China's urban residents' right to minimum living security has been confirmed in the form of legislation, but the minimum living security for farmers, which accounts for more than 80% of the total population of the country, is still blank  The key to realizing rural subsistence allowances is to raise funds
An economist asserts that the realization of rural subsistence allowance is completely within the country's financial resources
Subsistence allowances for rural residents need about 25 billion yuan a year, which is 0.83 percent of China's total fiscal revenue of 3 trillion yuan in 2005.