New Public Management And China's Administrative Reforms

Ever since the founding of our country, along with the changes of the national developmental circumstances, China's administrative organizations have been reformed many times. These transforms reflected that our nation managed to understand and develop the administrative management system in order to carry out our socialist construction. So we can say, these transforms have produced active influences in different degree to perfect the administrative management system in China, and have brought about some effects to accelerate national economic development, stabilize social life and social public security. But these transforms didn't obtain prospective results completely. Especially, some administrative reforms before 1998, on the contrary, resulted in some maladies and disadvantages in some aspects to the system of administrative control. Consequently, these reforms affected the function of national administrative control. Along with the entry into WTO, our nation has further melted itself into the progress of globalization. The progress of globalization being quickened continuously enhances requests upon the governmental management level. Therefore, these situations demand us to further quicken the system reforms of administrative under the new local and international situation.At the same time, to meet the challenge of the globalization, informationization and aggravating international competition, since the 1980s, almost the whole world, especially all the western developed countries, have rolled up a tidal current of public administrative reform to get away from the finance predicament and to increase governmental efficiency. In this tidal wave of publicadministrative reform, the practice model of the New Public Management becomes the most basic trend that western governmental reforms hold. This management thought has produced deep influences to all the western governmental practice. The governmental administrative frameworks, managerial conceptions and service paradigms of the western developed countries are just like those Britain and America have already undergone in comparative degree. And the public management levels of the western countries have been improved in comparative degree. This thought promoted the economical and social development of the western countries. At one time , it strengthens the competitive ability in international society. The powers of public administrative reform that come from the New Public Management thought have affected the governmental management reforms in many developing countries more and more.Therefore, this paper will investigate the experiences and precepts in the administrative management system since our country's founding and tries to uncover the problems among them by means of analyzing the change of local situations in our country. At the same time, we want to explore the future development mode in our government constantly and set up the countermeasures of future administrative reform in government by means of analyzing the theory basis and intensive characteristic of new public management, and the practice results in western country.