Study On The Grassroots Practice Of The "Office Combination" Mechanism In China

As a special organization form in Chinese government institutions,"office combination"exists widely in many areas of political process,and enters formal sequence of political institutions reform and administrative reform."Office combination"is different from both "office merger" and "one body two brands",while it has the same form."office combination"refers to a organization form by which two or more organizations with the similar job specification different and responsibilities work together,with the same leadership,showing two or more brands,and achieve the goals of organizational integrity being concise and efficient.Therefore,leaders from the related departments merger into a unified leadership through additional post,and the departments remain their dependent organizations and basic personality.That’s why it’s different from both "office merger"and "one body" strictly.In China’s political area,"office combination" has different forms,which are combinations between organs among the Party,between the Party and administrative organs,between administrative organs,between the Party and social organizations,as well as between the administrative and social organizations.In terms of historical development,"office combination"has been closely related to China’s modern national construction and political institutions reform.From "the limited attempt" in the initial period of establishment of China,to "the recovery and development" in the period of opening-up and reform,and to "the popularization"since the 18th CPC National Congress,"office combination" has become a useful window of observation for China’s modern nation-building,and technical tool of political institutions reform and administrative reform.The existence and development of "office combination" is not accidental coincidence,instead,it’s based on special functions.Under the background of the modernization of the national governance,"office combination" has played an important role in current China’s grassroots governance,including promoting the normalization of party and government relations,enhancing coordinated government governance and effectiveness of national governance.This special organizational form has some negative effects in its operation,including bringing about some barriers to the checks and balances of power as well as departmental vertical linkage.Therefore,we should comprehensively get hold of the double-faced functions.Under the direction of the modernization of the national governance,we need take effective measures to improve the establishment and operation of "office combination",to make it embedded better in the institutional logic of China’s grassroots practice.More specifically,we need to establish principles of being scientific and legal for the "office combination",optimize the set up processes and make the threshold of implementation standardized.Besides,we need to regulate running mechanism of "office combination" and make it more scientific,standard and high efficient.