Abstract: To achieve the integration of urban and rural social relief security mechanism is an important link in promoting urban and rural equalization of basic public services and balancing a healthy and stable urban-rural development. This is a necessary requirement when implementing the concept of scientific development and constructing a harmonious society. Although China in recent years has made brilliant achievements in the integrated urban-rural social relief, there still exist some prominent problems, such as imperfect legal system, operating mechanism lagging behind, insufficient financial security measures, urban-rural linkage mechanism missing and so on. For this reason, this paper suggests that, on the basis of linking theory and practice, we should take defining the content of the integration of urban-rural social relief as the starting point, then carry out a deep integration of the existing urban and rural social relief security mechanisms from such aspects as perfecting the legal hierarchy and procedures, reforming the operational mechanism, improving the fund guarantee mechanism, building the urban-rural linkage mechanism and so on, so as to establish a more coordinated and perfected urban-rural social assistance guarantee mechanism.

Key words: social assistance; urbal-rural integration; security mechanism