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modern public cultural service system: Based on investigations of county public libraries

economy.

2.2.2 Comparative analysis with county level museums indicates that fiscal subsidy is not the most
important impact factor as well
Comparative analysis with county level museums indicates that fiscal subsidy is not the most
important impact factor as well.
In order to examine factors affecting circulation of county level libraries, the authors carried
out analysis of factors affecting number of visitors based on the 2001-2015 data about county
level museums nationwide from the China Yearbook of Cultural and Cultural Heritage Statistics.
Analysis results show that growth of fiscal subsidy has not brought about growth in the number of
visitors to county level museums. But local economic growth, number of employees and number
of exhibitions have positive impact on the growth of museum visitors. The following is the co-
integration formula:
logcgrc=0.59*logclzl+1.77*logcyry-1.26*logczbt+2.22*logrjgdp 〇a ①
The positive elasticity coefficients of economic growth (logrjgdp) and number of employees
(logcyry) to number of visitors to county level museums were 2.22 and 1.77 respectively, with
more significant positive impact than other indicators. That of permanent exhibitions (logclzl) was
0.59, with much less significant impact. That of fiscal subsidy (logczbt) was -1.26. In the long term,
growth of fiscal subsidy is not able to increase the number of visitors to county level museums.

3 Basic conclusion and reason analysis

3.1 Basic conclusion

3.1.1 The mode of “fiscal supply – business development” that had long been effective as a major
management mode of the cultural sector has suffered “performance bottleneck”
Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the country’s public library sector has
exercised the management mode of increasing investment (fiscal increment) to drive business
development of libraries under the leadership of the government. From 1997 to 2015, state fiscal
investment in county level libraries added up to 34.065 billion RMB yuan, with an average annual
growth rate of 17.41%. As a result, the total collection volume of county level libraries increased
from 133.86 million copies in 1997 to 387.24 million copies in 2015, with an average annual
growth rate of 6.08%. The number of library events, including educational, training and lecture
events, increased from 17,701 in 1997 to 73,459 in 2015, with an average annual growth rate of
8.23%. The actual usable area of county level libraries increased from 2.517 million square meters
in 1997 to 4.3707 million square meters in 2015, with an average annual growth rate of 3.11%.
Under the institutional structure of “sector – unit” (P.L. LI, 2013), fiscal investment grew with an
① GDP per capita (logrjgdp) is adopted to meet co-integration requirement for multiple linear regression.