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public cultural services. Public expenditure only accounts for basic contents and service programs.
The excessive services will be handled over to markets. Besides, since the Views announces “the
main body of propelling and progressing the course of standardization of public cultural service lies
in the county government”, county government should guarantee financial support continuously.
Additionally, “to support the disadvantaged, and to reward the well-performed”, an important
function of fiscal transfer payment, is proposed as an innovated initiative to guarantee government
financial support. In this respect, the Views pinpoints that two main problems should be solved.
For one, more financial grants should be allocated to old revolutionary base areas, areas with
concentrations of ethnic minorities, border areas, and areas with relatively high incidences of poverty.
For another, more rewards should be given to well-performed areas. The second one is a significant
political change, which reflects the function of motivation-guided direction under a gradually-perfect
working framework.
Apart from that, there are also many breakthroughs and innovations concerning the construction
of personnel needed at the grass-root level. As to the staffing at public cultural institutions, the
Views pinpoints that “to control the total amount, to liquidize remnant personnel, to optimize
structure, and to adopt adjustable quantity” as a framework designed to form an adjustable
personnel management mechanism. Since the free admission of public cultural institutions,
workload is rising; staffing is thereafter in the shortage. It is clearly stated that reasonable number
of staff is an important principle to construct better human resources in the public cultural
institutions. Therefore, the Views points out that the general development direction and basic
route in building grass-root personnel are as follows: to offer more vacant positions, to subsidize
staff using public expenditure, more importantly, to construct better personnel structure through
government purchasing public cultural service at grass-root level.
A significant breakthrough as proposed in the Views is that the national education system and
higher education institutions should explore and include appropriate programs for the purpose of
cultivating and training experts and talents. At present, the fact is that there are very few majors or
professional courses on the subject of public culture in tertiary education, particularly, subjects like
Library Science and museoligy are far less from a full and mature disciplinary system. In the long
run, the specialized research groups, research platform, theoretical system, origin and development,
professional mission and responsibility are still largely required in the academic institutions.
Otherwise, the depth and breadth of the futuristic development of public cultural services will
undoubtedly be impaired. Therefore, in order to integrate the cultivation of expert talents on public
cultural services into national education system, the key task is to establish a mature cultivation
mechanism, disciplinary system, course delivery, professional research, qualified teachers and so
on in higher education. Generally, this is a significant project to further the cause of public cultural
services in China.
In order to establish a perfect government guarantee for public cultural services, the most
important task is to speed up the legislation of public cultural services. At the 4th Plenary Session