On The Improvement Of Governmental Executive Ability:Challenges,Opportunities And Methods

Governmental executive ability refers to the ability and efficiency to carry out government’s policies, lines and daily administrative services smoothly and realize its economic and social development goals with a full understanding of execution targets and a proper use of government resources such as humans, finance, material and authority. Governmental executive ability, as the decisive factor of comprehensive national strength and competitiveness, has become our country’s major content and objective of government reform, which aims to improve governmental efficiency by strengthening government execution. At present, government execution is faced with problems like irrational decision-making, incompetence and unwillingness of operational staff, inadequate resources and execution culture that needs purifying. In the new era, challenges and opportunities coexist. On the one hand, quite a few challenges are presented to the improvement of government executive ability by the development of informatization, public participation and marketization. such as the development of new media weakening the predominant discourse right that government possesses, changes in the traditional administrative hierarchy system, pursuit of administrative efficiency and multiple interest appeal. On the other hand, situation changes are presenting God-given opportunities to settle some issues like the application of decision-making techniques in government administration and more involvement of social organizations and citizens offering new solutions and approaches to the study of government’s executive ability.Therefore, approaches listed below can be adopted to improve government execution. To begin with, the government should strive to promote the use of decision-making techniques and improve the quality of policies to be formulated. For instance, big data analysis techniques used in the process of decision-making can provide policymakers a clearer picture of interests distribution, reveal in real time how a policy is implemented and thus allow policymakers to make some appropriate policy revision and supplementations. Then, transformation of government functions should be accelerated and sound execution systems and mechanisms must be built to properly deal with relations between the government and the market as well as these between the government and society. Government agencies need to introduce competition mechanisms and establish sound information communication and supervision mechanisms. The government needs to respond to the need of marketization, strengthen the competence and quality of its operational staff, renew their knowledge and enhance their ability and innovate execution techniques and approaches. It is necessary to cultivate the culture of collaborative governance and shape positive execution ideas, that is, to form consensus with others, diversify executive bodies and consult other executive bodies when it comes to solve the problems in the process of execution.Besides, techniques and approaches need to be innovated to optimize execution efficiency and improve its environment,of which system is fundamental, personnel and execution culture are the the most immediate and longer-lasting factors respectively for better government execution.