Research On Self-development Path Of Local Rural Culture In Gansu Province

Public cultural service is a fundamental public service. It is the important basis of the construction of socialism mass culture, as well as an important content of cultural and ethical civilization. To judge whether a local government is a service-oriented one, one also has to see whether its rural public cultural services are well-balanced and improved. Gansu province has its own special humanities environment, ethnic groups’structure as well as cultural forms. However, it is rather arduous to carry out the public cultural services in some of its remote rural areas, mainly restricted by its cruel natural environments, limited economic conditions as well as its defective system and mechanisms. The ignorance of the peasants for their own cultural rights and deficiency of their sense of participation also made the implementation of public cultural services in countryside beset with difficulties.In recent years, a few cultural self-organizations of such kind have sprung up in Gansu Province--they are founded by the peasants themselves; hold a variety of cultural and recreational activities voluntarily; and manage related social affairs on their own. The objective of these organizations is to make sure that the cultural demands along with hobbies and interests of the peasants could be satisfied. The localization, autonomy, and non-profit natures of these self-organizations tally with the characteristics of pluralism, fairness and public welfare of public cultural service. These attributes have determined that the local cultural self-organizations could utilize more advantages and resources while carrying out the rural public cultural services. To build a service-oriented government, it needs to decentralize the authority reasonably as well as encourage social organizations to participate in the construction of rural culture. It is also necessary to push forward the pluralism and the social development of the public cultural service providers. However, since these cultural organizations are still in their initial stages of exploration, the insufficiency of funds and talented human resources, unicity of the forms of the events, limited influence in the countryside, lack of attractiveness to the peasants, as well as the shortage of support from local government have all the made the development of these organizations seriously constrained. In the implementation of rural public cultural services, the deficiency of the government functions must be filled up by the farmers’ organizations themselves, but the weak strength of the rural organizations is bound to lead the construction of the rural public cultural service system to imperfection. Thus, how to foster and support the development and growth of farmers’cultural self-organizations has become a problem that needs to be solved as soon as possible. For this purpose, this thesis attempt sat analysing the create procedure, operational features and sustenance predicament of these cultural self-originations, discussing the shift of the government role from leading to supporting/cooperating in the development of these organizations, and tries to seek the path of their sustainable development in order to give full play to the functions and roles of the rural cultural self-originations, so that they could fulfil the public cultural needs of the rural masses.