Better Play the Role of the Government: Reconstruction of the Government Functions

Abstract

China’s in-depth promotion of economic system reform needs to achieve the coordination and balance among the relationships of enterprises, market and government. As seen from the progress of current overall economic system reform, reforms in enterprises and market have achieved relatively large progress but government administration system reform has lagged far behind and become the largest weakness through the formation of micro-basis and construction of market system in the previous reforms. Such lag and containment has led to the sticky situation of reform in the monopolizing industries, market reforms in land, capital and other elements, reform in revenue distribution system as well as the reforms in other key areas and important links, and some reforms are even in the state of “progress or regression”. This needs to “offset the weakness” as soon as possible and seek the breakthrough progress in the administration system reform. The core of government administration system reform is the transformation of government functions, which is to achieve the transformation of government function orientation from the economic construction to public services. Currently, government at all levels is still relatively prominent in the constructive characteristics and faces many institutional obstacles in the transformation to the service-oriented government. In the next stage, only conducting deeper institutional reform may achieve the breakthrough in the transformation of government functions.