The Investigation Report About Old-age Security In Xiuning County Rural Areas

Aging of population is a product of human economic and social development that has come to a certain stage. Inversion between urban areas and rural areas is one of the important characteristics of the aging of population in our country. And this is particularly prominent in Xiuning County of Anhui Province. Xiuning County went into aging society in1998, earlier than other parts of the province. It is a county with a great number of old people, more than65%of which live in the rural areas. The situation of aging is very serious. Under the circumstances of undeveloped economy and imperfect endowment insurance system, the rural areas will be the focus and also the most difficult part of the endowment issue of Xiuning County. Under the current economic condition, except for a few developed parts, the vast majority of the regions in the county still follow the traditional endowment model of "family endowment and land endowment+social assistance support". However, with acceleration of the aging of population, constant change of economic system, miniaturization of family structures and increasing innovation in people’s perceptions, the traditional model of family endowment and land endowment is greatly impacted, while the new rural endowment insurance system begins to take effect under the government’s planning.This thesis firstly discusses the characteristics of aging of population in Xiuning County and the challenges it has brought to the existing rural endowment insurance system. Secondly, on the basis of field researches, the thesis gives an analysis of the basic composition of the current rural endowment insurance system of Xiuning County and some problems of the system. Then the thesis does a thorough analysis about the root causes of these problems through consulting a great deal of information. Finally, the thesis puts forward the idea of setting up a diversified rural endowment insurance system with family endowment as the primary one and social endowment as the complementary one. The collective community endowment will be actively promoted and the abilities of the old people to support themselves will be improved, thus better coping with the challenges brought by aging of population in the county.