Township Governmental Status and Functions in the New Period of Industry Feeding Agriculture

The township governmental embarrassing position is the inevitable outcome of our country's administrative system that falls behind the economical and social development,and the rebuilding of township governmental functions is bound to go through three developing periods.The main task and function of a local government is a link to tie the vast masses,and the organization of a local power plays a cushioning role that the market economy expels and eliminates the individual producers in the process of growth of the specialist cooperative organizations in the countryside.At the present stage,a local power will shoulder the task to reinforce the construction of agricultural productive ability,to continue adjusting the structure between agriculture and rural economy,to further deepen the rural reform,to make efforts to steadily increase the grain,to increase farmers' income and to promote the all-round development of the rural economical society.In the period of industry feeding agriculture,township governments should be aware of their new function for public service and establish a system and mechanism to offer effective service.