A Study On China Inter-local Government Cooperation Based On The Analysis Of Administrative Power

Inter-local government cooperation plays a more important role in China regional economic development and the governance of cross-boundery problems, and academe has made many policy recommendations on how to strengthen and deepen inter-local government cooperation.However, the necessary and deep understanding of inter-local government cooperation itself is absent at present.The reason why understanding of inter-local government cooperation itself is so important is that only we understand inter-local government cooperation itself can we make policy recommendations on how to deepen it.From the perspective of administrative power,the research proves that China local governments directly and indirectly contral a large quantities of resources with administrative power and its being exercised.It is local-governments'direct and indirect contral of resources that make local government allocate resources according its preference,and this make local government necesserily internalize negative effects coming with inter-local government competition by cooperation, that is to say, inter-local government cooperation can transform the allocation of resources which is districtized, fragmentized and hight-cost into the allocation of resources which is regionalized, integrated and low-cost, in a word, inter-local government cooperation can optimize the allocation of resources whin a certain aera scope and in a certain extent.However, inter-local government cooperation does not mean that inter-local governments directly allocate resourse.They opitmize the cross-boundery allocation of resources by the coordination of administrative power of their own accord which includes equal restriction in administrative power, joining administrative power cross-boundery, delivering administrative power to a reginoal organization or another local government, and the coordination and re-allocation of administrative power of their own accord build a power foundation for inter-local government cooperation.The research proves that the extent of inter-local government cooperation is influenced by that of the coordination of administrative power among local governments, so we can deepen the extent of inter-local government cooperation by the coordination of administrative power.What's more, the more deep the extent of inter-local government cooperation the less independence and freedom of local gvoernment exercising decision-making power, executive power and the power of supervision related to cooperation matters, at the same time, the more deep the extent of inter-local government cooperation the more mutual constants among local governments in the power related to cooperation matters and even forming regional jurisdiction relatively independent from local governments.The research proves that constructing an universal mode and mechanism of inter-local government cooperation almost impossible due to the big different level of inter-local government cooperation in different regions of China.There is a cooperation spectrum whose two ends are perfect competition and the adjustment of administrative division, and which including exchanges and visits, cooperation forum, administrative agreement, councils of government, special-purpose district and joined agency,multi-purpose district.The independence and freedom of the power exercision in each cooperation mode is lower in order.Local governments in diferent region could pick some forms from the "cooperation form set" to distinctively fit them together according to their needs and the nature of the problems dealt with. So the research advice that deepening inter-local government cooperation should follow the principle of "marginal coordination" about the existing cooperation mode and mechanism,and follow the basic ideas of distinctively fiting some cooperation forms together.The article includes five chapers totally,and the first chaper has explained the background, issues and significance of the research.The related literature is stuied, and the key concepts are defined.lt also introduces research approaches, framework and innvative ideas.The second chapter has studied local government and administrative power,and find that as the core resourse of local government administrative power is a contral power of government on resources.The chapter point that different level governments mean different contral power on resourse in different period,and this has an important influence on inter-local government cooperation. The third chapter points that inter-local government cooperation playes an role of optimizing cross-boundery allocation of resources.The externalities resulting from inter-local government competition can be internalized by cooperation.Inte-local government competition can improve the internal institution environment of local district, but it also resulst in nagetive effects involving resources being controled in districts and the cross-boundary allocation of resources being obstructed and so on..These nagetive effects led to the distortion of the allocation of resources and the difficulty of the solution of cross-boundary public problems.On the contrary,inter-local government cooperation can make parties involved in cooperation consider mutual cost-benefit, and impose certain restrictions on the behavior of each other to make decision-making and internal implementation accord with each other.By this way, inter-local government cooperation can internalized nagetive effects resulting from inter-local government competition,then the allocation of resources on great region can be improved. The chapter also point that inter-local government cooperation of different levels and area has the different level and degree influence on the cross-boundary allocation of resources and the solution of public problems,while the inter-local government cooperation in different period has different influence on the allocation of resources.The fourth chapter proves that inter-local government cooperation opitmize the cross-boundery allocation of resources by the coordination of administrative power of their own accord, and this build a power foundation for inter-local government cooperation.This chapter specificly analyzes equal and restriction in administrative power, joining administrative power cross-boundery, delivering administrative power to a reginoal organization or another local government, and analysed three categrories power including the power of free flow cross-boundary of economic factors and goods, the power of the planning and restructing of industry development,the power of provding cross-boundary public service and goods. In addition, a cooperation spectrum was constructed, and points that deepening inter-local government cooperation usually means to lower the degree of independence and freedom of local gvoernment exercising decision-making and executive power.Besides, the chapter advice that deepening inter-local government cooperation should follow the principle of "marginal coordination ",and follow the basic ideas of distinctively fiting some cooperation forms together.The fifth chapter is a case study of the Yangtze River Delta.The typical features of economic development of the Yangtze River Delta is government-led, that is to say, local governments in the area directly and indirectly control a large of quantity of resources,and this makes local governments in the area allocalting resources according to their preference to be relatively distinct. The negative effects such as repeating construction resulting from inter-local government competition occur frequently. While the research has indicates that the optimization of the industry structure, the rationalization of industry division and the improvement of the regional economic integration in the area accord with the deepenness of inte-local goernment cooperation in the area.Besides, the mutual coordination of administrative power among local governments in the area brings directly positive effects on the allocation of resources.In order to deepen inter-local government cooperation in the Yangtze River Delta, the article bring forward that the area should integrate the existing cooperation organizations and mechanism, establish the Yangtze River Delta Councils of Government, heighten the degree of the delivery of decision-making power and executive power, establish regional supervising agency and continue to restrain the excessive function of government by equal restriction in administrative power, joining administrative power cross-boundery and so on, to make market play a greater role in the allocation of resources.The sixth chaper is the conclusion of the article.