Countermeasure Research Of Promoting Equalization Of Basic Public Services In Xiaoshan Urban And Rural Areas

With fast development of economy and society, the gap between urban and ruralareas, region and region as well as different groups becomes bigger and bigger. Inrecent years, the Party Central Committee have made decision of building a well-offsociety in an all-round way, promoting new urbanization, accelerating integration ofFour Modernizations, as well as expanding domestic demand, whose core objective isspeeding up the integration of urban and rural areas, and the key point is whether thecountryside can provide basic public services equal to that in urban areas. It playsactive role and means important to gradually realize equalization of basic publicservices for narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas, region and region aswell as different groups. And it is a major strategic decision-making in the period ofeconomic transition and social transformation. In the present situation, nationaldepartments at all levels are exploring path of realizing equalization of basic publicservices in urban and rural areas. Due to the public characteristics of basic publicservices, it needs a lot of financial investment of local government. As one of pioneersof opening-up and reform, Xiaoshan has witnessed steady and fast development withthe comprehensive strength listed among top10of national county-level cities.Xiaoshan’s basic public services have obtained great progress and obviousachievements, so it has ability to make exploration and practice, providing path choicefor breaking urban and rural economic structure and building equal basic publicservices supplying system.This thesis approaches logical analysis, literature survey, empirical analysis andtheoretical analysis methods to make deep research and analysis of equalization ofbasic public services in Xiaoshan. Firstly, the thesis explains the necessity andurgency of the research from the perspectives of national new demand, provincial newmeasures and people’s new expects, and summarize relative research achievementsand points out a contrast. Secondly, through a comparative study of unequal supplybasic public services between region and region, urban and rural areas, as well townand town, it analyses problems of basic public service supply. It also analyses three reasons of unequal situation from the aspects of historical point and financial systemthat is urban-rural dual structure, public finance system and public service supplymechanism. Lastly, based on the situation and momentum of Xiaoshan economic andsocial development, the thesis gives proposals and suggestions from the aspects ofgeneral idea, institutional innovation and mission route. It puts forward institutionalinnovation in some key areas consist of deepening the reform of the householdregistration system, guarantying fair supply of public service funds, exploring thediversification of public service supply mechanism and setting up a decision-makingmechanism based on people’s demand feedback, to achieve eight development goalsincluding promoting employment, social security, education, medical service, publicculture service, infrastructures, ecological environment and public security.