Research On Legal System Of Reception For Public Affairs In The Construction Of Economical Government

The Party’s17th National Congress proposed building a resource-conserving society. As social manager, the government has responsibility of playing a pioneering role in building the resource-conserving society and builds a economical government to establish clean-fingered and saving public image. Reception for public affairs is important content of daily work for various levels of government institutions. Expense for official entertaining is an indispensable part of the government’s administrative cost. However, in practice, because the legal system of reception for public affairs is not perfect, currently spending of domestic public reception is obviously beyond the reasonable category. Many problems have been exposed, such as fuzzy reception standard, casually expanding the reception scope, wasting much fund, confused procedures, tacit corruption existed in the process of reception. Official entertaining has become the important reason for high cost of government operation. It is the indispensable measure to reform the legal system of official entertaining for the construction of resource-efficient government.This paper takes the legal angle and applies the countermeasure analysis method to analyze the current situation and the main existing problems of the legal system of official reception. It has proposed the specific strategies of reforming on the basis of foreign related legal system. The paper is divides into four parts. In the first part, the concepts of reception, official reception and legal system of official reception are defined, thus the subject is determined. It puts forward the three basic principles that the legal system should observe, which are the principles of receiving according to law, strict procedure and transparency. And then it elaborates that reforming the legal system is of important significance and it can promote the construction of resource-efficient government, improve the government credibility and perfect the anti-corruption system. In the second part, it introduces the present situation of legal system of official reception, and analyzes the main problems exposed. In its view, the current legal system has serious defects which are highlighted in weak law system, nonstandard source of expense, defect surveillance system and vacancy of accountability system. In the third part, it studies the modes and enlightenment of foreign official reception’s legal system. It mainly researches on related system of Russia, Japan and western countries. Then it arrives three enlightenments which are legalization of official reception, rigorous official budget for official reception and publicity of related information. The enlightenments can provide beneficial references for improving our legal system of official reception. The fourth part makes a preliminary study on specific measures of reforming the legal system in our country. In view of the current main problems, four countermeasures are put forward: suggesting to legislate relevant law; revising the current budget to standardize funding sources of official entertaining; constructing comprehensive supervision system; establishing the juristic responsibility system of official entertaining.