Abstract: | Editorial comment: As the problem of aged tendency of population becomes increasing serious, the issue of rural population aging and its social services and security is prominent. By the chance, we designedly invite Professor Deng Wei, Zhang Yun-ying and Cheng Zhi-gang to air their written opinions of respective researching field to meet the readers. Professor Deng Wei first pointed out the problems existing: rural population aging developing rapidly, the problems of "getting old before being rich" getting prominent, the social services and security for the rural aged being low, lack of supply of public products and services, pension requirements being difficult to meet, traditional family pension mode in rural areas facing challenges. To solve these problems, Professor Deng suggested a new pension model combining family support and community maintenance needed to be established under the support of institutional endowment, which could equalize the basic public goods supply in the elderly, improve burden-sharing mechanisms, strengthen the quaternity function of old-age service system consisted by government, family, social and market. Since the tong-term care system for rural elderly in our country is still in its infancy, Professor Zhang Yun-ying raised some suggestions to establish and perfect the long-term care system so as to deal with silver wave: establish multilateral cooperation among government, home, community and institution in order to supply multiple service including economic support, health care, day care and psychiatric, and each performs its own functions, the government was to be responsible for the fund supply and policy making, community worked as a platform for service and resource, institution was in charge of professional service, and family was to do the definite service. Based on the statistics from the questionnaires done by parts of Hunan province rural residents, Professor Cheng Zhi-gang found out that: Groups with better health status, senior high school education, less pension worries, high policy awareness and pension were more satisfied with the social pension system, the current evaluation of insured farmer to the new rural social pension system was not high, mainly focused on the performance of the central government subsidies, local financial subsidies, tied policy, policy advocacy and pension demand satisfaction. He hence recommended to take measures to improve the system design and services to improve satisfaction of the new rural social pension system. |