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               promoting the balanced, adequate and high-quality development of Chinese public cultural service
               in the new era.
                 Public Cultural Service Guarantee Law of the People’s Republic of China has established the
               standards of basic public cultural services with the requirements of developing, adjusting and
               implementing the standards based on the local actual circumstances. As of the start of 2019,
               more than 70 percent of the county-level people’s governments had issued the catalogues of
               basic public cultural services within their respective administrative regions, but more efforts
               are needed to fully implement the system in rural areas. The first step is to fill the vacancies in
               the catalogues of public cultural services at county level. The second step is to standardize the
               catalogue contents and put forward the service items, quantity indicators, quality standards and
               expenditure responsibilities pragmatically in line with local economic and social development.
               The third is to perfect the dynamic adjustment mechanism, integrating with the development of
               rural revitalization, culture and tourism integration, and the construction of civilization practice
               center in the new era. The fourth is to consolidate the responsibility of county level government
               in organizing and implementing the catalogues and guaranteeing the funding, and strengthen the
               promotion measures, implementation measures, inspection and supervision measures towards the
               catalogues. The Rural Revitalization Strategy sets forth the requirements for improving the public
               cultural service system in rural areas, including standards, networks, content and talents. It is not
               possible for the village to accomplish this task by itself. We must give full play to the leading,
               radiating and supporting role of the county level public libraries and cultural centers. At present,
               the construction of central-branch system in public libraries and cultural centers at county level
               is the breakthrough to improve the rural public cultural service system. With such a system, the
               public cultural service pattern of counties leading villages, facilities sharing, resources sharing,
               service linkage and urban and rural integration will be basically formed in the scope of a county.
               To promote socialization development of public cultural services is an inevitable requirement of
               high-quality development of rural public cultural services. As of the start of 2019, public cultural
               facilities in more than 10,000 towns and villages nationwide had adopted the mode of government
               purchasing management and operation services from social forces. This mode has revealed several
               realistic problems. From the perspective of undertakers, their lack of quantity, low degree of
               specialization and excessive turnover of personnel are the main challenges. From the perspective
               of government purchase policy, it mainly concerns the legitimacy of buyers and undertakers, the
               adaptability of government procurement bidding methods and procedures, the equal treatment
               towards the social forces and the nonfeasance of local governments. To promote the participation
               of social forces in rural public cultural services, we should, firstly, strengthen the cultivation
               of socialized undertakers in public cultural services, expanding the quantity and improving the
               quality. Secondly, the policy system of socialization development in public cultural services should
               be improved, and the urgent task is to resolve the conflicts and uncoordinated policies of different
               departments. Thirdly, the government should change the ideas of social participation and improve
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