The Study Of Urban Social Assistance

To construct the harmonious society has becoming the strategy of fourth Plenum of the 16th CPC Central Committee and also has got a common consensus among the Government and the society. It is the fundamental request for us to solve all kinds of conflicts and social problems between social classes. With the rapid urbanization and transform of China's social structure , accompanies the broadened gap between the rich and the poor, it is worthy of paying more attention to the security of the impoverished class.Social assistance is one of the big-three supports of modern social security, and it is also an important work for the government to help the poor to settle the basic livelihood. The main system of social assistance in urban areas in China is the minimum living standard security system which has the typical characteristic by it's comprehensive and systematicness. As a typical case on the theory and practice of social assistance, Baixia District has done a lot of work and the following researches focusing on summing up it's concrete experiences and measures.The social assistance in urban areas in China is now undergoing the transition from the governments' security to the society's security, and it also encountered unprecedented challenges by the reforms on institutions, modes and procedures. The reconstruction of institutions should be the key point of social assistances and the idea of which should turn to way of whole-people-supporting. The target of social assistance must be ensureing the basic livelihood of the people, solve all kinds of social conflicts, maintain social justice and to build a ultimate safety net in social security.