为保障人民群众的基本权益,从根本上缓解和消除城市贫困问题,党和国家把建立健全社会保障制度作为一项重要任务。 一是建立了城市居民最低生活保障制度,以保障城镇贫困居民的最低生活需求。截至2000年底,全国667座城市和1638个有建制镇的县人民政府所在地全部建立了城市居民最低生活保防制度。全国领取最低生 In order to safeguard the people’s basic rights and fundamentally alleviate and eliminate urban poverty, the party and the state have made establishing and improving the social security system an important task. First, the establishment of a minimum living allowance system for urban residents in order to protect the minimum living needs of urban poor residents. By the end of 2000, all the 667 cities in the country and 1,638 county people’s governments with established townships had established the minimum livelihood protection system for urban residents. The nation receives the lowest birth rate