The Rise Of Private Enterprises In Town And The Township Governance:in Case Of A Town Named ChenDai In FuJian Province

It’s a doctoral dissertation concerned about the rise of private enterprises in contemporary town and the govenance there. Studying the lacting logic of ineraction and inter-construction between private enterprises and town-level government since1956, the author attempted to explain the transitional path and periodical characteristics in the context of private enterparises’rising and present a futher discussion on reform ways of develop the town and expansion its power and possible breakthrough in new stage.The experience material of this thesis was from the investgation in a town named Chendai. The summary of town-level private enterprises, especially its governnance features was not just based on suveys, but much more on author’s working experience and academic tradition of Institute for political science of Central China Normal Univerity. On the enough investigation data, historical institutionalism was adopted as research method in paper, and the period from1956to now was chosen.it tried to present complicted relationship between private economy and governance transition in the town level by analyzing different bodies of government, village cadres and private enterpriser empirically.Two different analyzing views were used in this dissertation. One view was borrowed from Fei Xiaotong’s research on "Jinjiang Mode". For the mode, Fei Xiaotong made a study on out-expansion traditio and strong desire to get rich in Jinjiang in terms of its own charateristics. Therefore the author argued again on the fomer research on religious organiztions and guilds in Chencun, focusing on the spontaneity and local features. The other view was based on Xu Yong’s research on construction of state power in modern China sine1990s. Xu Yong adopted state constuction as an angle, analyzing and explaining the reform and building of rural society, and concluded that traditional rural society developed naturally, while contemprary one was constructed by the state. Thus, on the relation between rural political power construction and private econmic development, the author paid much more attention to their interactiona and inter-construction, enriching the theoretical connotation and experience explaination for town-level governance of modern state construction.The aim of this thesis was not a theoretical improvement, but a lesson for practice by sum up the transition of town-level governing path. Development of private enterprises in Chendai is a microcosm of economic transition in China twon level, and changes of governance strategies and modes on the town level was meaningful to township construction in future. It concered that the direction of town-level governance transition was from administrative management to public service, the path of it was strongthening the towns, expanding their power and improving their public service ability, and the new characteristic was participatory governance with pattern of "adoptation-negotiation".