Study On The Responsibility Of Local Government In The New Rural Social Pension Insurance

The market-oriented reform started from the rural areas, and after30years reform and development, there is apparent economic and socialdevelopment in rural areas. However, along with the development is theweakening function of the rural traditional family and land, as well as the agingof the population and the widening gap between urban and rural areas. Thisrequires the government must try to take seriously and assue its responsibility inthe development of rural social pension insurance. However, rural area isalways on the edge of China’s social security system and the urban-ruraldualistic system has excluded the farmers for a long time. Therefore, ruralsocial pension insurance is facing a huge bottleneck.With the introduction of state [2009] No.32,“State Council regarding thedevelopment of new rural social pension insurance pilot guidance”(hereinafterreferred to as “guidance”), government emphasized on rural social pensioninsurance and farmers actively called for the construction of rural social pensioninsurance make the rural social pension insurance system constructiondeveloped and refined gradually. The guidance sets the basic principles,missions and objectives, the scope of the insured, fund-raising as well assupervision and management, etc. of the new rural social pension insurance(hereinafter referred to as the “new farmer’s insurance”) and clears the newfarmer’s insurance to the implementation of the combined model of the basicpension and individual account, wherein individual account fund mainlyconsists of payments by individual farmers, collective subsidies and localgovernment financial subsidies. But as a kind of new system, the new farmer’sinsurance is certainly imperfect. Local government is an important subject in theimplementation of the new farmer’s insurance. However it exists insufficientplace, such as the responsibility between the local government and the central government in the implementation of the new farmer’s insurance is not clear,the local government lacks of interface with the central government in policyformulation, the use of funds management and supervision and so on.The thesis uses the research methods of linking theory with practice,literature summarized analysis and dialectical analysis, discusses the change ofthe local government’s responsibility in the development of rural social pensioninsurance, the necessities and advantages of the new farmer’s insurance. At thesame time, it makes a systematic review of the lack of local governmentresponsibility and then put forward some measures of improving the specificresponsibilities of the local government in the implementation of the new ruralsocial pension insurance. This way of analysis,which is first making divisionand then making integration,renders the clue of the thesis clearer and makes thecontent of the research more scientific and logic.