Abstract: The financing mechanism is an important component of social long-term care insurance, its stability and sustainability have a vital significance in keeping the healthy and efficient operation of social long-term care insurance. In order to carry out an in-depth study on the financing mechanism of social long-term care insurance, this article makes an analysis of each of the links and key points involved in the financing in accordance with the whole process of the social long-term care insurance financing and on the basis of summarizing the existing literature regarding the definition and connotation of the financing mechanism of social long-term care insurance. On such basis, it establishes the financing mechanism element framework of social long-term care insurance, by which it then explores the practices and experiences of the typical countries with social long-term care insurance and the advanced areas of China. Finally, in view of the common points and reform tendency of the construction of foreign countries’ social long-term care insurance financing mechanism, this paper puts forward some policy suggestions for the construction of China’s social long-term care insurance financing mechanism.

Key words: social long-term care insurance; financing mechanism; financing elements