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| Multiple Tasks, Mechanism Innovation and Construction of Grassroots Responsibility Communities— Taking the “In Village” System in Yongxin County, Jiangxi Province as an Example |
| Yang Hua |
| School of Sociology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China |
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Abstract With resources, rules, supervision and tasks going to the countryside, a pattern of “multiple tasks” has emerged at the grassroots level, but the resources such as human resources, financial resources and other matters at the grassroots level have not been significantly increased, resulting in the tension between the increasing tasks and the shortage of resources. In order to mobilize village officials to fulfil their work tasks, some local government tended to make the village-level organizations their subordinate branches and the village officials “professionalized”. This measure was indeed conducive to the administrative mobilization of grassroots officials, but at the same time, it has also brought about the problems of “administrative absorption and autonomy” and “officials only caring about their superiors”. In this case, the “In Village” mechanism, which requires higher officials to be stationed in villages, was created and a responsibility community composed of township deputy leaders, officials stationed in villages, and the local officials through the scheme of clear responsibility management and joint responsibilities. This responsibility community not only strengthens the mass mobilization and self-governance for villagers, and the standardization and coordination of village-level organizations, but also builds a “cooperative” village relationship, which enables the village to have a great capacity in emergency. So, without increasing governance resources, not only can the new system well deal with the multi-task pattern, but also meet the increasing needs and solve the ever emerging problems, that an effect of doing more with less was achieved. This system shows that mechanism innovation could be a magic weapon to enhance the flexibility, adaptability and responsiveness of the grassroots governing system.
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