InclusiveDevelopment: The Mode of Equalization of BasicPublic Cultural Service in ChineseUrban and Rural Areas

Zhihong ZENG, Xiaoying ZENG

Abstract


This paper selects the perspective of urban and rural culture as a starting point to make the research of basic public service equalization. It builds a theoretical framework to analyze inclusive development as the mode of equality of basic public cultural service in Chinese urban and rural areas. Public cultural service refers to the use of public power and resources to protect the cultural rights of citizens, meet the citizens’ basic needs of public culture service. As to perfecting public cultural services, it’s Chinese important subject for cultural mechanism reform and essential aim for cultural construction. Currently there are many questions in constructing public culture service system, for examples, the poor consciousness, imperfect system, insufficient funds investment, old cultural infrastructure and the lagged market. Therefore, we should share the light of local conditions to build a new system of public cultural services in gradually. Inclusive development as the design and effective implementation of public policies and actions that bring about socio-economic and human development, in a way that promotes the capacities and equal opportunities and rights of all people in sustainable harmony with the environment, regardless of his social condition, gender, age, physical or mental condition, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, etc.. Inclusive development is benefit to soften social contradictions and handle human livelihood, and for building a harmonious society. Through the expansion of poverty-stricken areas of infrastructure and investment in cultural resource development, people can own their equal opportunities to raise their own culture training and quality.


Keywords


Inclusive development; Equality; Public cultural service; Chinese urban and rural areas; Government

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/j.ccc.1923670020130905.2835

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