Research On The Modernization Of Government Governance Capacity In China's Frontier Minority Area

As frontier ethnic regions play a special and important role in the economy,society,culture,people's livelihood and national security of a country,the government governance capacity of frontier ethnic regions concerns the national unity,stability and development and the implementation of various national strategies.The government governance capacity is an important link in the process of promoting the modernization of the national governance system and the governance capacity,the overall goal in the comprehensive reform deepening,and an important part in socialist modernization and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.Therefore,research on this topic has extremely great theoretical and practical significance.Conceptually,the modernization of the government governance capacity in frontier ethnic regions refers to the sum of all abilities and levels of governments to govern ethnic regions,resolve and eliminate the development gap in ethnic regions,promote economic development in ethnic regions,guarantee the sustained,rapid,stable,and all-round development of ethnic regions,combine the development characteristics of society in ethnic regions,effectively define and clarify economic regulation,market supervision,social management and public service functions,fully implement and exert administration functions,promote the optimal allocation of resources,and achieve their governance goal.From the perspective of particularity,frontier ethnic regions face a unique governance environment: coexistence of poor ecological environment and rich resources,coexistence of strengths and weaknesses in the human environment,coexistence of disadvantages in economic development and advantages in location,and coexistence of the complex inter-governmental relations and complex ethnic relations.Political resources,financial resources,human resources,and technical resources provided by the Communist Party of China and the government must accord with the special nature and development status of frontier ethnic regions.Therefore,governments of frontier ethnic regions are required to achieve the following basic goals.On the political level,the governments should strengthen their political leadership for frontier ethnic regions and strive to promote the coordinated development of national identity and ethnic identity.On the economic level,the governments should follow the idea of achieving common flourish and prosperity to promote good,rapid,long-term and sustained development of society and economy in frontier ethnic regions.On the social level,the governments should safeguard the social stability and national unity,so that frontier ethnic regions can develop in an idea and good order.According to a panoramic view on the governance history of frontier ethnic regions after the founding of New China,their governance has experienced 3 stages;control-oriented governance,economic construction-oriented governance and service-oriented governance.After a long period of exploration and accumulation,the governance system of frontier ethnic regions has been preliminarily built and their governance capacity has been greatly improved,which is reflected by: the continuous strengthening of the autonomous system of ethnic regions,gradual perfection of the social organization management system,significant enhancement of the public service capabilities,obvious improvement of government performance,gradually closeness of the national integrity,the development of national identity,and the increasingly solid base for national solidarity and social stability.However,as national conditions,world conditions and people's conditions have changed,and higher requirements have been proposed for building Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era,frontier ethnic regions have been presented with an increasing number of challenges in their development and governance.The challenges include: the contradiction between multi-ethnic coexistence and the weak dynamic adjustment of the political structure,contradiction between the backwardness of the regional economic development and poor development of market entities,contradiction between the uniqueness of ethnic culture and the lack of financial resources for government public service,contradiction between the diverse social development and governments weak abilities in resource integration,contradiction between in the difference in resource endowment and the relatively low quality of public service.In response to these challenges,the most important prerequisite for achieving the modernization of the government governance capacity in frontier ethnic regions is to uphold the leadership of CPC,give full play to China's unique political superiority and advanced socialist system with Chinese characteristics.On this basis,further work should be done to cultivate a new governance culture,make full use of traditional national culture and shape the notion of public governance,harmonize the government-market,government-society and central-local government relations and achieve the transformation of government functions,improve the law consciousness of governments and people in frontier ethnic regions,create a sound legal environment for ethnic regions,reconcile conflicts between the national statute law and ethnic folk laws and strengthen the socialist legal construction,improve the autonomous system of ethnic regions,perfect autonomy right of ethnic minorities,consolidate and develop relations between different ethnic groups,and promote the advancement of the socialist democratic system and capability,reconstruct the institutional framework of frontier ethnic regions,improve the governance mechanism for frontier ethnic regions,update governance tools in frontier ethnic regions and perfect the system and institutional arrangements,highly value the construction of information management capabilities,increase investment in science and technology,strengthen the construction of e-governance and enhance the level of informatization in government governance.