a good rural subsistence security system. Thirdly, it meets the demands of speeding up the urbanization process. The acceleration of urbanization process is bound to make a lot of farmers losing the land that they live on. And the basic approach to solve this problem is to establish a good rural subsistence security system so as to make the land-lost peasants no longer feel frightened and make the urbanization and industrialization process develop steadily, rapidly and healthily. Fourthly, it meets the demands of eliminating the segmentation of urban-rural dualistic structure. The practical structure of urban-rural dualistic segmentation has seriously affected today's development of economic society. And the study and establishment of a good rural subsistence security system can accelerate to eliminate this structure. Fifthly, it meets the demands of alleviating poverty and escaping from poverty. When the conventional development-oriented poverty alleviation method has applied to a certain extent, it will lose its value of comprehensive application. Then it is necessary to transit the way of poverty alleviation from the institutional perspective, that is, to study and establish a good rural subsistence security system. Sixthly, it meets the demands of country's compensation for farmers. Although our country cannot give farmers too much when it developed to a certain extent, but at least it should give farmers corresponding compensation, namely the study and establishment of a good rural subsistence security system, as they have sacrificed a great deal for the development of our country. Seventhly, it meets the demand of social fairness and justice. Farmers have made great contributions to the development of our nation. But they haven't share the achievement of the development well, which does not match the social fairness and justice. And the way to achieve the fairness and justice is to study and establish a good rural subsistence security system. Eighthly, it meets the demand of retaining the authority of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China. The Constitution provides farmer's right to live when life is difficult. However, there must be a concrete policy carrier to carry out the provisions, otherwise, it will fail to achieve the Constitution's authority and impair its authority. And the study and establishment of a good rural subsistence security system can unfold the constitution's morality and justice and carry forward the spirit of the constitution. It can also carry out the provisions and retain the authority of the Constitution. Ninthly, it meets the demand of harmonious development of society. China is a large agricultural nation and the agricultural population accounts for an absolute majority of the total population, so farmer's affinity and cohesive force to the country is very important as it relates to the country's stability and harmony. To maintain harmonious development of the society, the study and establishment of a good rural subsistence security system is a thing that can never be neglected. Tenthly, it meets the demand of establishing and perfecting the social security system. The rural subsistence security system is the lowest level of protection among the rural social security systems. It is the last protecting net of life safety. Only by establishing the rural subsistence security system at first can the basis of the social security systems in rural areas be consolidated. Therefore, in order to establish and perfect the social security systems, we must study and establish a good rural subsistence security system at first.This dissertation argues that China's researches on its rural subsistence security system is still at a primary stage on the whole at present. Most of these researches are considered to be broad and repetitive. There are still many blank in this research field, especially being lack of systematic and in-depth research. In other words, our country's research on this field still has a long way to go to achieve perfection.This dissertation discusses how to improve the rural subsistence security system in theory. It justifies and deduces theoretical assumptions through empirical evidence and policy process of rural subsistence security system. The study's overall structure frame is divided into two parts:an introduction and its subject. Besides its introduction, the whole article consists of six chapters, of which the sixth chapter both has the demonstrational form with 2 to 5 chapters and generalizes the overall dissertation.The first chapter illustrates the theory support for exploration on rural subsistence security system and its operational model. With different stages of rural subsistence security system's formulation (longitudinal steps) as longitudinal research line and citizen participation degree in various stages of rural subsistence security system formulation as horizontal research line, this dissertation takes the rural subsistence security system, of which the "cross-shaped" structure formed by the vertical and horizontal as its main body, as its research framework. And through taking other theories as auxiliary research line upon this basis, it completes an integrated rural subsistence security system research as a whole.The second chapter to the sixth chapter respectively works out a systematic objective display of rural subsistence security system in accordance with the policy process. And these chapters also launch an empirical analysis of citizen participation in each policy link. The sixth chapter generalizes the whole dissertation and makes a normative theory analysis, pointing out the logical relationship between rural subsistence security system construction, government and citizen behavior. This dissertation holds that government dominating behavior and serious lack of effective citizen participation are the root of various problems arising in the real execution of our country's current rural subsistence security system. It should be mentioned that government behavior and effective citizen participation are the two basic inseparable elements contributing to a good construction of our country's rural subsistence security system. Meanwhile, this chapter also prospects the future development and researches of our country's rural subsistence security system. This dissertation tries to achieve the innovation from following aspects:firstly, this dissertation studies on typical case. To be specifically, it drafts ideas of universal significance through making an investigation as well as in-depth, detailed and comprehensive display and interpretation on the supply, operations and performance of Shangqiu rural subsistence security system. If the application of case study in Science of Public Management can be a sort of characteristic, then this dissertation's application of typical case study in rural subsistence security system researches should also has its certain originality. Secondly, this dissertation investigates the rural subsistence security system from the perspective of citizen participation. Along with this, it attempts to study rural subsistence security system under the direction of taking Science of Public Management as the main body while blending it together with various subjects such as Politics, Economics and Sociology, Law, Literature, etc. Thirdly, it replies how to establish China's rural subsistence security system under the condition of socialist market economy through empirical research method. Fourthly, we can obtain a clarified illustration about the ins and outs of rural subsistence security system's germination, emergence and foundation, guiding landmark of its development and perfection as well as its theory ideological basis since the founding of the People's Republic of China. This dissertation endeavors to gain a deep, systematic, comprehensive and overall demonstration about the rural subsistence security system; to transcend the once isolated and separated research situation which just likes scattering pearls; and to make a contribution to academy. Fifthly, it introduces network management concept to the future construction of the rural subsistence security system, which may be a beneficial and pioneering exploration in this field. Sixthly, it applies bottom-up and up-bottom researches dynamically to probes into the construction issues of rural subsistence security system in our country. Especially it applies the skills of exploring from the minimum parts of things or from the most basic social grassroots and its minimum department to its top in the bottom-up method.