Study Of The Credibility Of The Local Government Construction In China

Public trust of the government appears as an important concept which measures the situation and the degree of the government credit. Within the whole social credit system, the government credit stands to be its warranty and backbone. How a national government's credit or public trust is translates into the barometer of its national economic credit that reflects whether the credit circumstances in this country are good or not, which has an important influence upon its political and social development and the economic growth as well.Generally, the public trust of our local governments is gradually moving on improvement at present. However, some areas has taken on a weakening trend which mainly accompanies the following syndromes: weak honest ideas, lack of executive culture, distortion of public policy, unstable and discontinued government decisions with random changes, shortage of publicness and transparency of government affairs without activeness and even with undercount trades, breach of contract and nonfeasance by government, negligence of democratic consciousness by government officials, misposition of official power enforcement, rule by people instead of rule by law, serious local protectionism, abuse of local government functions and so on.There are three main factors leading to the fading of public trust of local governments: current and social elements, government and public involvement. By realizing the necessity of improving the public trust of local governments through looking into these factors, the ideas of converting government management are further put forward, the making of public policies is deepened, the reformation and innovation of relevant systems is carried out, the openness of government affairs is consummated, the supervision and restricting systems of local governments' credit beside go-behind system of executive responsibility are completed and strengthened. Public trust of local governments is promoted by establishing scientific assessment system of local governments' performance and credit. The government image is resculptured and the harmonious society is built.