Service-oriented Government: The Only Way Our Government Restructuring In A Harmonious Society

The harmonious society is pursued by mankind continually, and government plays an extremely important role in building a harmonious society. To transform the government model as soon as possible and build service-oriented government are the objectives and the inevitable choices of the Chinese government reform. To study the service-oriented government from the perspective of building the harmonious society, first we should define the conception of the service-oriented government clearly, then based on our analysis of the government transformation and its status quo, we propose the countermeasures, that are, to change the governance ideology, to transform the government function and to build specific systemsThis paper is mainly divided into three parts:In the first part, we define the connotation of the service-oriented government, and have a brief analysis of the characteristics of a service-oriented government, its main functions and the significance of building a service-oriented government on the background of constructing the harmonious society.In the second part, based on the analysis of the transformation of government management model, we put emphasis on the problems of the Chinese government, including the government ideology' misalignment, the government functions' misalignment, the government' unregulated behavior and imperfect system.In the third part, we propose the countermeasures of building a service-oriented government, that is, to establish the "society-based","citizen-based" service ideas and the administrative ideas guided by the views of the scientific development concept; to define the government functions scientifically and change the function focus from economy to social management and public service; to build a decision-making system, the public financial system, the achievement evaluation system and the civil service system in accordance with the service-oriented government.