The Historical Review Of The Relation Between The Communist Party Of China And The Government Since Reform And Opening Up

Parties and party government are political phenomena at large in contemporary society. The relation between the party and the administration has come into being since the party was in power. The Communist Party is the ruling party that is in the saddle in China. The relation between the party and the administration is a major problem in the process of constructing socialist political civilization, strengthening the Party's governing capacity and improving the ruling way of the Party in China. Therefore the adjustment of relation between the Party and the government is an integral part in the reform of the political system in China. The paper mainly discusses the relation between the Party and the government since the reform and opening up according to three aspects.Facing to the relation between the Party and the government of confusion of the Party and the government and style of the Party substituting the government,"the separation of the Party and the government"was brought forth to modulate the relation between the Party and the government in the reform of the political system in the 1980s. Especially the separation of the Party and the government in function was systematically expatiated in the 13th National Party Congress. The initial practice of"separation of Party and the government"overcame the Party's traditional centralization of state power to some extent and initially altered the relation between the Party and the government of confusion of the Party and the government and style of the Party substituting the government. However, after the 13th National Party Congress the separation of the Party and the government in function encountered many difficulties and contradictions in the process and plunged into a standstill for a time."The separation of the Party and the government"faded out the reform of the political system little by little.With the establishment of the socialist market economic system and progress of democracy, the Party's central leadership collective reflected on experience and lessons of the reform of the separation of the Party and the government and redressed the original deployment of the reform of the separation of the Party and the government. He began to explore the separation of the Party and the government according to the ruling party's way of thinking and rationalized the relationship between the party and the government via strengthening the Party's governing capacity and improving the ruling way of the Party as a breakthrough.The reform of the separation of the Party and the government was transit from"the separation of the Party and the government"to regulating the relation of the Party and the government and the relation of the Party and the organs of state power. The Party leads the government through the National People's Congress. A relatively standardized relation between the Party and the government has basically been formed. However, there will still be many difficulties and problems in actualizing the standardized relation between the Party and the government to the full.The revelation can be drawn from the historically evolutional track of the relation of the Party and the government. There should be separation and link and a benign interaction in the relation between the Party and the government. It is a premise to rationalize the relation between the Party and the government according to insisting hegemony of the Party. It is a sticking point to strengthen the Party's governing capacity. That the Party and the government function within in the law will ensure that the relation between the Party and the government realizes rationalization.