Study On The Functional Transition Of Shanxi Provincial Government Since Reform And Opening

Based on the new historic period of profound social transformation, the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee proposed a series of reform and development strategy, including building a harmonious society, creating service-oriented government and reforming super-ministry system, which badly require government functions at all levels to change ideas and to improve efficiency and quality of public service to meet the new features occurred in national and social development. This environment largely urges and guides the government functions transformation of Shanxi Province. However, the long history and culture, unique geography, and abundant energy resources of Shanxi Province ask for selectively applying the development theories and successful models of brother provinces, central government and western developed countries. Therefore, actual situations should be considered in the government functions transformation of Shanxi Province to find transition ways and to establish targeted and feasible reform on the basis of carefully researches and reasonable references. This article interprets the theories of government functions transformation appeared in the Shanxi provincial government work report, deeply analyzes the target transformation model, and its background and significance of practice through Chinese and foreign related literatures, and consequently figures out the common meanings in those literatures. After integrating current situations and problems of Shanxi Province, and investigating the reasons, perfection measures about the government functions transformation of Shanxi province are presented in this article. Namely:relive restriction, change the ideas and concepts, make up deficiency, improve financial revenue and expenditure structure, break restriction, balance the interest of different group, remove block and deepen structure reform. Moreover, transformation of government functions is not just streamlining and reduction of redundancy so simple, the government "downsizing" and "fitness" with the full transformation of government functions in Shanxi Province is a reasonable approach.