ABSTRACT
Being an emerging public policy framework originated from 1990’s, social protection represents a multichannel and multilayer intervention system, and aims at providing the vulnerable groups with systematic and comprehensive security of production and living. After entering 21st century, with growing attention being put to “the Problem of Agriculture, Countryside and Farmers”, some researchers introduced the concept of social protection into China, and make it an approach to measure the level of production and living security of the biggest vulnerable group, namely farmers.
