Chinese Food Security and the Intergovernmental Transfer

Food security is one of the key reasons for government supporting agricultural development. Purpose-specified special transfer is a necessary means for motivating farmers in farming and food cultivating and guiding local government to increase agricultural capital investment. However, such problems as proliferation of funds, complex application and approval procedures and nontransparent fund allocation exist in our current agricultural special transfers. In order to solve these problems, this thesis put forward that the local agriculture-associated special transfer reform by Central Government should move forward operation with fund operation model of transforming current project categorical grants into block grants.