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Public Welfare and Social Donation

2011-03-15

 

Chenzhou Civil Affairs Bureau is an important sector which is in charge of social administrative affairs authorized by the municipal people's government. In the Modern Era, the work of civil affairs mainly focuses on three functions: guaranteeing people's well-being, promoting democracy and serving society. It can be summarized as a junction of  "five systems", i.e.,: social assistance system covering both urban and rural areas, the system of the grass-root level democracy nourishment, social welfare service system, the system of "two-supports" (local authorities and people support the army and their relatives, and the army advocates national policies and loves people) and providing special assistance to entitled groups, and lastly the special social affairs management system. 

 

Being more precise, it encompasses 39 aspects, mainly including the following: urban and rural minimal guarantee allowances, urban and rural medical assistance, rural five guarantees (the old, disabled, aged, widows and orphans) support, disaster relief, benevolent contribution, assistance to homeless people and beggars, the development of old sections of cities, supporting the army and give preferential treatment to the families of the army men, assessment of disability and conferring a posthumous honor of martyr, emplacement of ex-servicemen, emplacement of retired cadres from the army and military supply, flourishing  of primary-level political power and communities, marriage registration, funeral management, welfare lottery, adoption registration, welfare undertakings, regionalization of place names, elder affairs, and social organization registration.