Township Government Examination And Evaluation System Analysis&Application Research

With the rising of modern public administration theory and the speeding up of social democracy progress, there is an increasing demand to our governments and cadres over all levels. Aiming at pushing forward the establishment of accountable governments, and promoting the restructuring of governments’obligations to a better level so as to achieve scientific developments of economy and society, there must be a set of scientific and rational examination and evaluation methods to measure and motivate our work. Effective examination and evaluation indexes shall strongly extend their behavior-guiding functions, clarify and intensify the focuses and directions of the work. Comparing to this, our government performance evaluation systems has no longer adapted to the requirements at current new stage. For example, our examination and evaluation indexes are so single that they’re only based on economy section, namely GDP index prevails all indexes. This leads to a discordant, asynchronous, and unsustainable development of society and economy, and even causes great waste of natural resources and environment pollutions. A set of scientific and rational government examination and evaluation system can not only steering scientific growth, but also refreshing administration working styles and restructuring the government obligations.Township governments, as the base level in our nation’s administrative system, shall be the most basic component unit in our administration and economy structure, and are the principal part in development of our country’s rural economy. Directly linking to common peasants, the staffs of township governments focus on the main body of their work, namely Three Rural Issues, and act as the first person responsible in rural economy development, improving rural public services and practicing preferential policies to rural people. As to superior governments, whether their commitments can be achieved or ultimate result be succeed or failure, are directly depended on the performance of these basic administrative staffs. County governments, as the direct superiors to township government staffs, has to pressing their subordinates to divide and achieve working targets, so as to solidify laws and policies from their superiors, practice assumed working targets, and achieve self-development plan under the pressure of evaluation system. Therefore, the setup and improvement of the examination and evaluation system of township governments will act as an important dominant force in evaluating township-governments’working efforts and effectiveness in promoting rural economy, strengthening public services as well as solidifying policies that benefit farmers, and at the same time, driving administration at basic level in a stable and effective way, and implementing the function restructuring of township governments. Meanwhile, it will facilitate optimal configuration of township resources and shift more resources to three fields (agriculture, country, peasants) that relevant to rural economy by involving those evaluation indexes in accordance with township reality and government accountability into examination methods, such as modern agriculture development, irrigation and water conservancy construction, scientific education, culture and health management, and basic democracy system administration, etc. Besides, it will also solidify agricultural basis, optimize rural development circumstance, and increase peasants’earnings, so as to solve Three Rural Issues and speed up the overall development of urban-rural areas.This article, based on case analysis method, chooses the county of Lixin, which exemplifies the effectiveness of township government examination and evaluation system and its application, as its object of study, and extends its argument from Ten Projects Program of New Socialist Countryside Development in Lixin county to illustrate how a county administration establish township government examination and evaluation system and intensify the application of evaluation result, so as to give full play to examination and evaluation system as development baton, which has helped the county of Lixin to achieve a leaping progress in a short period of time, and arouse great concern all across the province. This research, by looking at relevant documents and making detailed description to the examination index system itself, as well as measuring and processing evaluation statistics between the year of2009-2012, put forward several suggestions and improvement plan on the application of this system, and expects to offer helpful reference to the establishment of evaluation system of other county administrations, and ultimately to achieve coupling between evaluation system and economy as well as society.