Function development and integration of social assistance under the new normal

Social assistance is one of the three basic social security system in our country, since the new China was established, based on the practice of social assistance of the long-term, explore the establishment of the Chinese characteristics of the social assistance system, play an important role in the protection of the difficulties of the masses living, maintaining social harmony and stability, enhance social cohesion, promote social equity and justice. In different historical period, social assistance to solve the difficulties and its construction with the changes to improve the level of social development and social system, on the one hand, social assistance function continues to expand, the better to meet the difficulties of the masses of the relief needs, on the other hand, the contradiction between social assistance and social assistance to needy people also developed. After the 18 th party congress, the economic and social development has entered a new norm, social relief work is facing the new challenges, such as the social causes of poverty, the negative impact of complex, social assistance demand diversification, the expansion of the poverty problem and so on, need to be in the spirit of reform and innovation in the social assistance system of their own on the basis of the construction, development and integration strengthen the function of social assistance, to better meet the needs of poor people relief, play a good social assistance safety valve role.