Social relief means that the state and society provide material assistance to the poor to ensure that every citizen enjoys the basic right to life.
Social relief means that the state and society provide material assistance to the poor to ensure that every citizen enjoys the basic right to life. It mainly includes natural disaster relief, unemployment relief, widowed and disabled relief, and urban and rural poor households relief. The state and society provide relief in various forms to the victims and the poor who are unable to maintain their basic livelihood due to natural disasters, accidents and disabilities. Including providing necessary living allowances, welfare facilities, urgently needed means of production, labor services, technology and information services.
Article 45 of the Constitution of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates: "China citizens have the right to receive material assistance from the state and society in case of old age, illness or incapacity to work. The state develops social insurance, social relief and medical and health undertakings that citizens need to enjoy these rights. " According to this regulation, the state's social relief work mainly relies on the masses and collectives for self-help in production and neighborhood relief, and the state supplements it with necessary relief.
With the development of national economic construction, social relief in China is gradually changing from low level to high level. Economically underdeveloped areas have changed from simply maintaining the minimum living standard of the poor to focusing on helping the poor, and have begun to change from relief to welfare. In economically developed areas, the original social functions of social relief are gradually replaced by social insurance, such as establishing cooperative old-age insurance and cooperative medical insurance.