The significant development of social assistance system in 2007 is the rapid proceeding of subsistence allowances in rural area. This new system has made the benefit of subsistence allowances to cover about 30 million people in rural areas. At the same time，since urban subsistence allowances made a major breakthrough from 2002，the number of people covered by the system cover remains stable. Financial input to the system increases year after year. The standard of the allowances keeps rising. The number of urban residents enjoying the subsistence allowances in the whole country keep stable at 22 million for the past five years. The system of subsistence allowances for urban and rural residents is in place.