公平是社会保障制度的本质特征,而公平本身应该是保护与激励的统一,因此,社会保障制度应是兼顾保护与激励的公平。发达国家的发展经历表明,缺少激励的社会保障制度往往导致各种问题.因而适度体现激励机制是现代社会保障制度发展的趋势。但是,在社会保障领域的认识和实践中,人们往往更看重社会保障的保护作用,而忽视了如何体现激励机制。 Fairness is the essential feature of the social security system, and fairness itself should be the unity of protection and incentive. Therefore, the social security system should take into consideration the fairness of protection and encouragement. The experience of developed countries shows that the lack of incentive social security system often leads to various problems, and thus a proper reflection of the incentive mechanism is the trend of the development of modern social security system. However, in the field of social security awareness and practice, people tend to pay more attention to the protective role of social security, while ignoring how to reflect the incentive mechanism.