What specific preferential policies does the state have for rural buses?

Policies vary from place to place. Take Sichuan as an example:

According to the Notice on Accelerating the Development of Rural Road Passenger Transport

Three. Policies and measures

(1) Increase policy support.

1. In order to promote the development of rural passenger transport, in line with the principle of supporting the development of rural passenger transport and acting according to one's ability, the starting and ending points of lines within or adjacent to counties (cities, districts) belong to counties (cities) to townships (towns), counties (cities, districts) to administrative villages, and townships (towns) to townships (towns).

The Provincial Communications Department should increase the proportion of preferential payment, and the specific preferential policies shall be determined by the Provincial Communications Department in conjunction with relevant departments according to the needs of rural passenger transport development.

2. Local people's governments at all levels and relevant departments at the provincial level should create a good policy environment for the development of rural passenger transport in accordance with their duties. Local people's governments at all levels should formulate preferential support policies for rural passenger transport operations according to local conditions, cancel unreasonable charges, and prohibit all kinds of apportionment;

When transferring a vehicle to a transport enterprise, a rural individual passenger transport operator is exempt from other related expenses arising from the vehicle transfer, except for paying the motor vehicle number plate, temporary number plate, driving license and registration certificate. Land and resources departments should fully consider the public welfare nature of rural transportation infrastructure in the construction land of rural roads and passenger stations, and give policy support in the land use.

The price department should take the lead in formulating a scientific and reasonable rural passenger transport rate policy, determine the rural passenger transport rate by means of government guidance price or government pricing, and handle the reasonable price relationship between rural passenger transport rate and other passenger transport rates under the principle of effectively reducing fares and making various preferential policies really benefit farmers.

Extended data

Government-led and democratic decision-making will promote the sound and rapid development of rural roads in our province in 2007.

Government-led democratic decision-making;

First, the main body responsible for the management and maintenance of rural roads has been clarified. In 2006, the provincial government issued the Implementation Opinions of the General Office of Sichuan Provincial People's Government on the Reform of Rural Highway Management and Maintenance System. According to the spirit of the document, our bureau actively promoted the reform of rural highway maintenance management system and carried out pilot reforms in Chengdu and Mianyang.

Closely following the spirit of reform, last year, our office issued the "Implementation Opinions on Strengthening Highway Maintenance Management in Sichuan Province during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan", requiring the province's highways to be managed at different levels, with cities (prefectures) responsible for the maintenance and management of national and provincial trunk highways and counties (cities, districts) responsible for the maintenance and management of rural highways.

The second is to implement rural highway maintenance funding channels. Our office issued the Notice on Implementing the Reform of Rural Highway Management and Maintenance System, which fully used the increase of automobile maintenance fees after 2005 for large and medium-sized rural highway repair projects, saving 220 million yuan in 2007.

Motorcycle maintenance fees are collected by the province to the county, and are earmarked for rural road maintenance and management. In 2007, the province collected a total of 230 million yuan of motorcycle maintenance fees, an increase of more than 50 million yuan over the previous year. The daily maintenance of village roads adopts the methods of "one thing, one discussion" and "village rules and regulations" to raise funds.

Third, vigorously develop rural passenger transport. At the beginning of 2007, our office issued the Notice on Conscientiously Implementing the Opinions of the Provincial Government on Accelerating the Development of Rural Road Passenger Transport in Sichuan, which greatly reduced the rural passenger transport charges and reduced the number of rural passenger vehicles from county to township and county to village by 70%.

For rural passenger vehicles from township to township, township to village and village to village, the road maintenance fee and passenger surcharge are reduced by 90%, which greatly reduces the operating cost. In the absence of national construction funds, our bureau arranged funds to build the 150 rural passenger station, which promoted the development of rural passenger transport and facilitated farmers' travel.

References:

Sichuan Provincial People's Government-Notice on Accelerating the Development of Rural Road Passenger Transport

References:

Sichuan Provincial People's Government-government-led, democratic decision-making, promoting rural public welfare undertakings in our province in 2007