The Analysis Of Our Government's Difficult Position And Countermeasure On Reducing Administrative Costs

According to the report of the sixteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC),"deepen administrative restructuring. We should further change the functions of the government, improve the methods of management, introduce e-government, uplift administrative efficiency and reduce costs so as to form an administrative system featuring standardized behaviors, coordinated operation, fairness and transparency, honesty and high efficiency. Decision on strengthening governing ability building issued in the fourth session of the 16th Central Committee of the CPC further puts"cutting administrative costs"as the essential strategy to"reform and perfect the Party's leading ways", which points out, we should make intensive study on administrative system reform, and continue to promote the reform centering around"increase administrative efficiency, cut administrative costs, integrate administrative resources". The central government attaches so much importance to"cut administrative costs", which is the inheritance and development of traditional administrative principle under the new economical and social conditions, and is also the essential strategy to strengthen the Party building to adapt to the changeable environment and situation."cut administrative costs"has become one of the objectives of administrative reform pursued by the Party, which reflects the value of governing democratic states, public spirits of administrative management, responsibilities towards people and society by the government . Hence, a thorough and systematic study on the administrative costs of the government plays a crucial role in theory and practice for the deep development of government institution reform and the scientific, legal, and modern administrative management.This paper, bravely absorbing and borrowing the latest research achievements on related disciplines about social science, adopting methods like combination of theory and practice, standardized study and field study, makes a deep study and discussion on government administrative costs theory, with the principle of Marxism dialectical materialism and historical materialism.This paper is divided into 4 parts in total. The first part is a brief introduction about the basic theory issue on government administrative costs. Through the analysis of different definitions made by scholars from home and abroad, the writer summarizes the scientific connotation of the government administrative costs according to the national conditions, and expounds the features of administrative costs and the meaning of its rationalization. The second part is a simple discussion and analysis on the scope and evolution trend of the government administrative costs through the longitudinal comparative analysis between the proportion of the government annual finance expenditure in GDP, and the proportion of the administrative costs in finance expenditure, as well as the lateral comparative analysis between China's administrative costs situation and those of other countries'.The third part explains the conflicts between cutting administrative costs and government function, government interests, bureaucratic system, government behavior, and administrative consciousness, and then analyzes the plight we encounter on cutting administrative costs.The fourth part, proposes the basic thoughts and channels for cutting administrative cost: moral restriction, system reform, technology innovation, and guarantee outward, using the latest research achievements on related disciplines about social science, on the basis of redefining the connotation of administrative costs, and analyzing the plight of cutting administrative costs, so as to promote regulative expenditure, rational use, standard control, scientific supervision of the government administrative costs.The key of academic study is innovation, which is the fundamental way to develop theories and the lifeline of the academic study. This paper clearly suggests two premise for studying the government administrative costs, and expounds defining administrative costs should consider the national situation. Only by doing this, can we make a scientific explanation on administrative costs. Under this premise, this paper firstly defines"the government administrative costs"combining the four factors which influence the government administrative costs concept. Meanwhile, this paper enlarges the scope of administrative costs concept towards the academic field's mistaking administrative costs for the economical costs consumed in the administrative management, ignoring the political, time, and labor costs during the process. Under the influence of the thought, there exists the situation of making the cutting administrative finance expenditure equal to cutting administrative costs. In addition, because the papers studying administrative costs are mainly start from the situation and behavior of the government administrative costs, propose resolutions on the technology level or the operation level to solve the overhigh administrative costs problems, although some local governments have adopted some effective method, they still do not solve this problem completely. What's more, due to the irrational increasing of the administrative management expenditure, this paper not only pays attention to the superficial behavior and resolutions of the government administrative costs, trying to lead the study to the moral and consciousness level, and explain why the good suggestions proposed by scholars on administrative costs do not reach the expected results after they are adopted by the government.