A Study On Functions Of County Government In Rural Highway Maintenance

Rural highways -- as the main transportation infrastructure in rural area, are directly related to the peasants' lives and production,is an important component of the construction of socialist new countryside and development of the rural economy."Want to get rich, first build roads", is the truth of building up a fortune in rural and urban area. Rural highway maintenance supply is the major issue during the process of China's urban and rural development and the well-off society's construction. After the completion of the massive rural highways,"partly building, mostly maintenance","partly repairing, mostly maintenance"is our aim to consolidate construction of rural highways. Due to the limited funding, the construction of rural highways standard level is relatively low. The rural roads are lack of effective assigned management because of the irresponsible duty-serviced local county governments, unclear maintenance doers, maintenance fund shortage, low quality maintenance management and imperfect maintenance system, which led to the phenomenon that"First year built, second year lost, third year became big ditch",leading to low function of the rural highway maintenance service, seriously hindering the development of rural economy and the improvement of farmers' quality of life.This paper based on the public goods theory and management theory, the new public service theory, using the theoretical basis of the diachronic analysis and empirical and theoretical analysis, adopts the new bottom-up perspective on the county government functions on rural highway maintenance. Through QiXian rural highway maintenance in the county government historical retrospection, the paper is to analyze the main county government function and the role in the rural highway maintenance, seeks to promote rural highway maintenance county government effective path to speed up the construction of the new socialist countryside, promoting agricultural and rural pace of modernization. From the perspective of county government of jurisdiction, providing public products is the government public affairs management function, and providing public products and public service for residents is the core function of government, but the reality is deviated from its normal track. Relocating the role of county government and functional position, solving their problems, and functional dislocation absence can better promote the construction of a new socialist countryside.This paper argues that government function in rural highway maintenance : first, maintenance responsibility subject function. Rural highway management maintenance system reform, within the jurisdiction of the people's government at the county level is rural highway management responsibility subjects, responsible for maintenance raise and manage rural highway maintenance funds, formulating within the jurisdiction of the detailed rules for the implementation of rural highway maintenance. Second, the investment subject function. Rural highway endemic quasi-public product, service object, the governments at county level is the mass of rural highway maintenance should intensify the financial support, and it is to maintain the fundamental guarantee of the rural roads. Third, planning and decision-making functions. The governments at county level should combine the new rural reconstruction goal and the actual demand of rural to make plans for rural highway maintenance and maintenance funds make scientific and rational decisions. Fourth, the policy guidance and intellectual property protection function. The governments at county level through appropriate policies to guide and reasonable incentive mechanism, make non-governmental sectors for rural highway maintenance to provide additional funds. Fifth, management and supervision function. The governments at county level shall conscientiously perform managerial supervision function. The government should establish by different means, of all-around and multi-level supervision system, and the supply of rural highway maintenance process and effectively supervise use process.In order to perform good rural highways maintenance and build a new socialist countryside, the county government should adapt to the development of market economy and transfer their focus to the public services for farmers so as to provide better infrastructure conditions for the rural production and life.