Benefits Evaluation Of The Chinese Government Fiscal Investment In Agriculture

Agriculture is the foundation of the national economy, the assurance of social stability and national prosperity. As a special industry, agriculture has the characteristic of weakness. The importance and speciality of agriculture demands the input of government finance. China, as a developing country, the scale of investment in agriculture is much smaller than the developed countries because of its limited financial resources. In addition to these factors, the pattern of the fiscal investment in agriculture should be adjusted after China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO). So it is necessary to speed up the reform of finance system, to form the public finance system suited to the socialist market economy, to improve the overall benefits (including economic benefits, ecological benefits, and social benefits) of the fiscal investment in agriculture.Firstly, this article presents the relevant theories of the benefits of government fiscal investment in agriculture all-sidedly and systematically. Secondly, it analyses the necessity of the evaluating the benefits of the fiscal investment in agriculture, and puts forward the countermeasures of optimizing the behavior of fiscal investment in agriculture. Thirdly, it applies the Delphi Method to design a indicator system for evaluation of the benefits of the Chinese government fiscal investment in agriculture. Lastly, the article introduces two methods by which the indicator system can be applied to evaluate the benefits of the fiscal investment in agriculture.