An Analysis Of The Democratic Grading System Of Songjiang Family Farm

For the household contract responsibility system, the large-scaleagricultural operation is an important innovation, which is of greatsignificance to improve the efficiency of agricultural production and promoteagricultural modern in China. In recent years, with the encouragement andsupport from the central government, many areas of our country explore theways for family farm development, and achieve good development results.Shanghai Songjiang District family farm is one of the typical representatives,which the most significant difference from other arrears isdemocratic evaluation system: determining the final family farm operator bythe village cadres, the old party members, the old captain and representativesof public opinion democratic. This system can choose the best managers offamily farm in favor of standardization, institutionalization, and has apositive significance on the steady development of Songjiang family farm.To study this system, we must understand its path first.After examining the democratic evaluation system of Songjiang familyfarms from the perspective of historical institutionalism, the author think thatsystem is the joint action result of internal contradictions and externalenvironment. The first is the contradiction existing in the original system:There are two main groups of contradictions under the household contractresponsibility system.1, The contradiction between decentralizedmanagement of land and land intensive utilization is the main cause ofdemocratic evaluation system.2, Multi-family farm applicants and limitednumber of family farms contradiction, which is assessing the real reason forthe democratic system generated. Second, changes in the externalenvironment also contributed to the generation of democratic evaluationsystem. Changes in the external environment are mainly reflected in thefollowing aspects:1, National macro-policy environment conditions began toencourage suitable regions to explore the way of local family farmdevelopment.2, Songjiang social environment changes, the percentage ofpeople scratched out their living from the soil has been reduced. Third, inrecent years, some new ideas have been accepted by local resident andbecome the mainstream in Songjiang, which also cause democraticevaluation system generation. The concentrated expression is enhanced in thegovernment service concept, the villager’s democratic consciousness, andeconomic consciousness. Fourth, the Songjiang areas of the villagecommittee in the rural governance have adopted democratic evaluationsystem, determining the path dependence of conduction to the family farm operators. Fifth, a series of measures which the government of SongjiangDistrict taken in the key nodes has been continuously consolidated thesystem. In addition, from the perspective of structural functionalism, thestatus and role of the village committee, the family applicants and villagers inthe democratic evaluation system are determined by democratic evaluationsystem’s functions and objectives, and in turn affect the achievement ofobjectives and functions.Researching Songjiang democratic evaluation system is conducive tolearn experience better for other areas. The author thinks that building familyfarms, we have something to do. First, create a favorable social environmentfor family farms, guide and standardize the land transfer, the promotion ofnon-farm employment of labor. Second, establish the modern concept whichis consistent with the requirements of the modern market economy. Finally,the government should do something for the establishment of family farmsand provide the conditions for the system establishment.