What are the main reasons for the reform of social security system?

Social security is produced and developed under the impetus of industrialization and marketization, which leads to the unemployment of some people and the lack of traditional means of family and land protection, thus interrupting the source of life, and the urgent need for social security system to maintain these people's lives; On the other hand, the change of population structure has contributed to the change of the ratio of retirees to employees, which also requires the establishment of a social security system.

Ethics has played an important role in the emergence and development of social security, and has risen to the value of fairness and justice in contemporary society; Of course, the government of a country should also attach importance to the social security system, which can effectively alleviate some social contradictions and let people live and work in peace and contentment.

Extended data

The social security system includes the following aspects:

(1) social insurance system. Refers to the system established by the state according to law to enable workers to get social material help when they are old, sick, disabled, pregnant and unemployed.

(2) Social welfare system. In a broad sense, it is synonymous with social security. In a narrow sense, it refers to a social system in which the state or society generally provides economic assistance and optimized services to all citizens within the scope permitted by laws and policies.

(3) Social relief system. It refers to the system that the state provides assistance to members of society who cannot maintain the minimum living standard due to natural disasters or other economic and social reasons through the redistribution of national income to ensure their minimum living standard.

(4) Social preferential treatment system. It refers to the social security system with the nature of praise and relief for soldiers and their families who have made special contributions in the form of state regulations according to laws and government actions.