我国现行的社会养老保险制度是上个世纪50年代初建立起来的。自上个20世纪80年代中期开始,我国开始对单位养老保险制度进行改革,政府相继出台了一系列有关政策,逐步确立了现行的社会统筹与个人帐户相结合的社会养老保险制度。它对退休职工的生活保障、维护社会的安定团结和社会 China’s current social pension insurance system was established in the early 1950s. Since the mid-1980s, China started to reform its pension system. The government has successively promulgated a series of relevant policies and gradually established the existing system of social pension insurance that integrates social pooling with personal accounts. It guarantees the lives of retired workers and safeguarding social stability and unity