China's Social Assistance System:Review,Reflection and Prospects
After China has eliminated absolute poverty and built a moderately prosperous society,the social assis-tance system is faced with the task of transformation and upgrading,and needs to become an important tool for relative poverty governance.Through a review of the changes in the social assistance system since the founding of People's Republic of China at both the"spiritual"and"material"levels,it is found that China's social assistance system has undergone a transformation from traditional to modern,and has played an important role in filling the gaps and protecting the bottom,ensuring the livelihood of the needy groups and maintaining bot-tom-line equity and social stability.In order to cope with the fundamental shift in the anti-poverty strategy,we should actively promote the high-quality development of the social assistance system,including fully un-derstanding the relative and multidimensional nature of poverty in the context of Chinese modernization,clarif-ying the dual functions of the social assistance system in providing protection and promoting development,ex-panding the scope of assistance recipients and ensuring accurate identification of assistance recipients,vigor-ously developing service assistance and promoting the richness and diversity of assistance contents and matc-hing supply and demand.In addition,it also should promote the gradual maturation and modernization of the social assistance management system.