Research On The Chinese Rural Cultural Service System

In the early stages of socialist development,the aim of developing productive capacity is to fulfill the soaring material and cultural demands of people.Cultural demand is one of the basic needs of the people.Every citizen has the right to cultural demands.The cultural rights of a citizen are basic human rights and should be protected.The rural cultural service system not only helps to protect and preserve the cultural rights of rural residents,it also meets their spiritual and cultural needs.Furthermore,the rural cultural service system enables to construct new socialist rural culture.This study conducts a deep and systematic research into the Chinese rural cultural service system.It focuses on interpreting the goals,constitution,characteristics,history and current situation of the rural cultural service system of China.Additionally,it concentrates on methods to improve the Chinese rural cultural service system.This research aims to ensure both theoretical value and practical significance.It targets to protect the cultural rights of rural residents,to speed up the construction of socialist new rural culture and to achieve the harmonious development of the rural economy,culture and society.This dissertation constitutes the preface and the seven chapters.Its overall framework,main contents and the basic points of view are as follows:The preface introduces the background and the significance of studying the cultural service system in rural areas.It also defines the culture service,the culture service system and rural cultural service system.Furthermore,the author attempts to provide a panorama of related research results and analyses the results.The research methodology employed in the study is discussed in this section.The first chapter discusses the theoretical basis of the study of the rural cultural service system.The author collects and investigates the previous literature on countryside,peasants and rural culture written by the marxist classical writers and the Chinese Communist Party.On the basis of the previous literature,this paper explains the basic ideas of these thoughts.Also,it briefly describes the public goods theory and the cultural industry theory.The second chapter evaluates the goal,elements and characteristics of rural cultural service system.The cultural service system in rural areas focuses on the spiritual and cultural needs of the rural residents.In addition,it provides cultural services for the rural areas,which is made up of structural and supportive elements.The cultural service system in rural areas includes public cultural services,market-driven services and self-services of community organizations.The rural cultural service system is characterized by serving the rural residents,supplying cultural services and diversification of service resources.A retrospective study is conducted in the third chapter.The paper reviews the history of development of the rural cultural service system from the reform and opening up in 1978 to present.It analyzes the three stages of the development of rural cultural service system in detail.The three stages include the stage that highlighted public cultural undertakings,the stage that prioritized the public cultural service,and the stage that emphasized the diversification of cultural service.At the same time,on the basis of empirical research,the current situation of the rural cultural service system is described and the existing problems and its causes are scrutinized.The fourth chapter centers on techniques to strengthen the public cultural services in rural areas and proposes suggestions.The measures recommended are strengthening the construction of the public cultural service organizations,making good use of the investment in the public cultural services and the realization of equalization of public cultural services.Chapter five reviews on methods to improve the market-driven cultural services in the rural areas.Considering the unique requirements of developing the cultural services in rural areas,this paper offers 3 suggestions.It consists of improving the rural cultural market players,converging the cultural resources in the rural market and upgrading the market structure of rural cultural products.In chapter six,the study assessed the means to enhance the self-service capacity of the rural cultural community organizations.It is recommended that the Party and the government should offer the rural cultural community organizations greater guidance and management.Additionally,the internal construction of the rural culture and community organizations should be strengthened.Furthermore,the service quality should be improved and the service scope should also be extended.Chapter 7 offers a holistic approach to improve the cultural service system in rural areas.It is believed that the study on the rural cultural service system should be carried out in combination with its specific social and historical background.Three basic requirements are interpreted in this chapter.To be specific,it is essential to highlight the socialist culture with Chinese characteristics,to adhere to the social involvement and guidance of the government,and coordinate the process of integrating the urban and rural areas.In addition,this paper also analyzes the role of the public cultural services,market-driven services and self-services in rural cultural service system and the interaction between them.Finally,it proposes that the public cultural services,market-driven services and self-services should coordinate,cooperate and interact to improve the rural cultural service system.There are mainly three creative aspects in this thesis.Firstly,it is reviewed from a new perspective.Traditionally,the rural cultural service is equal to the public cultural service.This paper involves the market-driven services and self-services of the community organizations in the study,which is a breakthrough.Secondly,this paper examines the constitution of rural cultural service system.It also analyses the role of different types of cultural services in the rural cultural service system and the logical relations between them,which adds new content to the existing research.Thirdly,it is a creative viewpoint that the rural culture service system consists of the public cultural service,market-driven services and self-services of the community organizations.