Must rural social security be paid?

No, according to the inquiry of official website of Social Security Bureau, rural social security is voluntary and does not need to be participated. Rural social security, that is, rural social insurance, including rural old-age insurance and rural medical insurance, is an old-age insurance policy that is guided by government organizations, adopts the system mode of combining social pooling with individual accounts, and adopts the financing mode of combining individual contributions, collective subsidies and government subsidies to protect farmers' basic livelihood in their later years.