Collaborative Governance in Service-Oriented Social Assistance: A Case Study of Muding County, China

Social assistance assumes the role of guaranteeing basic life and maintaining social stability. In the critical period of China's advancement of socialist modernization, social assistance assumes an important mission and needs to promote high-quality development by means of continuous reform and innovation. Meanwhile, under the construction requirements of the categorized social assistance system, the collaborative governance network plays an important role in social assistance practice. This study chooses Muding County in Yunnan Province as the research object, and adopts the qualitative research method to present the practice cases of Dajiang Village and Republican Community's collaborative governance network participating in social assistance. The study concludes that social assistance in the collaborative governance network has four major practical functions: institutional support from the government, platform support from the community, organizational support from social organizations, and self-support from the assistance recipients. It also refines the three paths of collaborative governance network in social assistance, which forms a useful exploration for the development of social assistance field.