Service Government And Its Building In China

Government is necessary except for the unpractical anarchists, which has been the common sense of human beings. So the key point of government to think is how to serve the people better. The movements of reinventing government and the "New Public Management", which have been developed in the western countries and in Hongkong and Taiwan, are the practical response to the above question since the end of 1970 times. In our country, we are going through the period of transferring from the plan economic system to market economic system and the market economic system hasn't been established completely. Simultaneously, the development of market economy, especially the entry to WTO, urges our government anxiously to transfer its functions to make a more flexible, more efficient, more clean-fingered and more transparent government. Under this background and the practical request, it is very necessary to use the reinventing government for reference, study and put forward a new mode of governing which suits our current situations. That is to say, we must build a service government.Under the guide of Marxism, using the comprehensive methods of politics, public administration, administrative legislation and public sector economics, based on the relevant studying fruits and information, this essay clearly states that a service government is the government like this: under the condition of socialism market economy, under the guide of citizen standard and society standard, within the frame of socialistic democracy, through the legal procedures and according to the commonwill, the government is established to serve the common citizens with the character of democracy, nomocracy, finity, transparency, efficiency and responsibility; The essay focuses on explaining the theoretical foundations of politics, public administration and administrative legislation, that is to say, theory of people's sovereignty, theory of new public management, theory of administrative legal rule and theory of serving the people; The essay points out that the practical basis of the service government include: the entry to WTO, socialism market economy, socialistic and democratic politics, the movement of reinventing government and the unbalancing development in our society. It states clearly that the above- mentioned 5 aspects are also 5 kinds of forces to push the construction of service government, that is to say, the forces of pushing, driving, lifting, pulling and pressing. On this basis, taking Hongkong, Nanjing and Chengdu (under "one country, two systems", in the eastern developed area and in the western underdeveloped area respectively) for example, the essay further explains the 3 modes of building the service government: customer orientation, citizen participation and standardization. In this way, it proves that building the service government in our country is not only reasonable in theory, necessary in fact, but also operative in the experience. Thus, aiming at the problems exposing in the government concepts, functions transferring, e-government construction, civil servants and public administration supervision mechanism, this essay insists that on the basis of summarizing the mainland experiences and using the Hongkong mode of customer-oriented government and the western mode of reinventing government for reference, we should take pertinent measures to push forward the construction of service government from 7 aspects: strengthening the concept construction to make a government service concept of regarding the people as the root and administrating legally; deepening the reform of the administrative examination and approval system and pushing forward the functions transferring; taking full advantage of the social resources to push forward the socialization of public administration; deepening the reform of the financial system completing the system of public finance; strengthening the construction of e-government to make a more efficient government; bettering the civilian institution to improve the quality ofservants; completing the public admin...