Study On The Implementation Of The Minimum Living Allowance In Rural Areas

During the process of the socialist construction with Chinese characteristics, issues concerning agriculture, rural areas and farmers have always been the focus of our Party and country and bear on the overall construction and development of the society. The Party and the government are pondering all the time to find out how to make farmers live better, especially to ensure the basic life of poor residents in rural areas, by which the vast residents in rural areas can enjoy the significant fruit of the reform and opening up and the stable development in rural areas can be better maintained. The establishment of the system of minimum living allowance in rural areas institutionally provides a way to ensure the basic life of poverty-stricken farmers in rural areas. Since the minimum living allowance system was established in rural areas all over the country, great achievement has been obtained, and with allowance recipients increasing every year, poverty-stricken people in rural areas can maintain their basic life. However, due to various factors, many problems appear in the implementation of the system of minimum living allowance in rural areas. How to understand these problems? Finding the reasons and countermeasures for these problems is very meaningful in better promoting the implementation of the policy.Relying on the existing research and taking W county in Henan province as an example, the thesis makes a further study on the implementation of the system of minimum living allowance in rural areas, aiming to offer a beneficial reference for the effective implementation of the system and the final smooth implementation in the whole country. The body of the thesis begins with the introduction of the overall situation of the implementation of the system. Then according to interviews and literature research, the thesis concludes that in the process of the implementation of the system in W county there appear many problems such as difficulty and indexation in determining who should be entitled to minimum living allowance, low allowance standard, low level of informatization management and weak right awareness of allowance recipients, the reasons of which are also discussed. Finally, the thesis, summing up the experiences of Shangdong province, Guizhou province and Dengzhou city in Henan province in implementing the system, puts forward feasible policy proposals to improve the implementation of the system of minimum living allowance in rural areas from three aspects including improving the frame system of the system itself, improving the management in implementing the system and improving legislation.