LIU Jitong
Jinan Journal. 2021, 43(8): 12-23.
The modern social welfare system is mainly composed of six sub-systems: social assistance, social insurance, social welfare service, housing and family, compulsory education, and health care services. Social welfare service is the most important, basic and key part of modern social welfare system. The characteristics of the state welfare system are obvious, such as the nature of state welfare, the legal rights of citizens, taking long-term care of the dependent and vulnerable groups as the priority, the de-commercialization of services, the state welfare finance, and taking professional social workers as the main service personnel. Due to the nature of politics, child and family welfare services are the foundation and the highest level of the national welfare service system. The “national” characteristic of welfare service is mainly embodied in the social welfare financial system, and the “de-commercialization” service can best reflect how state responsibility is taken. Against the background of a law-based country and government, the integration progress of social construction and ruling by law, social welfare legislation, welfare services based on the protection of citizens' rights and the social construction under the rule of law are the strategic focuses and priority areas of the construction of the rule of law in China. Most importantly, the development of a modern and “neutral” social welfare system is not only the most basic and essential requirement for building socialism system with Chinese characteristics, but also the best social safety valve and social stabilizer for a modern, open, pluralistic, democratic and high-risk society. The modern social welfare system is the best embodiment of the superiority of the socialism system.