The Present Situation, Issues And Countermeasures Of Rural Minimum Living Security System In The Liangzhou District Of Wuwei City, Gansu Province In China

Since the Rural Minimal Living Security system was officially implemented around China in 2007, it has occupied the key status in the rural social security system after the development of about 8 years. Nevertheless, there are still several issues that inaccuracy of the objects, “relation assurance”(it means that the minimum living assurance is got by those who has connections with officials) and “favor assurance” in the system, the emergence of whose has a bad influence on the social harmony and justice. It is known that Wuwei is a typical agricultural city where there are also many issues in the implementat ion of this system. This paper is intended to analyze systematically the current situation, issues as well as the countermeasures of the Wuwei Rural Minimum Living Security system. Its main purpose is to provide social welfare qualified personnel with opinions for reference, helping the Wuwei Rural Minimum Living Security System to be better implemented and to furthest play its essential role in safeguarding the interest, basic life of rural weak population and maintaining social stability.This paper takes the Liangzhou District of Wuwei city as the research area to analyze the current situation, problems and countermeasures of the Rural Minimum Living System in Wuwei city by means of literature research, policy research, interview and investigat ion, questionnaire survey and other forms. The comprehensive and accurate understanding and overview of the Rural Minimum Assurance Policy are formed via the investigation on the literature data and the rural minimum living standard. Through frequent visits to the Civil Affairs Bureau, some townships, towns, villages, groups, the author also collects data and analyze the status quo as well as measures by interviews and questionnaire surveys to front-line social welfare qualified personnel, the objects of lowest social security, the masses and the leaderships as well.It reveals the readers the current situations that, since the establishment of the Rural Minimum Living Security System in 2007, its standard has arisen with each passing year and its objects are prominently the weak populations accounting for 84% of its total number. Furthermore, its fund mainly relies on allocations from Gansu Provincial F inance Office and its procedures of application and approval are normative. The main existing problems are its insufficient propaganda and misunderstanding of this system, loose implementat ion of announcing regulat ions, inaccurate objects, and weak social welfare personnel as well as the non-establishment of rural legal system. The main countermeasures are to strengthen the policy advocacy and interpretation, scientifically determine the minim al assurance objects, and enhance the leadership. Moreover, the local government can improve standard of service, strictly implement the announcing regulations, intensify supervision and inspection, gradually expand the scope of Rural Minimum Living Security system, and improve the rural legal system as well.