Researches On Governmental Responsibilities In Investment System Of Public Universities And Colleges In China

Since the reform and opening up begins, China’s higher education has also made leapsand bounds, with the improvement of socio-economic development levels.The scale of highereducation continues to expand, and becomes the first in the world, and this is the inevitablerequirement for the development of higher education popularization. The development ofChina’s higher education, particularly for the public universities,can not do without the strongsupport of the national finance, but with the acceleration of the process of higher educationpopularization in China, the government’s financial investment to public colleges anduniversities is obviously inadequate, while in the process of getting the non-financial funds inpublic universities,the government is also lack of the strong support of inrelated systems andpolicy, making college weak the absorptive capacity of the social funds, have a single mode offinancing, and be lack of multi-channel funding system, and the contradiction between supplyand demand of China’s public universities performes significantly. This is closely related tothe perfection or imperfection of the investment system of public universities and collegesand the government’s implementation of the duties to the public universities and colleges.Based on the theory of public goods, education cost-sharing theory and the theory of publicaffairs, closely centered with the practice of reform and development of investment system ofpublic universities and colleges, combined with China’s economic development level anddevelopment status of public universities, this article analyzes the vigor of government’sfinancial support to the public universities, institutions, policies and other issuescomprehensively, and through empirical research, analyzes and summarizes theresponsibilities of government in investment system of public universities, and also analyzesand learns the experience and revelation the foreign countries how to improve investmentsystem of public universities and implement the Government’s responsibilities for publiccolleges and universities. On this basis,this article proposes suggestions to improve theinvestment system of public universities, strengthen the government’s responsibilities forpublic universities, which is of great significance to improve the plight of inadequate fundingof our public universities and promote the reasonable healthful development of highereducation.