In 1980s, the reform and opening-up made China's national economy enter the fastest development period in history. With the deepening of the socialist market economy, the traditional social welfare mode arranged by the state has been difficult to meet the needs of social and economic development.
According to the statistical data of 1985, the number of people receiving special care and relief in China is1500,000, the affected population is 31600,000, and the disabled population is nearly 50 million, while there are only 49 100 beds in various welfare homes in urban and rural areas. There are only 1.5 million welfare enterprises, and the employment problem of most disabled people cannot be solved; There are no community service facilities. At present, there are still 1500 county-level units without welfare homes, and more than half of the villages do not have nursing homes. The original welfare homes and nursing homes are far from meeting the needs. There are about 900,000 orphans, the elderly and the disabled in the scattered society, especially in rural areas. About 50% of the existing welfare institutions in China, such as social welfare homes, glorious homes and disabled homes, are in urgent need of transformation; About 30% welfare institutions have no conventional medical equipment and professional doctors.
In addition, the increasing number of abandoned babies, the reconstruction of welfare facilities destroyed in disaster areas every year, the construction of shelter facilities for homeless children, the replacement of prosthetic limbs for revolutionary disabled soldiers, and the medical assistance for orphans and disabled children are becoming more and more prominent. These problems cannot be solved by government financial allocation alone. We must reform the original situation that the government arranges social welfare, implement the socialization of social welfare, take the road of social welfare reform, and open up channels for raising funds from the society. Issuing welfare lottery is the concrete embodiment of this reform idea.
1986 June 18, the Ministry of Civil Affairs officially submitted the "Request for Instructions on Launching Social Welfare Prize-winning Fundraising Activities" to the State Council. 65438+On February 20th, the State Council128th executive meeting discussed and agreed that the Ministry of Civil Affairs should organize a social welfare prize-winning fund-raising committee to carry out prize-winning fund-raising activities nationwide. 1February 5, 987, 12 The 323rd meeting of the Central Secretariat discussed and agreed in principle with the report of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, clearly pointing out that "no unit or individual may engage in similar prize-winning fund-raising activities except the social welfare fund-raising activities carried out by the civil affairs department". After the opinions of the Central Secretariat were reported to the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau, the Standing Committee members all agreed. On March 13, the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee and China People's Political Consultative Conference jointly held a symposium on social welfare prize-winning fund-raising activities. After full discussion, the 27 democratic parties present finally reached an agreement and agreed to carry out this work.
On June 3rd, 1987, China Social Welfare Prize-winning Fund-raising Committee was established in Beijing. At the same time, the first plenary meeting was held and the articles of association of the Committee were adopted. Clearly, the aim is to "unite people from all walks of life who are enthusiastic about social welfare, carry forward the socialist humanitarian spirit, raise social welfare funds, set up welfare undertakings for the disabled, the elderly and orphans, and help those in need", that is, "help the elderly and the disabled, and help the poor and the orphans". Subsequently, China Welfare Lottery Distribution Center was established as an issuer. On July 28th, 1987, the first batch of welfare lottery tickets was sold in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province.
Since 1987, the welfare lottery in China has maintained a steady development and a rising trend year by year with the great attention of civil affairs departments at all levels, direct leadership and joint efforts of relevant departments. The social welfare funds raised by issuing and selling welfare lottery tickets have become an important economic pillar for the development of social welfare in China.
According to statistics, from the listing of China Welfare Lottery in 1987 to 2004, the national welfare lottery sold a total of1216.28 million yuan and raised funds of 39.9325 billion yuan. Among them, 1 187 billion yuan is mainly used for social security, the construction and maintenance of extracurricular activities for young people, the Red Cross humanitarian cause, the cause of the disabled, funding local rural medical assistance, and preparing for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. 28 billion yuan is mainly used for social welfare undertakings such as "helping the elderly, helping the disabled, saving orphans and helping the poor". These funds have funded and built about 6.5438+0.3 million social welfare and public welfare projects nationwide. The issuance of welfare lottery has benefited millions of elderly people, disabled people, orphans and other groups with special difficulties in Qian Qian, effectively made up for the lack of financial investment in social welfare undertakings at all levels, eased the pressure on the government, and made great contributions to civil affairs reform and welfare undertakings.
