A Study On The Construction Of Service-oriented Government Of Resource-based Cities

Since the1980s, Western countries have been raising a new wave of publicadministration reforms. Improving the quality and level of the government’s publicservice is considered as the major value orientation of those reforms. The objective thatWestern governments are pursuing to struggle is to create a fast and efficient new publicservice system. During The Seventeenth Party Congress held in2007, Hu Jintaoannounced that “we must accelerate the reform of administrative system and build aservice-oriented government” in the report of CPC. It was the first time that ServiceGovernment was formally written in the report of the Seventeenth Congress, whichestablished the basic direction and objective for the reform of governmentadministration system in a coming period. Whether from the theoretical research ofservice-oriented government, or the practice of service-oriented governmentconstruction in China, now local governments at various levels all over the country haverealized the importance of building a service-oriented government. l Based on therecognition of this, governments from central to local all put forward many effectivecountermeasures and make some useful exploration.The resource-based cities are not only an important part of China’s urban economy,regional economy and even the national economy, but also the major suppliers of rawmaterials and natural resources required by the national economic construction. For along time, resource-based cities played a “growth pole” role in the economicdevelopment. Also because of the lead and development of resource-based cities, thestructure of regional economy in China has been improved dramatically and thecoordinated development of regional economy has been promoted. However, due to thenon-renewable properties of natural resource, the advantage of original resource will beerased gradually with overexploitation of resources in resource-based cities, whichrestricts the development of industries related to the exploration of resources.Ultimately, it will lead to the recession of our resource-based cities’ economy. Thecurrent crisis is transition. The transformation of cities can not avoid the synchronoustransformation of local governments, so the service-centric transformation ofgovernments becomes the direction and focus of the reform of resource-basedgovernments. At present the construction of service-oriented governments in China onlypays more attention to the development of general city governments, but less to theresource-based city governments.This paper carries on analyzing and thinking the position of constructing service-orientedgovernments in resource-based cities. It is divided into five parts. The introduction discusses thestudy purpose and significance of the topic, and explains the domestic and foreign researchsituations, contents and methods, also brings the conclusion of the innovation. The second part analyzes the connotation, features and relative theoretical basis of resource-based cities. The thirdpart explains the motivation and necessity of constructing service-oriented governments in theresource-based cities while the forth part analyzes the existing problems in the construction. Thefinal part summarizes the basic path of constructing service-oriented governments in theresource-based cities.