The Governance Model Of Pudong From The Perspective Of Development Zones With Chinese Characteristics

Since the initiation of its policy for reform and opening-up, China has become increasingly international and has experienced dramatic changes for its political, economic and social developments. Development zones are vanes of these changes by playing the role as pilot field. To establish development zone are strategic measures in mechanism arrangements, and these development zones have been supporting and pushing China’s reform to a further degree by contributing to mechanism design with their rich experience in mechanism innovation. On the map of China’s development zones, Pudong, without any doubt, takes an important place to pass over experimental experiences, and thus should be regarded as a specimen to watch China’s modernization transformation and strategic significance. The research to Pudong case in this article is expected to bring certain lights to the thoughts on the relationship of regional administration system and modernization transformation, on the strategic target, path and structure of regional development, and is expected to bring some experiences to be borrowed, duplicated, or sustained in China’s development.Pudong case is part of the successful experience of China case, but on the other hand, makes its special contribution to the China case. As a pioneer in reforming and as a pilot field to experiment the reforms, Pudong government has been actively making reforming is public administration to meet the demands of its own developments and to fulfill its tasks to bring experience to the national administration innovation. The issue that which parts of these experiences originated from the specific needs of Pudong at a certain time and which parts can be abstracted as universal values, methods and prototypes are always motivations and highlights of many researches.The core value of Pudong model is government-orienting developments. The local government has been dedicated to establishing an operation system on the basis of market economy, while building up a social system and mechanism with the core value of partnership between government and social organization and the value of shared public responsibility. The success of Pudong model is also due to the path and methodology it has chosen. Political leaders and Pudong builders chose accurate target and path for its development. To practice Pudong strategy as a state mission effectively put Pudong at a starting point and presented a shortcut for its development. On the basis of guidelines putting forward the general plan and target, Pudong has been taking gradual reforms in concrete development tactics, which has reduced the transformation cost. The success of Pudong model lays upon a solid basis of efficient practicing system and abundance mechanism resources. Whenever the development tactics are identified, a series of supporting systems are established to effectively support these tactics. Pudong’s practices with China’s characteristics verify the role of development zones as pilot field, pioneer and engines during the process of China’s modernization. The administration system of development zones could be constantly adjusted at various development states so that the organizational design shall meet the requirements of local reality. In all, the final destination is to build up a modern region and integrate growth of less developed area with the developments of urbanized area. To establish the rational authority of governments with the tool of public efficiency, to highlight the role of individual citizen as the main functional body for economic growth, community management and local development, to plan the development of urban and rural areas in one package, and to practice the growth of industry with community development as one integrity, these are experiences of Pudong strategy and are its target as well. Pudong case present a practical path for China’s modernization process. In this case, the traditional government authority is still maintained, while on the other hand, the power, organizational and employee numbers of government are limited and the rules of market operation and social developments are fully respected. During this process, gradual reforming tactics and drastic changes are planed and practiced with the tools of organizational transformation and system design; the highlighted growth of certain area and the focus for industrial growth are combined with overall forwarding and community development. The gradual transformation within the framework of overall planning and organizational design are practiced step by step and stage after stage. When entering a stage to face tougher challenges, China’s reform needs to be further accelerated by combing the gradual transformation with top mechanism design and system renovation. When it comes to the power structure, Pudong case tells the destined necessity to transform from the centralized power to differentiated and degraded power system and from a pyramid power structure to a flat power network. This transformation is practiced in the administration interior system by designing the upper and lower organizations inter-complementary to each other and by differentiating the power allocation among parallel organizations, is practiced in the reforms toward market operation and power decentralization, and even more importantly, is practiced in the establishment of shared responsibility among official bodies and social organizations for community management.Pudong’s administration model is a part of the China model. It is a case telling the Chinese characteristics, Shanghai’s local reality and the specialty of this time. This case and its research will be continued for the purpose of providing a prototype to generate sustainable development for China’s modernization and contributing more elements to the China model.