城乡统筹战略指导下的农村最低生活保障制度建设

The construction and consummation of Rural Minimum Living Security system:Under city and countryside overall plan angle of view

最低生活保障制度是绝大多数市场经济国家普遍实行的以保障全体公民基本生存权利为目标的社会救助制度。针对我国目前城乡分割的二元社会结构,基于长期以来在计划经济时期形成的重城市轻农村的发展思路,城镇和农村实施的是内容和标准完全不同、甚至是城镇低保制度优于农村低保制度的不公平的现状,如何有效解决农村的贫困问题是一个值得深思和解决的问题。本文认为,以城乡统筹的战略发展思路,建立健全农村最低生活保障制度,探索城乡统一的居民最低生活保障制度,是一条解决城乡贫困问题的有效的制度安排和政策选择。

The Minimum Living Security system, which is generally implemented by most market economy countries, is one of the social assistance systems with the aim of safeguarding all citizens＂ basic right to life. Faced with China＇s current urban-rural division of dual social structure, based on the urban-rural development ideas formed during the planned economy, towns and rural areas of the content and standards is completely different, and even town＇s Minimum Living Security system is superior to the rural Minimum Living Security system .With this unfair status, how to solve the problem of absolute poverty in ntral areas effectively deserves serious consideration and exploration. According to the author, considering city and countryside as a whole, establishing and improving the rural Minimum Living Security system, exploring the unified Minimum Living Security system between urban and rural residents, is an effective institutional arrangements and policy options in solving the poverty problem in urban and rural areas.