Discussion On Changes Of Government - Dominated System And Its Changes

The reform of more than twenty years in China is, in fact, a process of institutional change .Up to now, the reform (or institutional change) in our country has already made great achievements and attracted worldwide attention, which should be due to the right choice of the way of Chinese institutional change. Just because of that, plenty of scholars showed keen interests in the way of the institutional change in our country and brought forth their hypotheses in succession, such as the theory of coexistence of dual ways of institutional change, the theory of "three stages" in institutional change, the theory of transformation of the main body's role in institutional change, and the theory of coexistence and gradual transformation of plural ways of institutional change .One of the shared viewpoints in these hypotheses is that the institutional change dominated by the government is the leading way of institutional change in our country.The so-called institutional change way dominated by the government is that the institutional change is introduced and implemented by the government's orders or laws. The institutional change dominated by the government in our country has the following characteristics: The basic line and criteria of the institutional change are established by the government; in a institution-supplier's capacity, the government supplies institutions by the means of laws, legal provisions, policies and so on; the government sets up the barriers for institutional innovation and restricts the institutional innovation of the main body in market; the government selectedly promotes the happening of induced institutional change and improves its level of standardization and institutionalisation . The institutional change dominated by the government in our country is not always dominated solely by the central government, and with the change of the relationship between the central and local government, the government and the market, the status of the local government and the main body inmarket as the main body of institutional change gradually becomes startlingly clear. Because the institutional change dominated by the government can provide a stable environment for institutional evolution, rapidly bring up the necessary institutional arrangements during the course of institutional change, and reduce the cost of institutional arrangements, it plays a great role in the past institutional change.So far, in our country, " The socialist market economy has taken shape initially." And to perfect the socialist market economy has become the new historical mission. Under the new situation, the old way of institutional change dominated by the government will conflict with the aim of the institutional change, which will result in the transformation of the way of institutional change in our country. In order to keep pace with the times, we should position the role of the government reasonably, improve the government's ability of institutional innovation; re-establish the relationship between the central and local government, strengthen the local government's status as main body of institutional innovation; re-establish the relationship between the government and the market, create an excellent environment for the institutional innovation of the main body in market, so as to establish the pattern of "One Guiding ,Three Coexisting " in the institutional change and to fit in with the needs of market economy's development .