The Research For Ethnic Minority Peasants About The Ways Of Old-age Under Welfare Pluralism

As the crisis of aging population deepens in the21stcentury, old-age care issues havebeen the focus of concern for people around the world. With China being an agriculturalcountry and a country with a large population, its rural population accounts for70%of thewhole population for the time being. Therefore, the elder-care issues concerning Chinesepeasants have become the main and key aspect of aging population crisis. As China is amulti-ethnic country and people of ethnic minorities reside mainly in rural areas where thoseminorities exhibit distinct ethnic features, the settling of the elder-care issues concerningthose minority people is significant both in theory and practice. The reason lies in that thoseissues not only concerns the livelihood of those minorities, but also affect the building of thesocialist harmonious society.The welfare pluralism theory advocated diversification welfare supply meet the needsthat is proposed from welfare crisis in western country. Emphasizing the effection of othersocial parts,not only the government,in order to build a diversified welfare supply system.The old-age issue is essentially a contradiction between supply and needs. Compared withthe complication construction and plural content of mordem old-age care needs,thetraditional one is single and simple. This change requires other organizations and individualsparticipate in old-age care need supply. Let the government and family release some burdenof old-age. Giving the elder people a happy life finally.The old-age care needs and resources of ethnic minority peasants are particularity. Bothof them have different performance in old-age care supply. They focused on differentparts,so they formed two ways of old-age(formation and information). Both of them playeda role for the ethnic minority peasants’ old-age care,especially in the living suppliment. Thecombination of field survey about the culture,socio economic,the current situation in old-agecare. This is a contradiction between the needs and supply. In the minority areas,supportingdepend on individuals, families and community. The role of governments become more obvious are expected by ethnic minority peasants. The lack of other subjects participate insupply the pension resource will have a broad space in future. It’s a effective way thatmultiple combination providers get together to committe solve the problem of ethnicminority peasants old-age care problem.