Study Of The Status Of The Chinese Government And The Public Colleges And Universities Financial Analysis And Direction Of Reform

This study is based on the theory of Public Goods, which is used as a tool of analysis. First, the study analyses the nature of higher education, and its supply pattern corresponding to its nature. The analysis makes it clear that higher education is a typical quasi-public-goods, which has high externality. The country and the society, are the main exterior beneficiary. So the expenses of higher education should be shared by the government and educatees, and so it's government's duty to give primarily finical support to the public universities and colleges. In China, the relationship between government and public colleges is somewhat unbalanced. The universities and colleges have no option but passively accepting the finical funds distributed from the government. As the scale of higher education expands, especially after the leap of 1999, the problems of the unbalance relationship between government and public colleges became worse: the finical funds which public universities and colleges demand are badly inadequate, and the way of distributing the funds is not reasonable enough, too. In order to find something to solve these problems, the study introduces the western countries'patterns and ways of dealing with these problems, and make a compare with China. At last, the study tries to give some suggestions to the adjusting of the relationship between government and public colleges. These suggestions including: impelling the government to afford enough financial funds by the means of making law, repaying the public colleges'debts due to the nonfeasance of government, balancing the distribution financial funds in colleges at different levels and regions, founding agency between government and public colleges, supervising the usage of financial funds in colleges.