A Study On Current Situation Of Implementation Of Rural Minimum Subsistence Allowance System In Chinna’s Poverty-stricken Areas

The poverty-stricken in rural areas are the disadvantaged, the majority of which are the old, the sick, the ill and the disabled. To solve the problem of rural poverty-stricken residents is the key to solving China’s poverty problem. As the last safety net of social assistance, rural minimum subsistence allowance system is the last protective screen to guarantee a large quantity of rural poor people’s basic living. The recipients’ recognition of qualification embodies whether the minimum subsistence allowance system could identify "people with allowance-in-demand" in society, and whether limited resources are allocated to the "people with allowance-in-much-demand".in the other hand, it can reflect the problem of Implementation about rural minimum subsistence allowance system.Zhenyuan County, a national-level poverty-stricken county, is a triune region in collection of minority, mountainous areas and poverty. Zhenyuan County is featured by a great quantity of poverty-stricken residents, weak self-development ability and frequent natural disasters. Zhenyuan County has strong representativeness as a pilot county of new rural minimum subsistence allowance policy. The paper takes the Implementation status of rural minimum subsistence allowance system in Zhenyuan County of Yunnan Province as the research object. The methods adopted are questionnaire method and case-interview method. The survey is conducted in peasant households and the related civil servants occupied in rural minimum subsistence allowance policy. Basic information of people in questionnaire, publicity before the policy’s being carried out, and the process and result of recipients’ recognition of qualification are analyzed. The existing problems in recipients’ recognition of qualification in rural minimum subsistence allowance system are objectively reflected as much as possible. According to surveys, that Zhenyuan County carries out new rural minimum subsistence allowance system plays a positive role in rectifying the deviation of the recipients, implementing thorough policy procedures, conforming responsibility and recognition of qualification, etc. The main existing problems are: publicity of policy is inadequate; the policy itself lacks systematic consideration; the investigation of family livelihood in the process of the policy’s being implemented is not practicable; the rural social security system is not perfect; related civil servants’ allocating human resources is not reasonable enough; people’s participation degree is yet to be improved, etc. In the ending part of the paper, the author comes up with corresponding countermeasures in allusion to the analyzed results from some aspects including policy of recipients’ recognition of qualification in rural minimum subsistence allowance system, implementation of the policy, making laws, perfecting rural social security system and improving supporting measures.