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

Author: Song Shi Yun
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: During the transformation of establishing and improving the socialist market economy system, the reform of the social security system has become a key and challenging issue at present. In the new stage of coordinating urban-rural development and comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society, solving a series of major problems 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 adopts an economic historical perspective, grounded in economic norms, and organically integrates analytical methods from disciplines such as history, sociology, law, and ethics. With efficiency as the primary priority and fairness as a secondary consideration as the value judgment standard, 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.