Good relations between central and local are very important to the stability of a country. It's an important foundation for the harmonious development. China is a large country with vast territories and huge population, there are several ethnic minority autonomous areas, especially, Hong Kong SAR, Macao SAR and Taiwan due to historical reasons, these factors determine how to handle the central-local relations and the implementation of local self-government system in line with China's national conditions, which are related to national stability, prosperity and long-term stability of the conditions. It has a very important theoretical and practical significance to discuss the issue. The U.S. is one of the worlds large; post-independence who has also been faced with how to handle the relationship between federal and local issues. After two hundred years of development and practical, the United States achieved a lot after carry federal system. Based on U.S. local government system and local self-government as a research topic, the development process between the local government of the United States benefits and help develop China's local self-government and governmental systems in the future.This thesis is divided into four parts:The first part, the origin of local self-government and its constitutional value, From the U.S. definition of the local government and local self-start, explains how the United States define and study by the local government; describes the U.S. history of local government and local self-development, and its functions and powers; demonstrates the constitutional value after United States two hundred years of local government history.The second part , the U.S. local and federal division of authority and influence factors, explained the U.S. federal government and local government authority, and how to deal with the elaboration when local government and the U.S. federal government has disputes; analysis of factors, as well as the legislative, financial, and administrative dispute resolution.The third part, the new development of the U.S. federal and local governments and local relations, Local Autonomy and the United States the relationship between federal and local changes in the elaboration of its recent emergence of some new initiatives are analyzed; for the United States between local governments and federal and local changes in the characteristics and future trends are discussed.The fourth part, the U.S. system of local self-government reform of the Chinese government for reference, first, discuss the current local government system in our country and the problems of local self-government; and then analysis of the five core aspects of governance by discussing the local governments system from the United States Proposed standard public finance and the implementation of local government of the U.S. as well as the decision-making system of the three principles of democracy and other systems of reference to China. |