Empirical Study Of "Municipal County" And County Economic Growth

County economy as the cornerstone of the national economy, both China's macroeconomic development of the "stabilizer", but also has important strategic significance to promoting China's new urbanization, building a new socialist countryside. "How to promote rapid and sustained economic growth in the county?" Has become a problem of public concern. In recent years, to reduce levels of government, county government gives greater powers "provincial County" to promote the reform of the county as economic growth, "prescription" access to government decision-making horizons. From the content point of view of reform, practice logic "provincial County" reform substantially expand along three levels:First, fiscal decentralization, that is, reduced level of financial management by the provincial finance direct docking county finance management; Second the economic decentralization, which gives economic management authority of county government partly municipal level; third is administrative decentralization, the provincial government in the administrative, financial and personnel aspects of the direct management of county government.Since 2002, China's Zhejiang, Shandong, Henan and other provinces began to shorten the implementation of financial management frame, decentralization of municipal financial management authority as the main content of the "Fiscal provincial County" pilot program at the beginning of the provinces selected only province inner portion has a representative at the county level units, with the gradual reform highlights the effect of this pilot program is constantly expanding. Meanwhile, the foundation is still "Fiscal provincial County" in Zhejiang Province, through pilot county economic management authority delegated part of the municipal departments, county government gives greater powers to the space, the further release of the county economic development vitality. Since then, some Chinese provinces such as Sichuan, Shaanxi, launched a "Financial Straight Tube" and "economic expansion of the right to" a combination of "Municipal County" pilot mode. "Provincial County" reform as one of the key focus of the content of the present stage of local administrative reform, as well as social concern. With the deepening of the country's pilot work to reduce administrative levels, decentralized management based "provincial County" will become the new normal local administrative system.From a policy point of view the original intention, "Municipal County" is intended to give the county government through greater financial, economic and administrative authority, to achieve the purpose to promote the county's economic growth. In short, the purpose of "expanding right" to "county." But the effects of policies, the "enlarge authority" is to achieve a "county" mean? Policy practice of advance theoretical research to provide a realistic material. For existing empirical research point of view, on this issue, "provincial County" policy is to promote the county's economic growth there are obvious differences. Based on the panel Data of Sichuan Province from 2004-2012, by employing a difference-in-difference (DID) estimation method, this article tests the effect of the reform of "Municipal County" on the economic growth at county level.Conclusions show:Whether the short, medium and longer-term effects of policies, the "Municipal County" policy for the county's economic growth shows no role. Subsequently, the article about the plight of Sichuan Province "Municipal County" reform faces do a more detailed discussion, and find out its inherent logic. Arrangements for the structure of the article:Chapter I, Introduction. First described the background of the topic and describes the significance of the study, then the relevant literature review of the sort. Meanwhile, research methods, technical routes elaborate, on the main innovation of the article and shortcomings are briefly described.Chapter II, "provincial County" of Reform. On the basis of combined research literature, through the "city county," the review, identified the "provincial County" reform can be implemented by the inherent logic, a more detailed description of the evolution of "provincial County" reform. Meanwhile, the "provincial County" definition, development status system was introduced.Chapter III, the empirical analysis of the effectiveness of the reform. First, the selection criteria counties of empirical research will be described below, and by relevant socio-economic data for the selected counties recent general statistical description. Secondly, the use of double difference models were introduced at the same time you need to select the corresponding variable according to the article, this article constructed regression model. In this paper, a two-year time node, compared the policy for two years, four years and six years after the economic effects produced, and then come to the impact of reform on the pilot counties in the short, medium and long term in three different stages.Chapter IV, "Municipal County" reform dilemma and internal logic. Combined with the actual situation in Sichuan Province on the basis of a more comprehensive analysis of the "Municipal County" reform problems inherent logic-depth analysis of these issues, identify the root causes of these problems.Chapter V, policy recommendations. In summing up the conclusions of the article puts forward the corresponding policy recommendations.