With the deepening of reform and opening-up policy and the establishment of a socialist market economy, great changes have taken place in the structure and size of the urban poor. There is a rapid increase in the poor population among workers and employees, the laid-off, the jobless, and the retirees, especially in the process of readjusting the ownership structures, establishing the modern enterprise system, and improving the structures and codes of distribution, which appears to be a new issue facing the ...