The Social Security Thoughts Of "the Third Way" In Contemporary Western

The social security thoughts of the "third way" in contemporary Western are to adapt to the world's dramatic changes of economy, politics and culture. They mainly include: the thought of in social participations, which will achieve the diversification of social security through the participations of various social organizations, enterprises, social groups, communities, families and individuals; the thought of the unity in rights and obligations, which will reduce the dependency of citizens on social welfare through the cultivation of responsibilities; the thought of pre-defense, which will avoid the passive response to remedial policies of the party and the state's fiscal policy by eliminating risks at source; the thought of equality in opportunities, which will enable the people enjoy equal social protection and social welfare through the introduction of employment, education and training and other positive social security measures, so that reaching the balance of the equality of opportunities and equality of results; the thought of combination in efficiency and equity, which combine the traditional left-wing principles of social justice and the right-wing's efficiency principles to maximize the effectiveness of social security.These new thoughts of the"third way"in social security achieve the shift from the equality of objective results into the concept of equality, from direct material given into indirect help, from results compensation into the development of human resources. Although these thoughts assimilated some reasonable factors from the Party of the traditional social democracy and conservatism, their essence is self-improvement in capitalism. We are building socialism with Chinese characteristics. It is necessary to refer to the reasonable factors of the social security thoughts of the "third way": to reduce the pressures on the government through the community participation; to achieve social fairness and justice by the unity of rights and obligations; to achieve sustainable development of society through the investments of human resources; to realize a higher level of social security through the combination of efficiency and equity. At present, China is in an important historical period of deepening the reform and opening up. It is an important guiding significance for the construction and improvement of social security system with Chinese characteristics in critically inheriting the useful elements of social security in western developed countries.