| Since the reform and opening up,China’s economy has been developing rapidly and its national strength has been continuously enhanced.As people’s income level,the residents demand for basic public services is increasing,but the rapid growth of economic development and residents’ welfare level of ascension is not synchronized,one of the important reasons,is closely related to the residents of public service supply relative lag,and the existing supply efficiency level is not high.China’s 14 th Five-Year Plan for 2021 clearly states that "The supply of basic public services in China is relatively insufficient,and there is a serious imbalance in development between urban and rural areas and among different regions." Compared with urban areas,the supply of basic public services in rural areas lags behind seriously and the supply efficiency is lower.Therefore,in the context of the current implementation of the rural revitalization strategy,how to realize the effective supply of rural basic public services and improve the efficiency of rural basic public service supply is crucial to achieve the goal of equal access to basic public services across the country.Based on the collection and collation of existing literature,this paper constructs an indicator system of the supply of basic public services in rural areas of China’s prefecturelevel cities from the perspectives of education,medical care,social security and infrastructure.Based on the relevant data of basic public services in rural areas of China’s239 prefecture-level cities from 2010 to 2019,DEA-Malmquist model was used to measure the supply efficiency of basic public services in rural China.Secondly,the difference and evolution characteristics of TFP and its decomposition efficiency are investigated from different individuals.Finally,in order to further explore the external factors that influence efficiency of public service supply,economic development level,industrial structure,rural poverty,the level of urbanization,population density,financial autonomy and local fiscal expenditure and so on seven indicators,combined with the basic public service efficiency measure results,building panels fixed effects model,regression analysis on the influencing factors,And divide the country into three regions of east and West to carry out heterogeneity test.The research results show that at the level of prefecture-level cities,the overall efficiency of China’s rural basic public service supply is low,and the low level of technological progress is the main reason.From different regional levels,it is found that the eastern region has the highest supply efficiency,followed by the central region and the western region.At the individual level,only 9 of the 20 provincial capitals achieved effective growth of TFP(total factor productivity).In the analysis of influencing factors,the level of economic development and urbanization promoted the growth of total factor productivity in prefecture-level cities,while the industrial structure,financial autonomy and local financial expenditure hindered the improvement of total factor productivity.Heterogeneity results show that the level of economic development and urbanization has a positive impact on the total factor productivity in the eastern and central regions,while industrial structure and local fiscal expenditure negatively hinder the growth of total factor productivity in the eastern and central regions. |
