After The Abolition Of Agricultural Tax, Village Governance In Poor Areas Studied

The policy of abolishment of agricultural tax in China last year has given great chance for the prosperity of Chinese countryside and thorough progress of Chinese agriculture. At the same time, it has aroused chain reaction in country grass roots work in many respects. On the aspect of the influence of the abolishment of agricultural tax on grass roots work, the existing works focus on discussing economic resources that can be derived by rural governance. Very few works discuss other situations about rural governance. In this paper, the author has reviewed the references related to the topic of governance on village-level and deduced the framework of the study on rural governance in poor area after the abolishment of agricultural tax. The author of this thesis has described and generalized the possible changes in other situations of rural governance in poor area after the abolishment of agricultural tax. Moreover, the efficient form of rural governance after the abolishment of agricultural tax has been discussed in order to achieve the goal of "good governance" in spacious rural area of China. This paper is divided into three parts:The first part of this paper is the foreword, in which the research question, background and significance of the study are stated.The second part of thesis is the text consisting of four chapters altogether.Chapter one is literature review about rural governance. The functions, the situations, the measures, designs and the vicissitudes of rural governance have been studied.Chapter two is the framework of the study. In this chapter, the author gives a detailed definition to the concept that is used in the text, and carries out a brief explanation to the route, concrete research approach and technological means that is adopted in the text.Chapter three takes M town as an example, describes and summarizes the concrete situations on the rural governance in China's poverty-stricken area after the agricultural tax is abolished. There are three main aspects about the rural governance inChina's poverty-stricken area: Firstly, when the villagers' committee is free from the administrative pressure on the collection of agricultural tax, the relationship between the administration at town-level and the villagers' committee comes back towards the fixed relation set by the Law on Villagers' Committee in People's Republic of China. Secondly, the utility of the villagers' participation in the village affairs and the non-universality in the relation of the interests between the village affairs and the villagers contribute to the reduction of the villagers' participation in village affairs. Thirdly, there are no successors for the village cadres because the concealment of the agricultural tax results in the reduction in the economic interests and social capital for the village cadres and their failure to fulfill their will.Chapter four is the summary and proposal on the rural governance. Abolishing the agricultural tax has caused the crisis of regime at village-level. The author of this thesis proposes the establishment of new-type of democratic rural governance, the system for the employment of village cadres and the collection of a small amount of land royalties to ensure the normal operation of organization at village-level and the achievement of good governance in poverty-stricken area after the abolishment of agricultural tax.The last part of this paper is a conclusion. At the end of this thesis, the author makes necessary additional remarks to the new situation appearing.