近几年来,在经济结构调整和企业转换体制过程中,城镇中一个以贫困职工为主体的社会贫困群体正在形成,并呈逐年上升扩大的趋势。据国家统计局提供的资料,１９９６年我国城镇贫困人口约１１７６万人,其中贫困职工占８４%,约９００万人。在以后几年逐年有所上升。１９９８年初国家 In recent years, in the process of economic structural adjustment and enterprise transformation, a group of poor people living in poverty in cities and towns has been formed and has been growing year by year. According to the statistics provided by the National Bureau of Statistics, in 1996, the urban poor in our country comprised about 11.76 million people, of whom 84% were poor and employed about 9 million people. In the next few years, it has risen year by year. Early 1998 countries