Research On The Market-oriented Reform Of Sanitation Services In Z District Of Guangzhou

The idea of public service marketization has become the core theme of the reform in various countries since 1970 s and has gradually evolved into the mainstream of social system reform in today's world.After 1990 s,the trend of public service marketization in western countries slowed down and the phenomenon of reversal marketization appeared.Reversal marketization refers to the practice of government departments taking back the outsourced public service projects,which also happens in the field of public service marketization reform in China,attracting the attention of scholars from different fields who begin to research and even question on the area of “public service marketization”.To study the development of environmental sanitation services marketization,present a picture of environmental sanitation services marketization reform,and explore the main problems and causes existing in environmental sanitation services marketization reform with special attention to the phenomenon of reversal marketization,this paper studies the concept of environmental sanitation services marketization,the typical sample of public services marketization,as the breakthrough point with the case of Z district of Guangzhou city and adopts the methods of literature analysis,comparative analysis,case analysis and semi-structured interviews with the guidance of public management theories.After studying and learning from the experience of environmental sanitation services practice domestically and abroad,the countermeasures of improving the marketization reform are found,which include:Firstly,the environmental sanitation services in Z district of Guangzhou city has evolved from the stages of completely independent management,marketization evolution to reversal marketization,and now is in the status of incomplete marketization with the coexistence of independent management and outsourcing services.Secondly,the environmental sanitation services marketization is a process of gradual development and continuous improvement while the emergence of reversal marketization is not a retrogression of environmental sanitation services marketization but a short period in its course,and marketization is still the direction of industry development.Thirdly,to deepen the reform of environmental sanitation services marketizationpractice,the government in Z district of Guangzhou City shall take measures such as establish and improve the legal system,enrich ways of marketization,strengthen the government's public responsibility consciousness,construct a contract risk management mechanism,improve the supervision system,constantly improve the sanitation service efficiency and so on.