A Design Of Transfer Payment System For The Development Priority Zones

At the Fourth Session of the Tenth National People's Congress vote on《the People's Republic of China national economic and social development of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan》which made clear"to promote the formation of the development priority zones."Namely,According to resources and environment carrying capacity,the existing development density and development potential,considering the future of our country coordinating the distribution of population,economic layout,land use and urbanization patterns,land space will be divided into four types of development priority zones,That is optimized,prioritized,limited development and banned exploitation zones.This is an important strategic planning,relates to whether our country will keep sustainable development of environmental resources,but also a very complicated zoning process,all aspects of policies are necessary to guide and support.The limited development and banned exploitation of four types of development priority zones are the most difficult zones to be divided.Because both of them should not belong to the large-scale industrialization and urbanization zones,or even belong to the prohibited zone.Thus,they can not provide adequate public services through its economic development.Therefore,in order to promote the construction of the development priority zones smoothly,nationwide equalization of public services is a prerequisite. Through the analysis of our existing levels of public services,we found it is still very low.The gap of public services among regions is very large.In order to solve this problem,to balance regional finance level is the key.From the perspective of welfare economics,transfer payment system reform is the most effective way to balance the regional finance.So based on the analysis of the existing system of transfer payments and combined with the connotation of the development priority zones,this paper locates the transfer payment target at two levels:one is to promote intergovernmental financial equalization;another is to ensure good ecological environment provided adequately. And based on the two goals,re-designed the transfer payment system of our country.