Equalization Of Basic Public Services In Rural Areas Construction Problems And Countermeasures

Basic public services is built on the basis of certain social consensus, providedby the government-led, and economic and social development levels and stages toadapt to safeguard the survival and development of public services to all citizens’basic needs. Equalization of basic public services, including three meanings: First,the State or local government shall basic public services and standards to make clearthat their areas of jurisdiction; second refers to nearly all residents should have thefinancial capacity of basic public services, central government (or provincialgovernment) must ensure that they have this ability; three refers to where ourresidents, regardless of urban and rural areas should be entitled to basic services andfacilities close to the right and opportunity. Promoting rural equalization of basicpublic services is significant, namely to promote the equalization of basic publicservices in rural areas to achieve the construction of urban-rural integration goalssignificance in promoting China’s economic development has special significancefor achieving the goal of a harmonious society has a very significance of theurban-rural dual structure system crack is important and so on. Basic public servicesin accordance with state regulations, such as five-year plan, the rural basic publicservices include the following aspects: public education, employment services, socialsecurity, basic social services, health care, family planning, housing security, publicculture basic public services.On the northern Jiangsu Guanyun, its construction equalization of basic publicservices has made the following major achievements: First, the rural basic publicservices to further increase investment; Second, the equalization of basic publicservices in rural areas achieved initial success; Third is to promote reform,broadening the supply channels to promote the equalization of basic public servicesin rural areas; Fourth, social participation of rural basic public services continues toincrease. However, due to the urban bias of the dual structure, division of central andlocal government functions unclear property rights and powers do not match, theexisting system of transfer payments is unreasonable, insufficient participation offarmers, poor social channels to express willingness to participate, as well as thesupply of basic public services mechanism has not been established and otherreasons, the problem of non-equality of basic public services is still very prominent.Guanyun look at the issue from a situation of non-equality of basic public servicesmainly for the supply of the total lack of basic public services in rural areas, between urban and rural inequality problem is very prominent internal supply and demand aswell as supply the body with the irrational structure of single way. Summarized andthe equalization of basic public services development experience, starting from thespecific situation in Northern Guanyun, promote equalization of basic publicservices, develop strategies include: strengthening people’s livelihood and publicservices, strengthen the government for rural functions to provide basic publicservices, and explore diverse mechanisms underlying the development of publicservices, improve farmers’ needs to express the Government’s response mechanismand a mechanism to optimize the rural basic public services, such as financialpayment transfer system.