Reform of Education Finance and Allocation of Personnel Power in Rural Western China

Abstract

Based on a random survey for 50 school districts in 20 counties of western China,this pa- per empirically measures and discusses the allocation of personnel power in rural education system. By examining the characteristics of personnel administration system,we discover that the impacts of education finance reform on the reallocation of personnel power.The personnel power in the educa- tion system has been centralized to county education bureau and party organization bureau in most of sample school districts,while the township government gradually loses the control during the educa- tion finance reform.Only in a small number of districts,the decentralized system for personnel ad- ministration can be established.