A Study On Functional Positioning Of Local Governments For Attracting Investments From Overseas

As economic globalization deepens, China’s investment environment is also changed with the step of changing from the planned economy to the market economy. In2014, the state council formally issued "the notice of clearing up the tax preferential policies”, require local government at all levels to clean up and standardize its preferential policies of fiscal expenditure, tax, non-tax income and formulate the preferential policies of fiscal expenditure. There is an urgent need for the local government to adjustment its position and the local government should cooperate with the enterprises in the investment promotion, rather than do everything on its own without the participation of the market. In a word, Government and enterprises should take their own responsibility and promote investment environment more scientific,systematic and standardized, so as to promote regional economic development in a rapid,healthy and stable way.This article refers to a large number of documents written by different domestic and foreign scholars, all about the functions of the government and investment. On these bases, this article outlines two views and clear the concept of investment promotion and government function of investment promotion. The author of this article has the experience of working in local government investment attraction bureau. This article combined the thought of this working experience and the summery of different views on this problem. Beside, this article has gathered a lot of data on this question,and on these basis, this article analyze the current situation of investment promotion bureau of Changchun. In this article, there are the review of achievement of Changchun’s investment attraction and the record of the change of government participation model. The last but not the least the assay point out how to solve the problem of the government can not find its right position in investment promotion.Finally, the author put forward three feasible suggestions about the function orientation problems of relevant government departments in investment promotion and capital introduction activities. Shifting investment ideas, innovating the mode of investment promotion and capital introduction; setting up the scientific achievement view, establishing reasonable assessment of investment promotion and capital introduction mechanism; explicating government function positioning, strengthening the role of enterprises in investment promotion activities.With the improved and development of market economy gradually, it is necessary for the government to exit the field of investment promotion and capital introduction.Local government only to establish the functions of the government more in line with China’s national conditions and development stages, and recognize the government’s position in the market economic activities, improve the quality of government services,play their responsibility is the most effective approach to promote the region economy development.