Research On The Social Security In The Shanxi-suiyuan Border Region(1940-1949)

In the 1940 s,the Revolutionary base region of Shanxi-Suiyuan led by the Communist Party of China was faced with the serious threat of war and natural disasters.Coupled with the poor natural conditions in the area and the long-term exploitation of Yan Xishan regime,the people were unable to make a living.After the establishment of the government of the Shanxi-Suiyuan border area,a wide range of social assistance,social insurance,social welfare and the social preferential treatment policies for soldiers were carried out in view of the complex social problems and the people in urgent need of assistance,and the basic framework of social security in the border area was initially established.The first chapter is the introduction,which expounds the background of the topic of social security in the Shanxi-Suiyuan border region,and shows the research value of the topic from two aspects of its theoretical and practical significance.After classifying and summarizing the existing research results,it is considered that the current research on the history of the revolutionary base of the Shanxi-Suiyuan border region has achieved quite rich results,but the research on the field of social security in the Shanxi-Suiyuan border region is seriously insufficient,and there is still a lot of research space.At the same time,it roughly combs the research ideas and research methods of social security in the Shanxi-Suiyuan border region,in order to make a systematic and comprehensive research on social security in the Shanxi-Suiyuan border region.Chapter 2 analyzes the theoretical basis of social security in the Shanxi-Suiyuan border region.China has always had the traditional thought and practice of helping the weak and compensating the army.After Marxism was introduced into China,it pointed out the final development direction for the development of proletarian social security and provided "Soviet experience" for social welfare and social insurance in socialist countries.Under the guidance of Marxism,the Communist Party of China,in the process of leading the Chinese workers’ movement and the new democratic revolution,draws lessons from the "experience of the Soviet Union",constantly adjusts and gradually forms the thought of social security with Chinese characteristics.The social security undertaking in the Shanxi-Suiyuan border region was carried out under the guidance of the social security thought of the Communist Party of China represented by Comrade Mao Zedong.Chapter 3 discusses the practical basis and realistic conditions of social security in the Shanxi-Suiyuan border region.The social security in the central Soviet Area during the agrarian Revolution was the first attempt by the Communist Party of China to use the Marxist social security theory to guide practice.The Shanxi-GansuNingxia border region adjusted the working policy of social security according to the objective situation after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War.Based on the practice of social security in the two periods and the unique natural and social conditions in the area,the government of the Shanxi-Suiyuan border region had a preliminary understanding of the complexity and difficulty of social security work in the area.Chapter 4 firstly describes the general situation of the social security in the Shanxi-Suiyuan border region,and generally summarizes the development of social security in the Shanxi-Suiyuan border region into three stages: initial establishment stage,consolidation stage and zigzagging forward stage.The development of social security is closely related to the development of the situation of the Anti Japanese War and the war of liberation.Secondly,it introduces the social security management organizations and institutions inthe Shanxi-Suiyuan border region.Different organizations assume their own responsibilities and division of labor in the specific practice of social security work,cooperate with each other,complement each other,and play a joint guarantee role under the unified leadership of the border area government.Thirdly,the sources of social security funds was described in detail,the Shanxi-Suiyuan border region adheres to the principle of self-reliance is given priority to,on the one hand,through the economic recovery and development of the base areas,adjust the fiscal and tax policies,as "open source" social security funds,on the other hand in special period limited production,economic difficulties,attrition,saving and forbidden "throttling" measures,such as corruption,provide as much material and financial support as possible for social security.Chapter 5 analyzes the social security projects and their main contents in the Shanxi-Suiyuan border region.Social security in the Shanxi-Suiyuan border region consists of social assistance,social insurance,social welfare and social special care.Social assistance is to help poor people,disaster-stricken people and social vagrants in border areas caused by poverty,war and disaster.It not only helps them solve their immediate living difficulties,but also creates conditions to help them resume production as soon as possible and get rid of poverty completely.In order to ensure the workers’ ability to resolve various labor and health risks,the Shanxi-Suiyuan border region forced the employers to provide medical insurance,industrial injury insurance,maternity insurance and unemployment insurance to protect the basic rights and interests of the workers.Social welfare,in the border region outside the basic survival needs of the masses and the Shanxi-Suiyuan border region government have also used in medical and health care,education,culture,entertainment and other fields have done a lot of work on public welfare,promote the party and government organs and factory worker welfare benefits,and other special talent for technical workers,cadres and teachers practicing preferential benefit policy.In order to support the revolutionary war,the Shanxi-Suiyuan border region implemented the social preferential treatment policies of preferential treatment for soldiers,pension for the disabled,resettlement of retired soldiers and preferential treatment for military families.A good military civilian interaction atmosphere of loving the people and supporting the army was formed in the border region,which not only encouraged the front-line soldiers to fight bravely,but also maintained the social stability behind the border region,and contributed to the final victory of new democracy.Chapter 6 summarizes the historical function and experience of social security in the Shanxi-Suiyuan border region.Social security not only promoted the victory of the Anti Japanese War and the war of liberation,but also promoted the social and economic development of the border area.The ideological understanding and social style of the people in the whole Shanxi-Suiyuan border region also underwent profound changes,and finally built a new social relationship of close unity between the party,government,army and people under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.Although the Shanxi-Suiyuan border regionsocial security is not perfect,but the border region government to adjust social security relations with the war,the content of social security as a whole,insist on self-reliance,to develop the economy as a fundamental,clear responsibility of social security,fully give play to the role of force protection,provides the reference to the current social security construction experience and enlightenment.