Abstract
With the increasing mobility of the rural population in China and the growing number of residents moving to the cities for work or study, rural society is forming a pluralistic, interest-centered, “open” social networks relations that follows the modern rule of law contract. Based on Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) data, the results of the empirical study finds that social insurance can significantly enhance the social interactions of rural residents in China, that is, formal social security system in rural areas promotes informal social security mechanisms such as social interactions. The results of the grouping test show that rural residents in China’s different regions were affected by social insurance in different ways. Social insurance has a greater impact on the social interactions in the eastern region than in the middle and western regions. The propensity score matching method was used to reduce the sample selection bias, and the findings of the paper were found to be robust.
Highlights
From the strategic goal of “coordinating and promoting the construction of urban and rural social security system, and fully completing a social security system covering urban and rural residents by 2020” proposed at the 18th congress, to the strategic goal of “improving the basic pension insurance system of urban and rural residents (BPISURR)” and “improving the basic medical insurance system for urban and rural residents (BMISURR)” proposed at the 19th congress, it highlights the importance of social security system in current Chinese society
The question “Are you enrolled in commercial medical insurance (CMI)” is Security3, and the question “Are you enrolled in commercial pension insurance (CPI)” is Security4
Are you enrolled in BMISURR? Are you enrolled in BPISURR? Are you enrolled in commercial medical insurance (CMI)? Are you enrolled in commercial pension insurance (CPI)? I am always reluctant to associate with people who are not in a good position to live
Summary
From the strategic goal of “coordinating and promoting the construction of urban and rural social security system, and fully completing a social security system covering urban and rural residents by 2020” proposed at the 18th congress, to the strategic goal of “improving the basic pension insurance system of urban and rural residents (BPISURR)” and “improving the basic medical insurance system for urban and rural residents (BMISURR)” proposed at the 19th congress, it highlights the importance of social security system in current Chinese society. The rest of the paper is organized as follows: the second part reveals the characteristics of the new rural social relationship networks and theoretically analyzes the mechanism of social insurance’s influence on it; the third part introduces the data sources and the design of relevant variables for the empirical study; the fourth part empirically tests the specific impact performance of social insurance on the social interactions of rural residents and examines differences by regional grouping; the fifth part is a robustness test based on the propensity score matching method; and concludes the full paper and makes policy recommendations. Some new social networks have started to emerge, such as academic relations, marriage relations (Xia, 2014) This is mainly manifested in the fact that a large number of rural household members have gone out to study or work and come into contact with different circles or industries, while villagers’ marriage relations are no longer limited to their own village or surroundings. It is reflected in the rural social life, where the purely emotional communication between villagers is becoming less and less, and more and more is a human relationship integrated with personal interests (Sun, 2016)
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