At This Stage China's Fiscal Policy To Support Vulnerable Groups

We have gained great achievements in politics, economy, and culture inthe period from Planned Economy to Market Economy and will makemore progress in the twenty-first Century due to the Economic SystemReform. However, our social relationships have been changed in thereform and social members are facing a situation of the division,rearrangement and combination. As a negative result of Reform and Open,Vulnerable Groups have come forth and become a unique and commonproblem in our country. We should concern and solve this problem inorder to strengthen the reform, maintain the social stability and acceleratethe economic development.The author will mainly discuss four aspects in the paper:Analyze the social and economic influence of Vulnerable Groups. In thischapter, the author will define Vulnerable Groups. Then the author willanalyze its social characters: low income in economy, poverty in living,little influence in politics and frangibility in mentality. At last the authorwill discuss its influence on our social stability and economicdevelopments: firstly it will affect the stability of the nation and societyand go against developing the socialistic harmonious society; secondly itwill hinder the increase of economy and go against the prosperity of thesocialistic market economy.Analyze financial policy functions of Vulnerable Groups. In the chapterthe author will discuss reasons, so this part is one of the paper's emphases.Vulnerable Groups exists in any ages and any societies, but it containsdifferent contents in different social phases. The author mainly studies thestatus of Chinese Vulnerable Groups in the present. Vulnerable Groupswill be divided into four parts: Physiological Vulnerable Groups,Unemployed Vulnerable Groups, Poor Farmer Groups and Urban Farmerand Worker Groups. Reasons of forming Vulnerable Groups are variousbecause its complicated structure. In a word, the Economic SystemReform will bring about its existence. The System Change is the basicreason of its formation and existence. A series of incomplete systems,including the Employment System, the Income Distribution System andthe Social Guarantee System, have led to its formation since the Reformand Open period. As we know, it's not enough to depend on VulnerableGroups' own power or social relieving abilities to help them. We mustdepend on the government. The government should take some measures:firstly set up a suit of law system according to the modern MarketEconomy's need to ensure the Groups' survival and development;secondly draw up and choose some public policies to support them;thirdly provide them with social services and protections by publicservice functions. Economical policy tools to help Vulnerable Groupsinclude finance, banking, investment, project and so on. Among thesepolicies finance is one of the most important aspects. It has threefunctions by establish financial income and expenses plans and revenuepolicies: the budget policies, the revenue policies, the transfer policies.Analyze financial policy effects about helping Vulnerable Groups up inour country. The author will point out main problems of our presentfinancial policies about Vulnerable Groups by analyzing them. Financialpolicies, as an important tool, make functions by the government budget,preferential revenue and transfer payment. Apparently, our financialpolicies have performed active functions in the process of helpingVulnerable Groups, but there are some problems to solve when they arecarried out. These problems mainly exist in the Vulnerable Groups'employment, social income disparity and Social Welfare System.Suggest some financial policies to help Vulnerable Groups up. In thechapter the author will solve problems above-mentioned, so this part isalso one of the paper's emphases. In the first section, the author willanalyze financial policies to help Vulnerable Groups up in developedcountries and give our administrators some advices. In the second section,the author will put forward some choices of financial expenditure policiesto help Vulnerable Groups up...