社会救济在调节社会矛盾,促进社会公平,依法维护和保障人民群众的基本生活权益,维护社会稳定等方面具有独特的作用,是国计民生的基本保障之一。然而,在新旧体制转换的历史时期,社会利益格局和人们的价值取向发生一系列变化,总体格局脱胎于计划经济体制的社会救济机制失去其赖以运行的基础,社会救济处于更加复杂的环境中。改革前淹没在普遍贫穷和极度平均状态中的社会救济问题又沉渣泛起;与经济社会发展阶段相伴而生的社会救济矛盾不断滋生,传统社会救济运行机制远远滞后于经济社会发展的客观要求,改革和完善社会 Social relief plays a unique role in regulating social conflicts, promoting social fairness, safeguarding and safeguarding the basic living rights and interests of the people in accordance with the law, and maintaining social stability. It is one of the basic guarantees for the national economy and the people’s livelihood. However, in the historic period of old and new system transition, the pattern of social interests and the value orientation of people have undergone a series of changes. The social relief mechanism whose overall pattern is derived from the planned economic system loses the basis for its operation. Social relief is in a more complicated environment . The problem of social relief subsided before the reform in the general state of poverty and the extreme average was precipitated. The contradictions of social relief accompanied by the economic and social development continued to multiply. The operation mechanism of the traditional social relief lags far behind the objective requirements of economic and social development , Reform and improve the society