Research On Public Participation In Government Investment Project

Government and enterprise are the two main investors in infrastructure projects. In the market economic system, administration on the government investment projects is much stricter than the one on the enterprise investment projects. Generally, the taxpayer is the investor and the construction unit is the owner in government investment projects, while they are always the same entity in enterprise investment projects. With different entities as the investor and the owner, it is likely to induce waste of money and corruption in the government investment projects. Also we lack such a supervision institute that exerts proper supervision and restriction on the projects.Public participation, especially the participation of the groups affected by the projects, can effectively help the investor solve the problems of"moral hazard"and"adverse selection"in principal-agent. Being promoted by the local governments and community groups in many countries, public participation is increasingly considered to be one of the important parts that reflect the management level in the construction projects. The establishment of systematic public participation can help to estimate the project's environmental resource value and improve the public awareness of environment, as a result, perfect the environmental impact assessment system, which is good for the ecological environment and the environment quality, consequently, it helps to maximize the project's comprehensive and long-term benefits. At the same time, it is useful in the deepening and promotion of the reform in administrative mechanisms and quickens the forming of a more normative, harmonious, equitable, translucent, clean-fingered and efficient administrative system.This paper fully expounds the government investment project and its management models, comparatively analyzes the differences between the domestic administrative system in public projects and the one in foreign countries and put forward the countermeasures. Based on the conclusions of the public participation's development and evolution, this paper explains the public participation in construction projects and its theory sources, discusses the approaches and characteristics and analyzes the necessity and feasibility of developing a systematic public participation system in construction projects from the legal and practical aspects as well. Further more, it presents a deep analysis of the influencing factors in developing effective public participation in government investment projects in our country. At last, it puts forward the approaches in enhancing public participation in government investment projects in our country, which include perfecting the relevant legal system, changing the government's function, boosting the public awareness, broadening the ways of public participation, involving the third party and so on.