Problems And Solutions With The Governments Of Villages And Towns Transforming Their Functions

Transforming the functions of the governments of villages and towns is the key point of reforming the administration of rural areas, which is difficult and faced with resistance and complicated problems. Present functions of the governments of villages and towns are sharply contradictory to political and economical situations of rural development, which need transforming urgently. Therefore, the study of function-transforming of the governments of villages and towns is becoming a difficult and urgent subject. Based on the facts of Pingyang County and combining practice and theories, this article carefully examines the existing problems of the functions of the governments of villages and towns, analyzes the difficulty in transforming their functions, sets the goals for transforming them and finally designsthe routines to transform their functions--provide legal support; deepen the reformof the organizations; reform the related authority and responsibility between county and towns; push the autonomy of the villagers; straight out the relation between the Party and the government, etc.Transforming the functions of the governments of villages and towns is a complicated systematic program, involving various aspects, a program which keeps improving with the establishment of the socialism market economy system. In the present reformation of the administration of villages and towns, the obtaining point of the reformation is not features of the local governments but features of the local work; not "what to do" but what "we're asked to do". During the time when the urban areas supports the rural areas, when cities, towns and villages develop co-operatively, the governments of villages and towns should strengthen social administration and public service functions in a practical way, trying to construct a government of public service.