Empirical Study Of Old-age Security Of Empty-nest Families In Rural Areas

Empty Nest Family was the inevitable outcome as the social development approaching into acertain stage. With the accelerating aging society and urbanization, we had to face the pension issuefor old population within empty nest family in rural area. Together with the weakening familypension function and the impact of long lasting urban-rural dual structure, there was big challengeon how to handle the pension issue for the empty nest elderly in china rural area. How to resolve thepension issue of empty nesters in countryside was becoming the focus of public attention anddiscussion. With the full implementation of the new pilot rural social pension insurance system,there would be institutional security for the care of the empty nest elderly.The elderly in empty nest families from XiBaozhangcun at Yanwu Town Fenyang City inShanXi Province were taken as the research subjects, case Interview and questionnaire survey weremainly used to collect related date in terms of economic income, material supply, life care andspiritual consolation, and to understand the current life status of empty-nesters and the family basedpension mode in rural area. Furthermore empirical analysis was performed on the current ruralpension service status.From the aspects of economic income, material supply, life care and spiritual consolation, theempty-nesters’ requirements were analyzed, the results showed that in surveyed area life careranked the first in the requirements of empty nesters, which were followed by material supply andeconomic supply, requirement of spiritual consolation was the least.Through the research of pension system in surveyed area, it seemed that new rural socialpension insurance system and new rural cooperative medical insurance system already showed theinitial success, although there were still kinds of problems, such as the incomplete social securitysystem, the lack of material supply and medical security. It proved that rural-urban gap resultedfrom urban-rural dual economic system, weakening family-based pension function due to the socialand economic development, together with the ethical value change and incomplete pension systemwere the main factors influencing the rural empty nest family’s pension issue.After illustrating the main current problems in rural aged care system and the main factors influencing rural empty nest families’ pension, finally some countermeasures were listed down inthis article, First, to specify the government responsibility and establish perfect rural social securitysystem; Second, to accelerate the rural pension infrastructure construction, to fully establish ruralcommunity pension function and setup rural aged-care institution for the elderly; Third, to promotethe economic development and accomplish the local transfer of surplus labour in rural area; Fourth,to develop the traditional virtue of respecting the elderly and to rebuild the family based pension.