Research On Rural Sandwich Class Old-age Care Security In Zigong From The Perspective Of Welfare Pluralism Theory

At present,the aging and the urbanization of China's population have become an unavoidable trend,which has greatly impacted the rural area's traditional old-age care models: family care.The gap between urban and rural areas is broadening,and the phenomenon of empty nesting in rural areas is emerging.The rural aged people have become a special large-scaled group,which is in need to be protected but difficult to be guaranteed.This has aggravated social contradictions in China.The problem of rural sandwich class old-age security needs to be solved urgently.From the “management-oriented government” to the “service-oriented government”,the government can't carry on everything.The welfare pluralism,centering on the government,the market,the family,and the civil society,has facilitated the ease of the problem of old-age care in western countries.The government then as the metagovernor bore the important responsibility of coordination,integration,and control.At the 19 th National Congress,Chinese Communist Party has proposed the "socialism of the new era with Chinese characteristics",clarifying that the main contradiction in China's society is the contradiction between the people's growing needs for a better life and the inadequate and imbalanced development.Consequently,we must uphold the people-centered thinking and advance the overall goal of comprehensive reform of the national governance system and the modernization of governance capabilities.This requires us to adhere to the peoplecentered thinking and promote all-round development and common prosperity.From the perspective of welfare Pluralism theory,we should clarify the government's responsibilities,build up social organizations,develop relevant markets,promote the development of families and individuals and form an effective social governance and a good social order,so as to sustainably protect people's livelihood.Zigong is endowed with typical shallow-hill topography,its economic development is in the middle level of Sichuan Province,and the gap of average level for CPI index's between Zigong's rural people and the whole country's rural people is not too big,therefore,the rural area and the rural sandwich class old-age of Zigong is representative.This study is implemented in the rural sandwich class old-age of Zigong,Sichuan Province.It focuses on the welfare Pluralism theory and studies the current situation and existing problems of rural pension from the perspectives of government,market,social organization,family and individual.The conclusions and recommendations are conducive to the government for its improvement of the rural old people's living quality.In the first chapter,the author firstly describes the research background and significance of the study of the rural old-age care security problem in Zigong from the perspective of welfare Pluralism theory.The paper studies the research value by combing the domestic and foreign literatures and analyzing the existing achievements.Secondly,the author illustrates the research content,methods,innovations and deficiencies of this paper.The second chapter mainly explains and defines the related concepts involved in this paper,and introduces the theoretical basis for guiding this article,making a corresponding distinction and explaining relevant theoretical concepts.The third chapter uses a variety of statistical data and indicators to introduce the basic situation of rural old-age security in Zigong City.The fourth chapter elaborates on the problem of rural sandwich class old-age security for the elderly in Zigong City from the four aspects: government,market,social organization,individual and family.This chapter also analyzes the causes of the problem.Based on the welfare pluralism theory,the fifth chapter mainly proposes the government's countermeasures and suggestions for the elderly in the rural areas from the perspective of government,the market,non-profit social organizations,individuals and families.The sixth chapter summarizes the full text and explains the future research direction.In this paper,I found that the aging of Zigong City is more serious,and the proportion of sandwich class elderly in rural areas is higher.Although the government has promulgated and improved some relevant policies,there are still widespread imbalances in income and expenditure,serious empty nesting and monotonous spiritual life among the rural sandwich class old-age.At the same time,I found that there are some problems,such as lack of government attention and policy support,difficulties in life care,backward rural human infrastructure,difficulties in re-employment of rural sandwich class old-age,heavy burden of wedding and funeral.The main causes of these problems are analyzed from the aspects of government,market,social organization,individual and family.Among them,the government's main reasons are the lack and lag of resources allocation due to the imperfect macro-policy,which affects infrastructure construction and the inadequate governance ability of the government's internal and external elements;the inadequate development of social organizations and lack of supervision;the serious homogenization of products provided in the old-age care market,which fails to take into account the different needs of urban and rural elderly,and the lack of zoning with products provided by public old-age care institutions;Individuals and families have weak awareness of the old-age security and low acceptance of socialized old-age support model.In this case,according to the above problems and reasons,the government as a coordinator of pluralistic participation in the role of meta-governance has put forward corresponding countermeasures and suggestions from the government itself,the market,social organizations,individuals and families,to promote effective governance and the improvement of the old-age care security of rural sandwich class old-age.For the problem of old-age care security in underdeveloped areas of China,the solution in this paper has certain reference significance.