Comparison Of Government's Function While Going Through Transition In China And Russia

The system transition means going through transition from the planned economicsystem to the market economic system. The countries while going through transition arebetween the planned economy and the market economy. So the functions of those nationalgovernments are different from the government under traditional planned economy,different from the government under the developed market economy too. It needs to makea clear definition to the government's function. However, to this question, both easterneconomic theories and western economic theories have not offered an available answer. Soanother definition of government's function is one brand-new subject that may breakthrough tradition knows in transition economy, and it has important theory meaning.Regard China and Russia as the big developing countries which reform orientation isto setting up market economy, economy of both countries are going through transitionduring the past time. But China and Russia had walked in two different reform roads,namely the ways of evolutionary reform and radical reform. Among them, the governmentsof two countries had played different roles. Different roads and government's functions hadcaused to be totally different reform performance. So, we choose China and Russia'sgovernment which going through transition to carry on research and compare. It cansummarize the regular things, thus offer certain reference for the countries in goingthrough transition, and it has important realistic meaning.The economic system of Russia goes through transition and adopts the radical "shocktreatment"; breaks traditional highly centralized planned economic system; hopes buildingup market system "overnight"; replaces the tradition plans then the market becomes thebasic strength. They assert that market can replace government completely; farergovernment departing from market, better the economy becomes. Practice of the reformhas proved that the radical liberalization reform has strong romantic colors. The following...