This paper studies the relationships between urbanite's minimum living guarantee standard which was adjusted in 2004 and main economic indicators. The conclusions are as follows: the main factors that should be considered when adjusting urbanite's minimum living guarantee standard are per capita consumption expenditure, average salary of the workers and the minimum wage standard;the current urbanite's minimum living guarantee standard can only meet the living needs of low insurance families, and its ensure range is too narrow;the proportion coefficient between current urbanite's minimum living guarantee standard and average salary of the workers is relatively on the low side, which reflects greater gap between rich and poor of the laborers of our country;the disparity between current urbanite's minimum living guarantee standard and the minimum wage standard is not large, which is unfavorable to encourage the low insurance families to reemploy. As to those, this paper puts forward policy recommendations to improve our country urbamte minimum living guarantee standard in the future.
