第九次全国民政会议提出的“民政工作要充分发挥社会稳定机制作用”的观点,标志着我们对民政本质的认识有了一次飞跃。根据当时的认定,发挥社会稳定机制作用主要通过维护和保障人民群众基本生活权益来实现,因而顺理成章地把社会保障作为民政工作的重点和龙头。但是,这样的认识有着明显的缺陷。它没有给出非社会保障业务的互相关联性及其在民政工作 The view that “civil affairs work should give full play to the role of social stability mechanism” put forward by the Ninth National Civil Affairs Conference marks a leap forward in our understanding of the nature of civil affairs. According to what was then determined, realizing the role of a social stability mechanism was mainly achieved through the safeguarding and safeguarding of people’s basic living rights and interests. Therefore, as a matter of course, social security was taken as the key and leading task in civil affairs work. However, this understanding has obvious flaws. It does not give the non-social security business interrelatedness and its work in civil affairs