A Study Of China's Governmental Administrative Cost Control

To reduce administrative cost is valued by Chinese Party andgovernment as the main objective to deepen administrative system reform and promotepolitical construction and political system reform, which was first put forth in 16th NationalCongress of Communist Party of China (2002). Research on China's governmentaladministrative cost plays an important role in carrying out super ministry system reform, increasing administrative efficiency and establishing a normative, coordinative, open, honest and efficient administrative management system.Based on the perspective of economics, this paper firstly touches upon the theoretical prerequisite of research on the subject, time, process, form and effect resulting from China's governmental administrative cost, explains and demarcates the connotation of China's government's scale and capability, illustrates its effect mechanism and evaluation norm. According to Marx's Theory of Social Re-production, this paper analyzes the inevitable existence of administrative cost, and puts forth the internal logic and order of behavorial hypothesis of public servants (personel with multiple skills) and governmental organizational limited rationality as the further analysis of the theoretical basis of administrative cost. Secondly, it analyzes the current situation of high cost of China's governmental administration (one of the highest cost in the world) vertically and horizontally in the use of data, the existing problems of high cost volume, imbalanced cost structure and unreasonable management, and the ideational, systematic and mechanical causes through the three aspects of public servants as individuals, governmental organizations and governmental administrative operations. Finally, it illustrates the objectives and principles of how to control the governmental administrative cost, which is a systematic project; and establishes a multi-level system control mechanism of public servants as individuals, governmental organizations and governmental administrative operations under the guidance of system control theory, and offers the suggestions of governmental administrative costcontrol, that is, reconstructing governmental idealism, strengthening cost consciousness, carrying out super ministry system reform and introducing some competitive mechanisms.