Study On The Relationship Between Universities And Government Under The Socialist Market System

With the arrival of the information era, the competition between different nations mainly focuses on the competition of human resource and science and technology. Universities and colleges, bearing the responsibility for the education of talented people and scientific research, are playing a more and more important role in the development of politics, economy, culture, science and technology. Government has been paying increasing attention to the construction and development of universities, and to better discipline and control universities. The relationship between universities and government is the vital factor influencing the development of universities. Hence, how to adjust the relationship and achieve a win-win result performs a realistic significance. This paper, on basis of the reflection and analysis of the relationship during both the Plan Economy Period and the Transformation Period, discusses the great change that has taken place during the establishing and furthering of socialist market economy due to the change of government functions and application of market function. This paper further displays the mutual effect and influence, together with the inner relations, among the government, market and universities from three aspects, respectively, the government function, nature of market and the tradition and functions of universities. This paper also explores the problems in the establishing of a new strategic relationship among the government, market and universities under the new condition of socialist market economy. The author proposes a novel approach of new relationship among the three in solution to these problems under the guidance of neo-public-management and harmonious ruling theories, that is, a new structure of higher education management which consists of three major categories, a new public education authority structure, an interactive system among government, market and universities, and the establishing of modern university system.