Social relief -5
People's Republic of China to establish the initial stage of social relief in rural areas mainly by the government; agricultural collectivization later, mainly by the collective economic burden. Since the 80's rural social relief mission is: ① to the rural areas are unable to work, no source of livelihood, no one to depend on the elderly, the disabled and orphans, to take rely on the collective support, complemented by the national need for relief approach, " Five ", namely food security, clothing, keep, medical care and burial expenses (orphans Security Services), to ensure their lives to meet the local standard of living of the masses of ordinary people. Dependent form of centralized support (see homes for the elderly) and decentralized support. ② on household income in rural areas can not sustain a minimum standard of living of the local poverty-stricken households, distributed relief costs.
With the national economic construction and development of the cause of China's social relief is gradually from low level to high-level transition. Economically underdeveloped areas, has been simply to maintain the minimum standard of living of people living in poverty, to a provincial development, poverty alleviation as the focus and solve the problem of food and clothing for impoverished people to start by the relief-type changes to the welfare-type; economy is relatively developed areas, the original social relief Some social functions gradually replaced by social insurance, such as the establishment of cooperation in old-age insurance, cooperative medical insurance.