On The Legal System Of Agricultural Natural Disaster Relief In China

Our country is a big agricultural country which is seriously influenced by the agricultural natural disaster in the world. China has frequently encountered various agricultural natural disasters in history. With the ever-increasing human economic activity, our country has often suffered from agricultural natural disaster, and the damage caused much more losses. Natural disasters have a significant impact on agricultural production, and the frequent natural disaster will lead to enormous economical damage, so that all social classes have been paying more attention to the question of agricultural natural disaster relief.From ancient time to now, from China to abroad, many countries have a specification of agricultural natural disaster relief. Both the United States and Japan have frequently occurred agricultural natural disasters, and they have rich agricultural natural disaster relief experience and more perfect aid system. They have established a sound legal system of agricultural natural disaster relief, which regulate the government’s responsibility, rescue mode, rescue contents and legal responsibility in detail, etc. Under the guidance of the sound legal system, a variety of ways for agricultural natural disaster relief minimize the agricultural economic losses of the natural disasters, and restore basic livelihood of farmers and agricultural production as soon as possible. The main form of government relief for natural disaster is aid in ancient China, but this way is too single, the content and purpose of aid is limited to get rid of the plight.Under the guidance of a sound legal system, a variety ways of government rescues, agricultural insurance and social donation work together for the agricultural natural disaster relief, so as to decrease the economic loss in the smallest extend, to restore the basic livelihood of farmers and agricultural production as soon as possible. The main form of government relief for natural disaster is government rescue in ancient China, but this way is too single, and the content or purpose of aid is limited to get rid of the plight. With social progress and economic development, the concept of agricultural natural disaster relief, rescue methods and related system has a diversified improvement. The uneven development of various rescue mode play a different role, but they are not orderly coordinate and cooperate. At present, government assistance and social donations is the major way of agricultural natural disaster relief in our country. Market-oriented agricultural natural disaster relief is not yet mature, nor the formation of a sound legal system about agricultural natural disaster relief, so it is necessary to explore the positive role of the legal system to the agriculture natural disaster relief.Adverse impact of natural disasters for agriculture to social stability and economic development highlights the need for the circumvention and rescue of the agricultural natural disaster risk, and it reflects the importance of the legal system of agricultural natural disaster relief. Establishing and improving the agricultural natural disaster relief legal system is in line with the China’s national conditions and the international development trend. We should base on the actual situation of our country’s present stage to change the concept of aid, to integrate the existing regulations and documents, to develop specialized higher rank law, to standard government financial assistance, agricultural assistance and social insurance relief donations, as well as its specific content and related measures, so as to protect our agricultural natural disaster relief work efficiently and orderly, to promote the development of China’s agriculture, and to protect the stability of the social order.