Jilin Province Merging Townships And Town Practice And Reference Of The Administrative Reform In China

Township government reform is a microcosm of China's administrative reform, administrative reform of China's an important part of the system by summing up the experience of the reform of township government and deficiencies of the administrative system can be for our country as a whole in the process of a number of sensitive issues, to find some solutions.Withdrawal of the reform of rural town in Jilin Province, and can be traced back 90 years in the late twentieth century. From 1998 to June 2009, Jilin Province conducted in two phases of the large-scale dismantling and merging the work of the township. Withdrew a total of 288 towns, the province's total number of townships in 1998 accounted for 909 of 31.6% achieved Jilin Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government made no less than 30% of the township dismantled or merged target. After more than ten years of reform, economic and social development in Jilin Province has made remarkable achievements, in particular in:rural cluster effect appeared; administrative structures and personnel to be streamlined; the power to reduce rent-seeking behavior. However, we also clearly see that the withdrawal of the effectiveness of township and town work is clearly in the same time, the highlights of some unavoidable contradictions, but also will touch on the soft underbelly exposed. We should fully recognize that reform has not been easy, not overnight, there are still shortcomings and difficulties in the following:withdrawal of village and town, the implementation of the procedures are still not perfect, the leadership of racking our brains have taken place the decision-making; withdrawal of rural and town flawed incentive system to stimulate the local government blindly promoting the dismantling and merging work; official based thinking is still strong, right, and the town formed a strong resistance to reform; theory of ill-prepared, "size fits all" approach is still there; many problems left over by history to deal with difficult and so on.We should examine the focus on the dismantling and merging towns, from the national administrative system, and then from the height of political system, to know the dismantling and merging towns included in this reform, the significance of the practice to study the experience it provides and lessons learned. Withdrawal of China's township and the town of the administrative system has to explore the mirrored meaning, manifested in: make the service government as a goal,weaken it power;Start from the reform on finance administration as the entire administration system;reduce the reform cost as the longway benefit goal;start from attrition and settlement as the key, in that decrease the barriers on reform.