The Comparative Study Of China's Local Social Assistance Legislation

Social assistance is the last safety net of the citizens.Its level of development is a nation's symbol of civilization and progress also an important task to build our harmonious society. In view of Chinese social assistance's legislation,this paper has selected five typical cityts: Lanzhou, Shanghai, Chongqing, Wuhan, Tianjin to study these problems.The first chapter introduces the evolution of social assistance legislation. China's social assistance has a long history,but it's just for the thoughts of sympathy and comopassion. Now it's developing more and more perfect and embarking on the path of the legal system. In particular, now China is developing market economy, the enterprises is in the process of reforming, social assistance can maintain social stability and promoting social harmony and orderly .It plays an important role in our society.Chapter II analysis the five cities'legislative jurisdiction and the targeted social assistance people.Because the central authorities absence a unified social assistance legislation and social assistance was started in local governments.The regulations are formulated by local government, how to coordinate the Legislative power between Central and local government,how to keep their unity but don't ultra vires,At the same time pay attention to specific circumstances of local government,These problems are all need to disscuss.Chapter III analysis the five typical cities'legislation about the target pour people to discuss the lever of rescue standard and the criteria for determining the target population which is suit to Chinese condition, it has a special character"announce tor three times".It's very different from western countries.The fourth chapter discussed the sources of social assistance fund.In the beginning of this policy, presented several typical kind of fund pattern.there were the pattern of all levels of finances to share; the central allocation and the place co-funding pattern; also has the pattern which the government and the enterprise share together, actually which kind of pattern most suits depend on special details of local governments. Therefore local authorities have the same place in implements and also have their unqre features. Through studies to these conditions to discovers the present characteristic and the good points, hope to give some help to Chinese social assistance legislation.