Chinese Local Government Performance Evaluation Studies

With the "New Public Management" movement in the late20th century, the ideology of government performance evaluation has generated through it. Government performance evaluation has developed both in theory and practice through years and now it has become an efficient instrument for the promotion of public administrative system reforms, government decision-making capacity as well as administrative efficiency and service quality. Ever since the1980s, some local governments and units have been exploring and innovating to do various forms of government performance evaluation work based on the successful experience of western countries and their own situations, which has turned out to be fairly successful. Tibetan areas of local government performance evaluation is lagging behind the development of local government performance evaluation, there are many problems. Tibetan areas of local government to study local government performance evaluation is beneficial to Tibetan local governments to deepen administrative reform, the government is conductive to local government innovation and management philosophy is conducive to promoting the Tibetan regions the process of local government performance assessment. However, problems still exist in the following aspects:lack of attaching importance on the evaluation; unreasonable indicator system and lack of legal guarantee. All these lead to the insufficient adoption of the evaluation results and make the local evaluation is a mere formality. This paper summarizes and analyses the developing process and patterns of the government performance evaluation work both in the western developed countries and in China. Based on the examples of Fujian Province, Qingdao, and Gansu Province, the author analyses the experience and deficiency in Tibetan's local government evaluation work in China. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to identify problems, analysis problems, and proceed from reality and find solutions to this problem, so that continuously improves the level of governmental performance.