Research On The Reform Of Local Government Level In China

The structure of local government level means the local governments are divided into several levels vertically. The next membership is in accordance with the formation of a combination of the structure. Since the founding of new China, especially after the reform and open-door policy, the basic system for four levels of local government structure including province-city-county-town are gradually formed. As the market continues to develop and democratic evolves constantly, local government level exposed such various problems under the planned economic system as excessive levels of local government, lower efficiency, higher administrative costs and the city-governing-county issues. These problems have become a serious obstacle to development, yet to be solved.In 2004, Premier Wen Jiabao put forward the idea of promoting "Province-governing-County" trial bases in places of mainland which meet the basic requirements at country's rural tax reform meeting. In 2006, the Fourth Session of the Tenth National People's Congress approves the country's 11^th Five-Year plan, adopting the relevant serious issues on local governments' reform for the first time and raising the reduction of local government level clearly.The article put much emphasis on the research in the local government level reform. The new perspective on the reform of "Province in control over county and Towns self-governing", has been worked out. It means by adjusting the scale of province and county, powerful counties expand authority and gradually abolish city-governing-county. We must carry out the policy of province-governing-county dividedly, withdrawing township authority step by step which shall gradually be changed into the grass-roots self-governing .Finally two-level of province-county system forms.The article is divided into four chapters. The first chapter is about introduction which sets out the theoretical and practical significance of the article in the view of the author and introduces the relevant concepts and the situation of research.Chapter 2 analyzes the current situation of the structure of local government levels on the status of the province-city-county-town-based system, which sets out the necessity of reducing the local government level in motherland in terms of the world-wide comparison, the historical analysis of China and the understanding of administration.Chapter 3 presents the level of local government reform goals and principles. Implementation of reform of local government levels should be planned and executed totally according to the idea of requirements of building a harmonious society, democratic equality, the spirits of the law, the coordinated region, harmonious nation, molten culture and respect for nature.Chapter 4 specifically address the access to the structure reform of local government level by the powerful county in extending the authority , adjusting the scale of province and county to achieve "province in control over county" , by withdrawing and combining township to accomplish grass-roots self-governing and eventually realize township self-governing. The present province-city-county-township-based four-level government system will be changed into primarily province-county-based two-level government system.