The Plight Of The Township Government In The New Period, And Reform Trends

Improving the government's social management and public service functions and accelerating the development of a service-oriented government are the ways to adapt the socialist market economic system, are an important trend and direction of China's current reform of the administration system. Town government administrative system which levels between the county and village administrative system is the lowest level of local administrative units. It manifests the separation of powers between the government and rural residents. Along with the reform of rural taxes and fees and implementation of villager autonomy system, accelerating the reform of the township government system, establishing a new village governance structure suitable for China's national conditions and local actual conditions have become the hot and difficult issues the government at all levels and the theoretical circles concern about. Centering on the township government system, domestic academia has proposed different policy positions, such as"strengthen township","weaken township","revolve township","rural county political faction village administration"and"township autonomy"and so on. But there are serious divergence that whether to"weaken"or to"enhance"the township, whether it should be"administrative"or be"autonomy". And debate of the future of the township government is also quite fierce. In the new era, the township government is facing a serious of outstanding problems: unsound system, poor running, unclear functions, difficult finance and so on. (so the government should) find out the reasons, put forward the township government reform measures in a target manner, gasp the reform trend and realize the effective connection between the county administrative system and rural grass-roots social structure in order to provide institutional guarantees for a well-off society in all aspects in rural areas. By studying the village politic governance structure of traditional China and the evolve of the management model of a modern township, (the government should) understand the functions position of the existing township organizations; face up to the problems before the township government in the new era: the unsound township's leadership, the seriously divided latter, and the relationships from top to bottom which are difficult to dealt and the financial difficulties in town; analyze comprehensively and strengthen township construction; raise up the"rural county","township autonomy"and such kinds of various policy and proposals about the township government's reform; analyze such conditions as"imperial power beyond the county","multi-level","township financial difficulties"and"the problems of township government"; retreat the theoretical basis of the township government; gasp the principles of the reform of township government: transform its functions, make the powers and responsibilities same, streamline the efficiency. Then the government should sort out and sum up the specific and lively practice of township government reform in Chongqing Municipality and Qingyuan County in Zhejiang Province; further clarify the reform ideas of township government. Judging from the reality in China's large rural population, the undeveloped economy and the urgent need to strengthen the basic level, the importance in present should focus on the change of the functions from management model to service-oriented model; strengthen the functions of public service and social management, emphasize the constructions of service-oriented, legality-oriented, and efficiency-oriented Township Government, so as to better adapt to the need to improve the socialist market economic system and coordinate urban and rural development. So, (the government should) grasp correctly the direction and trend of the construction of China's rural democracy, hold the"township autonomy"as the long-term goal of the township government's reform, step by step, actively explore all kinds of effective implementation; gradually explore and extend the villager autonomy to the rural autonomy; reform the township leaders'selection and appointment, deepen the integrated reform; unify all levels and advance in whole; improve the leadership of grass-roots party organization, and constantly expand the limits of grass-roots autonomy.