Service-oriented Government In China Construction

The construction of Chinese service-oriented government which started in the conscious adaptation to the new social environment and the changed benefits need of a small number of local governments in the eve of China's accession to WTO. The construction of Chinese service-oriented government cannot copy the new public service theories of the West Country and adopted a "trial and error" strategy generally because of the particularity of the social and political environment in our country. There are fewer new reform measures, softer slogans of service-oriented government and shallower work after some basic operational measures were taken in the period of pre-construction. Now, the construction of Chinese service-oriented government has been in mire and cannot be advanced further.From the perspective of social governance structure, this article at first clarifies the concept of service-oriented government in the Chinese context and describes the particular environment of the construction of Chinese service-oriented government. Then this article analyzes the background, process and current plight of the construction of service-oriented government which is based on combing the changes of social governance structure and reveals that the changes of social governance structure poses profound impact on the construction of service-oriented government. In this paper the forming conditions of equalization social governance structure and the tendencies of service-oriented government are also explored by the law of the changes of social governance structure.The first chapter tries to give a brief introduction of the studying background and the studying significance, describe the relevant literature summaries, explain the relative theories, the studying method and the studying perspective, and outline the basic logic and structure of the paper.The second chapter explains the history of mankind paradigm of government from the ruling paradigm to the administration paradigm and then to the service paradigm and clarify the necessity of service paradigm of government firstly; then illuminates the concept of Chinese service paradigm of government:the service-oriented government; analyzes the special environment of the construction of service-oriented government in China finally.The third chapter aims to reveal that the highly-centralized social governance structure is a powerful force against the change of governmental mode. This chapter at fist combs the process of forming highly-centralized social governance structure. Then the efforts of the organizational adjustment by the central government under the constraint condition of the social governance structure are studied. It further points out that these measures further strengthen the unidirectional command-obedience relations between higher level governments and lower level governments and solidify the original regulation-oriented governmental mode.The forth chapter aims to reveal the influence on the construction of Chinese service-oriented government by the benefits tension of local government induced by the longitudinal differentiation of original social governance structure. This chapter at fist analyzes the process of longitudinal differentiation of original social governance structure. Then the course of the construction of Chinese service-oriented government is outlined. This chapter also explains the intrinsic benefits tension consisting in the construction of service-oriented government.The fifth chapter aims to reveal the primary cause of the construction of service-oriented government in a tight place is hierarchy-based social governance structure induced by the inadequate horizontal differentiation of original social governance structure. This chapter at fist analyzes the process of forming hierarchy-based social governance structure. Then the accumulation of bottleneck factor constraining the construction of service-oriented government in the internal system of government is analyzed. This chapter also explores the practical dilemma of the construction of service-oriented government comprehensively.The sixth chapter analyzes the necessity and point of propelling the transition of social governance structure by the law of the changes of social governance structure. This chapter at fist points out the way of forming equalization social governance structure:on the one hand, the Communist Party of China should balance the relations among different interests through the improvement of social integration function; on the other hand, it is imperative to come up with new ideas for improving the socialist market and cultivating the civil society in new situation. Then it explains the tendencies of service-oriented government and reveals the construction of service-oriented government must aim at reinventing governmental role as service provider from three aspects such as idea, system and operation.All in all, the whole study intends to illustrate two important conclusions of this article:on the one hand, there is a complementary relationship between the change of social governance structure and the transition of governmental mode and the key to surmount many difficulties of the construction of Chinese service-oriented government is to form a equalization social governance structure; on the other hand, the primary prerequisite of the equalization social governance structure is the full use of social integration function of the Communist Party of China and the complete change of municipal government functions.