Is Counterpart Aid Policy Effective?

Partner assistance,from the beginning of the proposal to the implementation of the pilot,has gradually formed a relatively perfect system with a wide range of coverage,which has also been a valuable institutional innovation that fully combines the unique social background,development stage,social governance,system construction with other requirements into practice.Partner assistance is also an indispensable Chinese programme to achieve coordinated regional development.The existing partner assistance system plays an important role in the reconstruction of disasters,the economic and social development of backward areas,areas inhabited by ethnic minorities and border areas and the front line of overcoming poverty.At present,China's economic development has entered the "new normal ".As the economic growth rate has slowed,the industrial structure is facing transformation and upgrading,the supply-side reform is imminent and the regional differences have expanded,all of them has seriously restricted the sustainable development of our economy.In 2010,the first national Conference on Counterpart Assistance to Xinjiang identified 82 counties in Xinjiang supported by 19 provinces and cities across the country from industry,capital,technology,talent,education and other ways to carry out comprehensive assistance to Xinjiang.For the first time,this paper attempts to explain the employment effect of the policy of counterpart aid to Xinjiang.This paper looks at the policy of counterpart aid to Xinjiang as a quasi-natural experiment.Using the employment index between 2003 and 2016,this paper makes an empirical analysis of the employment effect of counterpart aid policy from the dimensions of absolute employment volume and employment relative amount,namely employment scale and employment change.All robustness tests and the basic test results all verified the promotion path of this employment effect,but the effect of counterpart aid policy on the employment scale of urban units was not significant.Because of the law of diminishing marginal income,the employment effect brought by the policy of aiding Xinjiang is more significant in southern Xinjiang with poor initial resource endowment.The policy of counterpart aid to Xinjiang exerts indirect employment promotion effect by promoting industrial upgrading,increasing fiscal expenditure and accumulation of human capital in the recipient areas,which proves that the policy of counterpart aid to Xinjiang plays a positive employment effect and promotes the increase of people's well-being.In the nine years since the implementation of the new policy of counterpart aid to Xinjiang,there is less and less room for aid between the supporting parties and the receiving parties,and more should be carried out in a market-oriented way of economic cooperation in order to realize the long-term development of the recipient areas and the withdrawal mechanism of the supporting areas.