Research On Grassroots Government Purchasing Social Services

The Third Plenary Session of the 19 th CPC Central Committee clearly proposed to further expand the government’s purchase of services,introduce a competition mechanism,and promote the diversification of public service providers and modes.Promoting government purchase of services is of great significance for transforming government functions,improving public services,innovating social governance and accelerating the establishment of a modern financial system.Compared with western developed countries,China’s government’s policy of purchasing social services started late,but it has been gradually carried out,formed a top-down exploration and practice,and achieved the results of purchase theory and practice with Chinese characteristics.However,it needs to be clearly recognized that in China,there are still great deficiencies in all aspects in the purchase of social services by grass-roots governments compared with provincial capital cities and developed eastern coastal cities.Therefore,the research on the purchase of social services by grass-roots governments has important practical significance.Through the methods of literature reading,case analysis and questionnaire,this paper puts the research perspective on the most grass-roots township government.By expounding the relevant concepts and theoretical basis of grass-roots government’s purchase of social services,and then taking the overall current situation and specific cases of F town’s purchase of social services as the starting point,it is described and analyzed,so as to find the problems such as lack of scientific decision-making,slow function transfer,insufficient overall coordination ability,unable to guarantee service quality and high risk of power rent-seeking,This paper analyzes the corresponding causes of these problems,and on this basis,discusses the improvement measures,and puts forward specific measures to optimize the mechanism and process,such as introducing professionals,improving system construction,accurately identifying the needs of the masses,promoting benign competition and refining process supervision,hoping to provide reference and ideas for improving villages and towns with a similar degree of economic and social development.This paper is divided into seven parts.The first part mainly introduces the background and significance of the topic,expounds the research status at home and abroad,establishes the research framework of the whole paper,points out the research methods,innovations and shortcomings.The second part firstly introduces the concepts related to the purchase of social services by grassroots government,and defines the definition and scope involved in this study.Secondly,the theoretical basis of the topic is introduced to pave the way for the research of the whole paper.The third part is the specific case description of F town government’s purchase of social services,which introduces the overall status quo of F town government’s purchase of social services and three specific cases.The fourth part points out the problems with purchasing social services in F town.The fifth part analyzes the causes of the problems from five aspects.The sixth part puts forward countermeasures and suggestions for improving the purchase of social services by grassroots governments;The seventh part is the summary and prospect of the whole paper.