It is necessary to ensure rural migrant workersp, lost land farmersp and farmersp living in their old age to promote the harmonious development between urban and rural areas. The southern Jiangsu reform mode carried out in Wuxi mainly represented the following features: based on synchronizat ion of renovation of concepts and mechanism, integrat ing differential guidance and dynamic management, adhering to the principal of unifying plans for rural and urban areas, realizing thorough coverage, stressing equality and increasing welfare, optimizing urban working staff basic insurance, regional old-age security and new rural endowment insurance, implementing the strategy of "city compensat ing the countryside", thus setting up new characteristics in unifying social old-age security in urban and rural areas.