At present, the annual sales of welfare lottery in China has increased from 1987 to17 million yuan to nearly 22.6 billion yuan in 2004. Tickets have developed from a single traditional type to a traditional type, that is, the instant opening type, the instant opening traditional combination type and the computer type, with dozens of varieties and thousands of pictures. Basically, a relatively complete welfare lottery game and sales system has been formed. Throughout the world lottery industry, although it has a history of more than 100 years, an important factor to promote its vigorous development is the application of high and new technologies such as computers, computer networks, wireless communication and satellite communication in the middle of this century, especially in recent years. Of the world lottery sales of $ 654.38+0998 of $ 654.38+0268 billion, computer lottery accounts for about 63.2%. It can be seen that the higher the level of science and technology, the more popular the lottery, the more vital it is. So is the welfare lottery in China. Since the implementation of computer ticketing, a series of changes have brought about a higher level of development of welfare lottery. 1995, after a long period of full and solid preparation, China Welfare Lottery Distribution Center first launched computer lottery distribution pilot projects in Guangdong, Hunan, Zhejiang, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Shenyang. Formulated the industry standard of computer lottery; Develop a quasi-hotline sales system; Introduce hotline system for bidding; The quasi-hotline sales system was piloted in Shanghai; Building a national computer lottery system monitoring center; In view of this work, a series of normative documents have been formulated and promulgated, which laid the foundation for the re-promotion of outlet sales forms. In 2000, this safer, more transparent, more scientific and more suitable sales method gradually matured and began to be promoted throughout the country, which was called "second venture" by people in the industry.
By 200 1, 10, after improvement and perfection, the "style series" computer welfare lottery tickets were all sold in 3 1 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities nationwide, which was a great success. The computer welfare lottery is distributed and operated in a mode of network sales, hierarchical management and complete marketization, and has introduced a large number of professional technology and marketing talents in various provinces (cities) successively, creating a high-quality welfare lottery distribution team and laying a solid foundation for the long-term development of the welfare lottery industry. With the listing of two-color ball and 3D in 2003 and 2004, the welfare lottery finally realized the strategic transformation from relatively backward real-time manual management to advanced computerized management distribution mode, and the welfare lottery sales system took the lead in completing the overall hotline transformation among peers in the country. In 2004, the welfare lottery was issued under the banner of "helping the elderly and the disabled, helping the poor and saving the orphans" and made a major breakthrough. In 2004, it sold a total of 22.6 billion yuan, raised 7.923 billion yuan for the public welfare fund, and turned it over to the state finance of 4.295 billion yuan, accounting for 54% of the amount raised by the public welfare fund in 2004, with the highest proportion and amount paid over the years.
Since the release of 17, Fucai has been insisting on raising funds for the development of welfare undertakings. The purpose of "supporting the elderly, helping the disabled, saving orphans and helping the poor" remains unchanged; The policy of healthy, orderly, safe operation and stable development remains unchanged; Responsible for the society and the people, the moral principle of consciously preventing and eliminating social negative effects in the design and sales operation of welfare lottery remains unchanged; Do not participate in vicious competition, do not engage in misleading propaganda, and adhere to the public opinion orientation of public welfare, ethics, mass and entertainment; The principles of "openness, transparency, participation" and accepting social supervision remain unchanged. Closely linking the development of welfare lottery with the development of social welfare undertakings and social welfare undertakings is the inheritance and development of traditional charitable fund-raising in the new situation, which is "taking from society, serving society, taking from the people and using it for the people". And through the introduction of foreign advanced technology to improve their own infrastructure construction, so that lottery sales are safer, more scientific and more reasonable; At the same time, carrying out ISO9000 quality management system certification activities has brought internal management to a new level.
At present, the market share of computer welfare lottery has become the "leader" in China lottery market, and it is playing an increasingly important and positive role in social welfare security and social welfare undertakings.