提高社会保障水平是加强和创新社会管理、构建和谐社会的基础性工程。梳理社会保障在西方的发展轨迹,深化对社会保障本质及其历史必然性的认识,进而明确我国社会保障的发展方向,对于加快社会保障体系建设,早日全面建成小康社会具有重要意义。 Improving the level of social security is a basic project for strengthening and innovating social management and building a harmonious society. It is of great significance to speed up the construction of the social security system and build an overall well-to-do society in an all-round way as soon as possible, combing the development path of social security in the West, deepening our understanding of the essence of social security and its historic inevitability, and further clarifying the development direction of social security in our country.