On The Operation Mechanism Of Government’s Purchasing Public Services In Shandong Province

From now on, improving the quality and performance of the public goods supply system which is centered on public service is an basic task of the structural reforms on supply side; it can also act as a strong grip of transforming the governmental function, speeding the innovation of social management and promoting the modernization of national governance system and management ability., To speed up the process of government purchase of public services in our province, and build a scientific and standardized, efficient operation and sustainable development of the government to buy public service mechanism, turns into the basic requirement of correctly dealing with the relation between government and market and society, also the construction of a modern service, responsible government in our province; and the urgent demand of realizing the equal basic public services and promoting social fairness and justice in our province. That’s why this essay does the systematic and in-depth research on Shandong province’s government purchase of public services.As a classic representative of the new public management movement, the modern government purchase of public services began in the advanced economies which fell into stagflation in 1970s, while it came late in China. In 2013, Shandong province began its step of government purchase of public services by publishing The Methods of Government Purchase of Public Services from Social Power and The Guidance Catalogue of Government Purchase of Public Services from Social Power. In further, local governments begin their exploration, and make some effects. However, constricted by some factors, Shandong Practice still expresses some problems, such as narrow purchase scope, smaller financial scale, the low satisfaction, and so on.As a good example, Weifang city has the better practice in Shandong Province. It insists on the principles of government leading, community participation, public welfare nature and market-oriented operation, on basis of the public health require and the balanced relationship, which constructs a total system of the government purchasing public service. In detail, the system mainly includes defining purchase content, costing account, determining the undertaking party, regulating the performance behavior, implementing evaluation.To further advance the reform and practice, we ought to establish the unified government-leading system, the reasonable public-require-defining mechanism, the competitive purchasing mechanism, the clearly construct-administrating mechanism, and the equitable estimation and supervision mechanism. In a word, the effective, efficient and economical system of government purchasing public services, will bring well benefit for the local management capability of Shandong Province.