Government Functions, The State Power And Social Development

It is a hot topic as well as an issue difficult to deal with about how to analyze and define the nature and characteristics of Chinese society since the adoption of open-and-reform policy.This paper attempts to take the viewpoints of statesman to explore and describe the special relationship between China state and its society through a study and reflection on trade associations. Having the historical development process of the trade associations as the basic thread, this paper has employed the theory of Marxism politics to make a dialectic, systematic and dynamic analysis on the relationship between the transformation of governmental functions, the diversion of state power and social organizations in the process of the occurrence and development of trade associations on the basis of summarizing and combing the evidences and cases provided by sociology and analyzing the relevant historical literature.By analyzing the above relationship, this paper has proved the existence of the internal logical relationship of supplement and coexistence, i.e. on the one hand, governments take advantage of the eco-soc organizations of trade associations to realize their multiple objectives of activating state-owned enterprises, transforming governmental functions and regulating the society, and on the other side, the trade associations have appeared and developed progressively from this process.This logical relationship can be seen as follows: the type of trade associations promoted by governments has occurred and developed during the process of the separation of state and enterprises and the reform of state-owned enterprises.The behavioral logic of those trade associations of this kind can be evidenced by studying the relationship between the trade associations and the state-controlled corporations. The unique behavioral logic has made those trade associations promoted by governments become an organizational form of trade monopoly.The reform of trade monopoly has called for a further transformation of governmental functions. And correspondingly, the transformation of governmental functions has created good conditions for a further reform...