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Spring Festival Transportation Dilemma-demand Analysis Of Public Economics Perspective

Posted on:2015-06-09Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y FengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2296330431497137Subject:Public Finance
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During the Spring Festival, the migration of many kinds of people especially migrant workerscauses a spring festival transportation issue, thus forming a peculiar social phenomenon during ChineseSpring Festival. The Spring Festival passenger peak period exists every year and Chinese passengertransport supply always fails to meet passenger demand during the Spring Festival. Spring festivaltransportation has a strong social influence because it is closely related to every people. Therefore,understanding the causes of the problem and then raising countermeasures on the basis of those reasons isso important for every citizen, especially for our country.The spring festival transportation problem puzzles community and different scholars havedifferent views. Some economists believe that the monopoly causes this problem, however, othereconomists believe that the spring festival transportation is a special phenomenon accompanied byeconomic development. Sociologists believe it is generated due to the Chinese special spring conditions.Cultural scholars argue that the population movements during the Spring Festival due to our country’sunique cultural customs and nostalgic for home of Chinese people. Besides, industrial sectors consider thatthe inadequate capacity of our passenger transportation causes this big issue.As far as I’m concerned, although there are many reasons for the lack of rail capacity during theSpring Festival, but its essence is nothing more than these two reasons: strong demand and insufficientcapacity. Nearly two decades of social transformation in China brings highly mobile population, which alsobrought about a significant exaltation in the demand of Chinese railway transportation during the SpringFestival. But besides of the Spring Festival, Chinese railway transport capacity can fully meet the needs ofpeople, so this article will focus on how to reduce people’s demand during the Spring Festival.As we all know that migrant workers account for a large part of passenger flow during the SpringFestival, thus reducing the flow of migrant workers during the Spring Festival will relatively reduce thedemand for railway transportation. Because the railway supply of public goods need government, we aregoing to analyze the demand and supply of public goods, analyze that why migrant workers return homeduring the Spring Festival, I think it is mainly because that their parents, children are forced to stay home. For this question we have to consider why we can’t bring the parents and children to the workplace city.For this, as we have said: Firstly, the regional economic development situation of Chinese sociality is thatthe eastern region has extremely rapid development, the central region development is slow and the westernregional development lag is obvious. An unbalanced regional development have resulted in populationfrom economic development to the economic development of poorer areas with better flow; Secondly,urban and rural areas have heavy disparities in the areas of household disposable income, social security,education and other subject areas, which will result in large-scale urban migration of rural surplus labor,The difference between urban and rural development, making the majority of the population tends to flowto the cities reap the benefits of the urban population; Thirdly, Because of China’s current dual householdregistration system has led to population movements is not complete, so there is only a floating populationof migrant workers whose families can not flow personal mobility phenomenon. Even if individual workerscan flow, the workers can not enjoy all the city’s social security policy. Eventually we proposecountermeasures to solve the problem according to these three areas.As far as I’m concerned, On the one hand from the suggestions on how to promote balancedregional development. First, the strategy should be taken to optimize the development of the eastern region;Second, to increase investment in the central region, to achieve long-term development of the central region;Finally, full use of resources in the western region, and deepen the western development strategy.Ultimately achieve coordinated development of the eastern, central and western regions of the three; On theother hand increase the urban and rural household registration system reform. First, the city should increasepublic services and infrastructure investment, so that migrant workers can enjoy the city’s social security;Second, reform of the household registration system should be gradual, taking into account all aspects ofsocial development in the reform, the reform measures can make smooth implementation; Finally, the roleof government to strengthen macro-control in the household registration reform, so that migrants are morein line with the laws of social development. Eventually I hope that through these two aspects of the reform,so that the amount of population movements during the Spring Festival can be reduced to ease the "SpringFestival" fundamental dilemma.
Keywords/Search Tags:Spring festival transportation dilemma, Flow of migrant workers, Balancing regionaldevelopment, System of dual-structure household register
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