Local autonomy and social responsibility of the government: The two extremes of the tricky problem of fairness in China’s urbanization today
International Social Science Journal (Chinese Edition)
No.4, 2013
Local autonomy and social responsibility of the government: The two extremes of the tricky problem of fairness in China’s urbanization today
(Abstract)
Hu Daping and Zhai Junsheng
The study explores how to bring the local autonomy and the social responsibility of the government into play around two issues: Whose development? How the government guarantee development? In the present phase, local autonomy should become an important buttress for local development, and it has become a fundamental requirement for the fairness of the public policy on national level. The authors argue through a description of the history of the relation between China’s policy on urbanization and fairness in view of the experiences of some local successes. Finally, they describe a local case of the “New Rural Construction” and the role of the two axes -- local autonomy and the social responsibility of the government – in the evolution of public policy in our time.