Wto Agreement On Government Procurement And Coping Strategies, China's Accession To The Wto

The government procurement is one of the important means for current countries' governments in the world to administrate the social economy;it is one kind of effective ways which marketing economy countries usually adopt for increasing the management of government spending. And also, it is an important part of the financial reform of China. Establishing government procurement system can improve the efficiency of the use of government financial capital, regulate government's consuming behavior, reduce the corruption phenomena, and promote the growth and perfection of the market economy system. Therefore, it is generally adopted by marketing economy countries.The "Agreement on Government Procurement" that Uruguayan round reached, is a plurilateral agreement which is voluntarily joined by the members of WTO and only binding on the parties who have signed it. However, this agreement is considered as a principle embodying the opening degree of market and fair competition by the developed countries of the WTO so its importance has beyond the implication containing in itself. Although China has not signed this agreement when entering the WTO, our protection of the domestic government procurement market has been put upon large international pressure. With the forming of economical globalization and the perfection of liberalization system of international trade, the government procurement will be surely brought into the course of liberalization of international trade. Opening of the government procurement market has been attached more and more importance now, it is just a problem of time to join the "Agreement on Government Procurement" and open our government procurement market.Opening the government procurement market has two sides. After joining the "Ageement on Government Procurement", we can enjoy the benefits of other countries' markets but undertake the liability to open our domestic market as well. We should treat it in a dialectical view.Since China has set up the government procurement system, we have gotten good social benefits and obtained outstanding record, however, because our country has not joined the "Agreement on Government Procurement"and our country's "government procurement law" only governs the domestic government procurement market, ourcountry's law has a lot of stipulation that do not link up with the WTO agreement properly so it is necessary for us to compare the "Agreement on Government procurement" with our country's "government procurement law" to find out the problems and perfect government procurement law of China. China has promised to open the domestic government procurement market in the near future, and then the government procurement field of China will face both domestic and international competition. How to correct the government procurement legal system of China and raise the competence of domestic procurement enterprise is the problem we need to solve as soon as possible.By introducing " Agreement on Government Procurement " of the WTO, pointing out the advantages and disadvantages of joining this agreement and analying present circumstances and the problems in existence of our government procurement market, this paper puts forward some suggestive countermeasures of opening the government procurement market of our country for discussing.