大连市委、市政府历来十分重视以最低生活保障制度为核心的城乡一体化社会救助体系建设。2002年,结合大连工作实际,学习借鉴上海等地的先进经验,在全市范围内建立实施了城乡特困居民重大疾病医疗救助制度,有效缓解了患重大疾病城乡特困居民的医疗负担,维护了特困居民的基本生活权益,进一步健全了我市城乡社会救助体系。 Dalian Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have always attached great importance to the construction of integrated urban and rural social assistance system with the minimum living standard guaranteed as the core. In 2002, based on the actual work in Dalian, we learned from the advanced experiences in Shanghai and other places to establish and implement the medical assistance system for major diseases for the urban and rural residents in the urban areas, effectively relieving the medical burden on the particularly destitute residents in urban and rural areas and safeguarding the destitute residents Basic living rights and interests, and further improve the city’s urban and rural social relief system.