The Definition And Conversion Of The Government Role--The Premise Of The Efficient Government

What should a government do? What role should the government play in social development? This is the topic concerned by all of the world, and also the precondition of the question about how a government position, enter and act its role, which must be studied and solved by governments of all countries and all levels, in order to meet the times' demand. Since the end of 1970's and the beginning of 1980's, a worldwide tide of "government reformation" has emerged, and the "refigure of governmental role" has become the theme of government reformation. In the global tide of government reformation, the Chinese government has been searching for a rational and effective role that coincides with the socialistic market economy system. The topic of this essay is focused on how the Chinese government rationally define and change its role, expatiates in the following five parts: Partâ… , Concept Analysis of Government and Government Role . Analyzes the meaning of government in broad sense and narrow sense, argues that the main task of a government is to provide public product and service, to provide the society with equitable and stable social order. "government's role" is the visualized description of a government's function, it confirms the function of a government by humanizing it. This concept is closely related to the government's property, position, power, function and task, refers to many aspects of the government, such as power limit, function range. Part â…¡, Actuality and Result of Chinese Government's Role and Function. Basically speaking, the current role of our government is still "almighty government " and "controlled government ". analyzes the main expressions of "almighty government " and "controlled government ", and their harms. Part â…¢, The Necessity of the Government's Changing its Role. Discusses the reasons why our government must change its role from angles of the development of market economy, request of political civilization and the formation of multi-factor social system. Part â…£, Obstacles Against the Government's Changing its Role. Analyzes the conflicts obstacles our government encounters in changing its role, mainly in three aspects:First, the behavior inertia brought by the plan economic system of long time. It prevents the government from completely changing its role in short time.Second, with the massive influence of traditional administrative culture, the civil servants' are subjective unwilling to change their roles.Third, benefit drive, the "vested interest" from current system is against the government's changing its role. Partâ…¤, the Choice of Chinese Government's Role Which Suits the Market Economic System and its Realization. In the process of establishing and improving market economy, our government is undergoing the following changes: from an almighty government to a limited government; from administrative control to macro adjustment; from a government that makes plans to a government that guides the market; from a government operated by power to a government that serves the social public; from a government ruled by persons to a government ruled by laws; meanwhile, the government's management changes from centralization to participation.The realization of the government role's effective change should be in the five ways as followed: One is to change the conceptions of both the civil servants and the citizens; next is to cultivate and develop public social organizations, raise their abilities to manage the society; and is to adopt market competition mechanism into public service, realize the coexistence of multi public service providers, break up the government monopoly of public product supply; then is to realize the openness of public affairs, enhance the "government response"; the last is legalization of government function.