Social assistance should support all social members. Assistance items should be complete gradually. Assistance standards should be appropriate. Since the application of the reform and opening-up policy

government resists on taking basic living assistance as main assistance and uniting all power of the society to establish new assistance system for urban and rural residents centered with subsistence allowances gradually to suit the establishment and development socialist market economy system. The government assistance also expands to five guarantees

education

medical treatment

housing and temporary relief. More and more people are included into social assistance scheme

assistance level is more and more high

assistance items are more and more wide

and assistance system is more and more perfect gradually. Social Assistance Scheme has realized historical achievement. However

in order to satisfy people's ever-growing needs for a better life

China 's social assistance career exists some problem

such as assistance items prefer to finance assistance and lack of service assistance; assistance methods prefer to single assistance and lack of general assistance; social assistance is not enough scientific and implementation mechanism is not perfect. Therefore

we should put traditional mutual assistance culture into modern social assistance career to explore comprehensive assistance methods centered with assistance objects

to establish more scientific

normative assistance mechanism

to achieve combination of town and country social assistance methods and to promote the substantial development of social assistance career.