The Selection And Evaluation Of The Financial Supporting Agriculture Policy

In the process of economic development, whether the government adopts the financial supporting agriculture policy depends on its will and capacity in agricultural macro control, and the supporting effects reflect the operational efficiency of the government's finance in agricultural investment. These are two key factors that affect the formulation and implementation of the financial supporting agriculture policy. It is of great realistic significance to put forward some theoretical opinions and practical countermeasures on the financial supporting agriculture policy based on the theoretical and practical analyses. These are also the important study contents of this thesis.Starting from the following two clues: the government's motive and preference in selecting the financial supporting agriculture policy and the implementation effects of the financial supporting agriculture policy, this thesis probes in the selection and evaluation of the financial supporting agriculture policy. The thesis comprises three parts. The first part is the introduction which briefly introduces the background of selecting the study subject, the angles, methods and conceptions of the study, the arrangement of the study contents and the possible innovation points of the study results. The second part is the theoretical part about the financial supporting agriculture policy which establishes the theoretical analysis framework for the government to select the financial supporting agriculture policy. Firstly, this part argues the realistic bases for China to select the financial supporting agriculture policy at the current stage separately from three different angels of background, objective demand and basis of drawing up the policy. From the angle of theoretical analysis, this part sets forth the theoretical bases relating to the selection of the financial supporting agriculture policy which mainly include the State Theory, the Public Policy Theory, the Economy Increasing Theory and the Fiscal Expenditure Theory. From the angle of positive analysis, this part puts forward the way and framework of selecting the financial supporting agriculture policy which is worthy of use for reference by way of analyzing and comparing the practical experiences of some developed countries such as the United States, Japan and the European Union on the financial supporting agriculture policy. From the angles of politics, economics and sociology, this part discusses the related factors that affect the formation of China's financial supporting agriculture policy and the detailed forming process of the policy, explains the motives and behaviors of the decision-makers of the financial supporting agriculture policy in combination with the characteristics of China's current political-economic system, and discusses the decision-making system for China's government to select and draw up the financial supporting agriculture policy. It is pointed out that different decision-making bodies affect the public selection process of decision-making to different extents in the process of drawing up the financial supporting agriculture policy. Among them, the central government holds a core position in the public selection and plays a key role in decision-making; economic functional departments, local governments and non-government interest groups affect the selection of the policy to a certain extent. However, the peasants are in a disadvantageous position in the public selection of the policy because of their lack of organization supporters. In the future, the government should actively promote the organizational building of the peasants and broaden the channels and ways for the peasants to express their wishes in the selection process ofpublic policies. At last, this part explores and puts forward the objective system and the key supporting fields of the financial supporting agriculture policy. The third part is the evaluation part about the financial supporting agriculture policy. On the basis of the theoretical part and taking Hebei Province as an example, the positive analysis is further made about the financial supporting agriculture policy from the angle of practice. Taking the financial supporting agriculture funds as specific object, this part evaluates the concrete implementation results of the financial supporting agriculture policy of Hebei Province and verifies the theoretical analysis conclusions in the second part. On the basis of the quantitative analysis of the relations between Hebei provincial financial expenditures in supporting agriculture and the agricultural GDP, the peasants' incomes, the grain production and the competitive capacity of agricultural products, it expounds the economics logical relation between the financial supporting agriculture policy and the agricultural and rural economic development. By way of evaluating the status of Hebei provincial rural public products provided by the finance and analyzing its basic characteristics, it finds out the existing problems of the financial funds input in this aspect and the internal reasons, and further indicates the effect of the financial supporting agriculture policy on the increase of rural economy. This part also makes an overall evaluation about the usage of the financial supporting agriculture funds according to the related data on the performance of Hebei provincial financial supporting agriculture funds, summarizes the basic operational characteristics of Hebei provincial financial supporting agriculture funds, and analyzes the related influencing factors. The study results indicate that Hebei provincial financial input funds hold a larger proportion in the agricultural financial expenditures, but the structure is not rational. The input for the administrative expenses is too much, and the input for the agricultural science, technology and extension, the agricultural basic education and the agricultural infrastructure is severely insufficient. The financial agricultural subsidies' take a smaller proportion in Hebei provincial financial agricultural expenditures, and the usage of these funds is not rational completely. The main problems include that the government's subsidies for agriculture lack the standardized arrangement, the management system of subsidies is incomplete, the priority in subsidies is indefinite, the structure needs further improvement, and it is difficult to raise the subsidy efficiency. Therefore, the usage efficiency of Hebei provincial financial supporting agriculture funds should be further enhanced in the future. In the end, by way of special topic studies in the financial supporting policies in the key agricultural fields such as direct grain subsidies, integrated agricultural development, poverty alleviation and conversion of cropland to forest, this part evaluates the implementation effects of the above-mentioned financial supporting agriculture policies based on a great deal of investigation data and puts forward the countermeasures .and proposals for the perfection of the government's policies for the input of various financial supporting agriculture funds in order to enhance the financial supporting efficiency for agriculture.