基本公共服务均等化是指政府要为社会成员提供基本的、与经济社会发展水平相适应的、能够体现公平正义原则的大致均等的公共产品和服务,是人们生存和发展最基本的条件的均等。胡锦涛在党的十七大报告中明确指出,要把“注重实现基本公共服务均等化”作为统筹城乡发展、促进区域协调发展的重要手段。党的十七届三中全会将“城乡基本公共服务均等化明显推进”作为2020年全面建设小康社会的基 Equalization of basic public services means that the government should provide the members of society with basic and generally equal public goods and services that are compatible with the level of economic and social development and can reflect the principle of fairness and justice and are the most basic conditions for the survival and development of people . In his report to the 17th National Congress of the CPC, Hu pointed out clearly that “equal emphasis on the realization of basic public services” should be taken as an important means of coordinating the urban and rural development and promoting the coordinated development of the region. The Third Plenary Session of the Party’s Seventeenth Central Committee Proposals to Promote Equalization of Basic Public Services in Urban and Rural Areas as Basis for Building an All-round Well-off Society in 2020