Study Of China's Government Procurement System

Government procurement system, one important part of public finance system, functions as fundamental instrument for market economy countries to administrate public expense, and is also a financial system conforming to the international convention for China to economize financial funds most directly and effectively. Government procurement has been practised in some experimental units from 1996, and is being popularized across the whole country now. However, with the size of government procurement fund increasing and the scope extending, which is caused by the popularizing, there exist more and more problems in government procurement administration which have diminished the efficiency and should be solved properly and timely. Therefore, it will be a creative research of important significance for theory and practice to explore and design the standard, scientific and high-efficient government procurement system adaptive to our socialist market economy system through analyzing these problems and contradictions existing in government procurement system and learning from the practice of other countries.This thesis puts equivalent emphasis on positive analysis and normative analysis with many charts and figures, the method of comparison used also. The framework of government procurement system more adaptive to China is designed based on the comparison between the practices of foreign governments and China government. This thesis positively analyzes the relevant materials of past several years in order to sustain the author' s viewpoint. Moreover, this thesis adopts many charts and figures made out of relevant materials and literatures in order that the theories can be more easily comprehended, the argument more clear, and the conclusion more convincing. As basic methods, positive analysis and normative analysis are used frequently in the last part of this thesiswhere the corresponding policy suggestions are provided.Started from the introduction of the mainly practice of government procurement in recent years, this thesis analyzes the status of our government procurement about procurement mode, procurement form, procurement size and procurement scope, and then researches into the reasons for the enumerated problems. Firstly, this thesis explores the basic principles, system framework and the mechanism of procurement systems adopted by foreign countries among which US, UK and Korean are especially selected as examples for China to analyze and learn in order to solve the problems appearing in our practice. In virtual of the internationalization trend of government procurement, this thesis pays much emphasis on world trade organization agreement on government procurement from which some ideas are obtained that would be helpful for us to provided appropriate suggestions. Moreover, based on the principles and objects of government procurement, this thesis analyzes the proper choice between the centralized and decentralized patterns, the design of performance evaluation system and the construction of supervision, providing appropriate policy choices to perfect our government procurement system that should be taken in the near future. Additionally, the arguments on the establishment and advancement of county government procurement system are given also..