Study On The Public Participatory Budgeting Of China

Public budgeting is one of the magnificent policy instruments for government to allocate and apply public resources, to provide public goods and services. In terms of the point of view of public governance, Citizen Participatory Budgeting is not only aiming to enhance a democratic and scientific government administration, but also to promote positive cooperation between government and citizens by effectively reconciling various social interests. On the other hand, from the view of the budgeting democracy, public participatory budgeting also plays a very important role on developing citizens’democratic awareness and involvement to protect people’s rights to know, to participate, to choose and to supervise. In recent years, the research and explore on the practice of the public participatory budgeting attract a great deal of attention in China. From the central government to the local, within the system and outside the system, there is a much strong desire to pay more attention on the government budgeting and involving the distribution of government resources.Based on perspectives of the practice of public participatory budgeting according to the China’s reality, this dissertation is trying to discuss the possibility of promoting democracy on budgeting with Chinese characteristics. The main points raised in this dissertation are summarized as follows.Firstly, from the overall and structured perspectives, contemporary public participatory budgeting of China came from the transaction period of the nation including the fields of politics, economy, society and culture. In the meanwhile, the improvement of the public participatory budgeting could help to promote and develop the mechanism of the budget democracy with distinctive Chinese characteristic. Secondly, by considering the present political and economical social environment, the Public Participatory Budgeting appears a trend of multiple interactions, overall advancement and mutually motivation in the practice involved by all levels of governments, citizens, researchers, scholars and media. Furth more, public participatory budgeting also generates distinguish features of government-leading, technically feasibility and multiple target value orientation. Thirdly, in order to promote public participatory budgeting, it is necessary to build up a healthy interactive mechanism between citizens and government to balance benefits, to make decision soundly, to share responsibility, to achieve general consensus. Socialist democracy in China is still on the way of being improved. Citizens’orderly taking part in the procedure of budgeting in the current institutional framework would gradually become a significant part of socialist political system.This paper reviews and analyses the history and status quos of the public participatory budgeting. In addition, this paper elaborates the significance of how the public participatory budgeting could improve the democracy in China. And upon this basis, this paper concludes the general idea below. The key point of improving public participatory budgeting is to build up positive cooperation relationship between government and citizens to ensure people rights of expressing opinions and concerns according to the budgeting. Further more, such improvement on the budget democracy definitely could strengthen the sense of responsibility for government, which would enhance the democracy and legal constitution in China’s society as a whole.In the meantime, this paper makes some thoughts and suggestions on how to improve public participatory budgeting. First of all, realizing common supportive development by improving political and culture environment to encourage citizens take part in the political and economical affairs. Secondly, enhancing legal and technical supporting mechanism by revising the Budget Law. Last but not least, ensuring the decision-making more scientific and democratic in the process of the budgeting by strengthen the supervision function of the National People’s Congress and providing more methods for citizens to participate budgeting.