Author(s)

Yufeng Xie ¹, Hongxi Chen ²

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Economics, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350108, China
² International College, Ulaanbaatar Erdem University, Ulaanbaatar, 999097, Mongolia

Corresponding Author

Hongxi Chen

ABSTRACT

Local authorities actions in China revolve around 4 main areas: economic, market, social and public services, but an evaluation of China's fiscal revenues and expenditures shows that there is a massive imbalance between central and local fiscal revenues and expenditures. Although most of the national regularly occurring budget revenue is neighborhood general public budget revenue, nearby governments bear significantly extra responsibility than the central government. In the past two decades, the shortfall of central common public budget revenue and expenditure has been smaller than the shortfall of neighborhood general public budget income and expenditure, and local finances are in deficit all 12 months round. Fiscal pressure has led to a lack of incentives for the government to construct public services. Secondly, the "entrepreneurial" dilemma of local governments leads to the willingness of the authorities to focus resources on "fast-impact" construction, whilst the long transmission cycle of public service building has limited effect on monetary growth, making it difficult to solve the pressing financial needs of neighborhood governments. Finally, considering the assessment and promoting of Chinese government officials, local officers lack the incentive to "plant trees before them and let others take gain of them." Only by establishing evaluation and promotion standards for officers that are in line with the current era and improvement direction and reforming China's revenue distribution mechanism can we promote the long-term development of public services.

KEYWORDS

Government motivation, public service, "financial power - service power" contradiction

CITE THIS PAPER

Yufeng Xie, Hongxi Chen, A Review Study on Government Behavior in Public Service. Social Security and Administration Management (2023) Vol. 4: 72-79. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/socsam.2023.040310.

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