1994年,基于国家财政汲取能力的不足,中国进行了具有划时代意义的分税制改革,然而由于改革尚非彻底,造成中央和地方财力与事权不匹配,地方政府由此累积了大量的显性和隐性债务。加之随着工业化和城市化进程的不断加快,民生工程突飞猛进,特别是2008年以来,中国为应对国际金融危机而出台的大规模投资计划进一步加剧了地方政府债务的风险,地方债务规模急速膨胀已经成为影响社会稳定与发展的重要因素。地方债务风险如不能得到积极和及时的防范和化解,将会向中央财政转嫁,进而会严重威胁社会稳定和经济社会的可持续发展。
<<In 1994,because of the insufficient ability on managing state financial revenue,our country carried on the epoch-making tax distribution system reform. However,the reform is not yet complete,which led to the mismatch of financial power and administrative authority between the central and local governments. Local governments have accumulated massive debt during this process. Moreover,along with the progress of industrialization and urbanization,the People’s Livelihood Project progresses by leaps and bounds. Especially since 2008,the large-scale public investment plan which aims to deal with the international financial crisis has further intensified the debt risk of the local governments. The rapid expansion of the local debt scale has already threatened social stability and economic development. If the local debt risk cannot be controlled promptly,it will pass the burden to the central government,and then compromise social stability and sustainable development.
<<Keywords: | International Financial CrisisSocial StabilityThe Livelihood of People ProjectsThe Risk of Local Debt |