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A Study Of The Functional Transition Of Chinese Township Governments Since 16th CPC Conference

Posted on:2009-11-23Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:B CengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166360245465757Subject:Administrative Management
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Township governments, as the ground level administrative organization, which play an important role in the rural political, economical, cultural, and living activities, are the root to consolidate the entire regime. To what level the governmental functions implement directly effect political democracy construction, economic development, and social stability in the countryside. Since our modernization is following developed and drove by outside forced, the political democracy development depends on the government pushing, and rural democracy including villager self-governance cannot go without the support and direct of the township governments. As the time goes on, the core work of the township governments is changed, and following the rural economic institution reform in 1970s, China have started township government reform for several times, which focused on the function transition. However, the reform fell in the dilemma of"subtracting, expanding, re-subtracting, re-expanding", and the functions of the township didn't fundamentally transited as it's widespread of functional overriding, dislocating ,and underplaying. On the one hand, the township government directly participates economic operating, makes agriculture decision for the farmers, and interferes the"villagers self-governance", which impedes the rural market economic development and infringes the farmers legal rights; on the other hand, the government cannot perfectly implement the policies, do administration and supervision, or provide enough public goods and services.About the township institutional reform, the"deletion theory","expedition theory"and"autonomy theory"are popular currently, but all these arguments are too radical and partially emphasize the negative influence of the township. By studying the history of the Chinese township, this article opinions that the status and function of the township cannot be declined in the new period of building socialist new-countryside and constructing harmonious socialism, but focus on function transition while contracting the township institutions. According to foreign experience of township function installation and the times requiring, the township should focus its functions on providing public goods and services and administrating social affaires, specifically working for integral planning, developing economy, organizing and coordinating to guarantee local democracy, shape new farmers, and provide public goods, etc.There are many reasons to explain why the township implements its function incorrectly and insufficiently, for the pressured administrative system, organization arrangement featured with"bar and block", the township finance crisis, the lower-qualified government workers, etc. In order to change smoothly effectively the township functions, the reform should concentrate on change the pressured administrative system to build a harmoniously democratic administrative ecology, separating the government and firms to build rural markets, separating the government and the villager self-governance organizations to accelerate rural democracy, reform township finance to building an integral finance system for city-countryside, start an effective township public goods and services supply system ,and do personnel reforms, and so on.
Keywords/Search Tags:Township government, Function orientation, Functional transition, Reform path
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