The Government Responsibility Of Basic Public Services Supply In Urban And Rural Areas

In recent years, under the influence of the wave of service-oriented government building, the Chinese government actively deepening administrative system reform, in order to promote the functional transformation optimization of government functions, and advance of administrative efficiency. Among them, the supply of basic public service as one of the most important social service function of government, it’s improvement and optimization is the focus of the work of the government. Because of China’s urban-rural dual structure which rooted in history and practical differences between rural and urban factors, our urban and rural basic public services presents a huge gap. Acquired the institutional and policy discrimination makes this gap widening and fetters the harmony, stability, prosperity and development of urban and rural society. In this regard, the government can’t shirk its responsibility. In the new historical period of building a new socialist countryside, promoting coordinated and sustainable development of urban and rural areas and achieving enriching "China dream", how the government to take responsibility and play their own role of supplying basic public service especially in rural areas is an important topic that all levels government must face. Government should perfecting the system, mechanism and management responsibilities to fundamentally narrow the huge gap of basic public services supply in different areas and promote social fairness and justice.This thesis adopts the theory and empirical analysis methods, based on the comparison and analysis of the status of the supply of basic public services in urban and rural areas of China, evaluating urban and rural basic public services comprehensively with factor analysis method. Then discusses the current gap between urban and rural basic public service supply and analyze the root cause of this gap. And then, draw lessons from foreign experience of basic public service supply and analyzes the government’s responsibility and role in the basic public service supply, put forward a series of countermeasures suggestions which combining the reality of China. The contribution of this paper lies in:Based on the basic public service supply in urban and rural areas as the breakthrough point, through factor analysis, conducted a quantitative analysis to the gap level of basic public service supply between urban and rural areas. Then based on this background, analyze the status and absence of government responsibility in urban and rural basic public service supply, in order to provide a theoretical basis and policy guidance for promoting rural basic public services.