A Study On The Welfare Plural Supply Of Rural Elderly

As the inevitable outcome of the development of human society to a certain stage, the increase of the elderly population presents a serious challenge to the aging supporting problem. In the context of building a new socialist countryside and urban-rural integration, how to care the growing number of old people in rural area gradually draws more and more concerns all over the society. This problem is not only influenced by the rural-urban dualistic social welfare system, but also by the real shock of young population outflow and the rural land abandonment. Squeezed in the population aging and the weakening of family support, the aging problems in rural China stands out exceptional.This paper takes the rural elderly as the research subject, and takes the welfare plural supply of rural elderly as the research problem. Study on the welfare plural supply shows us a realistic life picture of the rural elderly. Such research will not only help us understand how to meet the growing welfare needs of the rural elderly, ease the pressure in the welfare supply of the rural elderly, and provide the rural elderly with a treasure sense of security, belonging, and worthiness, but also help the government improve the rural elderly welfare system, which will lead to the urban-rural integration of social welfare, and guarantee the harmony and stability of rural society.This paper chooses the rural elderly aged above60in a Q Village of Southeast Chongqing minority for the survey, uses the depth interview and participant observation method to collect research data, and employs the content analysis and secondary analysis approaches to analyze the research data. By using the welfare triangular theory on the welfare plural supply of rural elderly and analyzing from three aspects:the state, the market, and the family, this study will picture the rural elderly welfare status quo, and explore the plight of welfare faced by the rural elderly and their influencing factors.This study found that the welfare supply of rural elderly showing a non-balanced development in the government, the market, the family level. Although the family’s ability and function in the welfare supply of rural elderly is weakening, the family still perform as the basic form and a dominant position in the welfare supply of rural elderly. With the decline in the status of family supporting, the state achieve the government’s responsibility regression in the welfare supply of rural elderly by a universal benefits pension scheme. But the low degree of welfare provision makes the state states in a weak statehood in the welfare supply of rural elderly. As a complementary welfare supply of rural elderly, the market is gradually favored by the rural elderly. The technical welfare and market-oriented pension insurance are recognized by rural elderly and become a new way to achieve the self-support for the rural elderly. The rural elderly willingness and financial ability to buy endowment insurance provides a rare opportunity for the market-oriented welfare of rural elderly. The funding and policy instability and market-oriented cooperation mechanism which is difficult to develop bring challenge to us at the same time.Rural Elderly need diverse subjects to provide welfare. State, market, family, neither of them can independently provide welfare support to meet the welfare needs of the rural elderly. To form a benefits package in the rural elderly welfare provision and to form the combined benefits by multiple subjects and multilateral collaboration are the measures should be taken for meeting the welfare needs of the rural elderly.