The Social Process of Introducing the Long-term Care Insurance System in Rural China——A Case Study from X City
This study explores the social process and operational mechanisms of the implementation of modern social welfare system in rural China. The long-term care insurance system is currently in the stage of tiered policy trials,in which various system entities express their own interests and institutional con-cepts,influencing and shaping the micro-system form. Taking the long-term care insurance practice in a rural area of China as an example,this paper examines the interactions among local government,rural so-ciety and rural residents during the long-term care insurance pilot process,and explains the institutional micro-operation mechanism centered on social redistribution benefits and rural social context. It is be-lieved that in the current long-term care insurance practice,there is a"dual subjectivity" feature between the local government and rural society,which means they are both independent and integrated with each other. This paper finds that it is necessary and urgent to promote the construction of long-term care insur-ance system tailored to rural China. It is also necessary to find the balance between the design of the long-term care insurance system and the expression of rural residents' interests,strengthen the redistribution of public resources to both economically and socially weaker areas,and systematically improve the construc-tion of the rural elderly care system.
Long-term care insuranceSocial contextSocial redistribution interestsSocial process
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