关键词: 社会救助 , 最低生活保障 , 计划经济 , 市场经济

Abstract: In the period of planned economy, China formed a relief system combined natural disaster relief, urban units relief and rural collective units relief systems. Since the reform and opening up period, with the innovation and development of the minimum living security system, China has formed “Interim Measures of Social Assistance” with eight rescue provisions in it. The trend of development of Chinas social assistance is: the relief object is in the transition from covering the new urban poor to covering all urban poor; from the urban social relief system as the main body to the integrated urban and rural social assistance system; from the separation of social relief and social welfare to the integration of social welfare and social assistance system; from the government leading to the plural subject of government, market and society.  

Key words: social assistance , minimum living security , planned economy , market economy