Purchase Of Services

Purchase of services is a Hesperian reform about social welfare system. It had more than 40 years'practice from 1860 to now and has had the profound influence to the social service domain. Purchase of services is the new thing in our country, but this kind of new pattern of providing the public services has already became a new approach of the current Chinese public service reform. This article takes the Shanghai practice of government purchase service of caring for the aged as an example. Through reviewing the developmental process of Hesperian government purchase services, the article elaborates the connotation and theory basis of the purchase of services and summarizes the significance and hindrance during the implementing purchase of services in China and positively seeks the possible measures and ways of developing the purchase of services.This article is divided three parts.The first part is a case of purchase of services. It simply introduces the case of Shanghai practice of government purchase service of caring for the aged and makes the practice summary from the case.The second part is the source, connotation and theory basis of purchase of services. Purchase of services is a Hesperian reform about social welfare system. Through reviewing its history, we can thoroughly understand the starting background, the development and the mature process of purchase of services.This part also makes a more comprehensive definition of purchase of services through summing-up and elaborats its connotation, the contract form and the government function. At the same time, it elaborates the the theory basis.The third part is the implementary situation of purchase of services in China and also is the key point of this article. It in detail elaborates the significance and hindrance during the implementing purchase of services in China and positively seeks the possible countermeasures of developing the purchase of services.The article main goal is to seek implementary domain and measures and ways of purchase of services.But the analysis of this article still isn't integrity, and the case analysis frame and conclusion has many insufficiencies because of the author's low academic level, which can only be solved in the later study.