Research On Urban Poverty In The Transitional Period Of China

Urban poverty which is regarded as the most distinctive and politically sensitive problem by the World Bank has been explicitly manifested in China of the 1990s. Urban poverty has been evolved in the process of the dual transition of economies and society, which is assigned with unique characteristics by the special social background that differs from other countries. In summary, the urban poverty groups in China are vast and multi-structured, which are unemployed, renewable and hierarchic. The occurrence of poverty can certainly be associated with the personal factors of the poor, but the urban poverty manifested in the special historical transitional period of China should also find its origin more in the changes in the political and economic systems and policies. To be more specific, urban poverty in the transitional period of China is closely associated with the urban and rural management systems, employment mechanisms, reforms with state-owned enterprises, social security systems and the transformation with the allocation of social resources. Therefore, an anti-poverty system in urban areas pioneered by the government should be established to effectively ease the poverty situations in our urban areas. The system should consider employment first, urban and rural integrated planning and humane care to be its top goals, and from the perspectives of improving employment, social security, and distributing social resources more evenly, take concrete measures to safeguard and better the rights of urban poverty groups in...