Structure and Changes in China's Rural Social Security System (1949--2002)

Author: Song Shiyun
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Publish Date: 2007-01-05
Features: In the transformation of establishing and improving the socialist market economy system, the reform of the social security system has become the current focus and difficulty. At the new stage of coordinated urban-rural development and building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, solving a series of major issues in China's social security system, such as its structural system, institutional model, operational mechanisms, policy design, and development trends, especially the absence of modern social security systems in rural areas, is more urgent than ever. This book, from the perspective of economic history, is grounded in economic norms, organically integrates analytical methods from disciplines such as history, sociology, law, and ethics, and evaluates from the value judgment standard of prioritizing efficiency while considering fairness. It provides a historical description, comprehensive analysis, and thematic research on the structure and evolution of the rural social security system under the background of industrialization, marketization, and modernization in New China. It explores the institutional structure, model characteristics, performance, existing problems, driving forces of change, historical context, and interactive relationships between the rural social security system and the urban social security system as well as socio-economic development in different periods of social and economic development. The book summarizes lessons learned and proposes development strategies and approaches for the future.