China Open Government Information Research

Opening the governmental information has become a common need of people in knowledge economic era. Countries, especially the developed countries have founded the opening institution of governmental information since the later half of twentieth century. It is the respect to the right to know of people, and also the inevitable result of economy globalized and politics democratized. However, the domestic situation is poor. There are lots of problems in publicity of governmental information Because of the lack of institutions and backward ideas. The problems are more outstanding after the entry of China into WTO. How to thoroughly fulfilling the transparency principle of WTO, realizing the right to know of people, and promoting the excellent development of socialist market economy and democracy politics becoming an urgent and important subject to the modern scholars.The article is composed of four parts. Part one is the research of fundamental theory, the main work is introducing the meaning of the freedom of governmental information, discriminating the difference to the relative concepts, and illustrating the theory of the right to know. The contents of part two is pointing out the problems exist in practice of opening the governmental information in our country, and dissecting the causes result to the consequences from different angles. I analyze the pushing power of opening the governmental information from internal cause and external cause in the third part. Lastly, I put forward some countermeasures corresponding the problems from macro-angle and micro-angle.Opening the governmental information is the inevitable choice of all the democratic governments in information era. With the development of legal work of our country, the institution of opening the governmental information will be founded in near future.