Local Government Competition And Regional Governance

As the reform and opening up for 30 years, China's economy and society as a whole has undergone enormous changes, regional economic development has also made remarkable achievements. But it also brings regional and interregional and regional imbalance in development between the provinces within, especially in the development and welfare levels between provinces imbalance. How to guide local governments to engage in healthy competition and to promoting regional balance of governance, achievement of balanced regional development.This article aims to local government and local governance from the general concept, analysis of local competition and regional governance in relationship to the central region as the analysis of China's case, sum up the central status of local governments compete to analyze competition between local governments on the regional economy of government effect. Local Governance in the central region that the goal orientation and performance-oriented: that surrounding the realization of interests of local governments (efficacy) to maximize the collection, or to focus on achieving individual and collective interests of local government officials and area residents to maximize the interests of maximizing behavior and goals, gave birth to competition among local governments in China. In such a pattern of non-healthy competition,The negative effect of competition, gradually appearing. As a result, competition between local governments emerged in local protectionism, redundant construction and disorderly competition, short-term behavior and opportunistic behavior such as heterogeneity, resulting in the economy in the regional market segmentation and regional economic disparities.The article also further explore the competition between local governments resulting from deep soil: the institutional basis, as well as the central region of local government in the regional market order in the interests of game. Advocates an institutional level (the relationship between central and local institutionalization of the reform of performance appraisal system, poor competition control), local governance capacity building level, the central level, regional market development and citizen participation in local government level to regulate competition, topromote regional balanced treatment.