The New Public Management To Reflect On The Applicability Of Administrative Reform In China

As is known to all, a momentous and global campaign of New Public Management has been lunched since the late 1970s and early 1980s. This campaign has made a clean break with traditional bureaucratic mode of administration, and has exerted a great and profound influence on western country's public management, especially on the theory and practice of government administration. At present, China is at a critical stage of transformation of mode on social, economic as well as administrative system, and government administrative system must be speedily reformed and innovated. In this situation, some government officials as well as scholars and experts start to train their eyes on the burgeoning "New Public Management" in the western world, and attempt to utilize this theory to guide China's reform on administration.As there are a great number of similarities concerning the problems confronted in each country's administrative reform, New Public Management is obviously a brand-new theoretical perspective on reform from which China's administrative reform can draw experience. Meanwhile, this reforming trend should not be simply accepted without taking China's national conditions into consideration. Therefore, it is significant to take a reflective thought on the adaptability of New Public Management in China. Based on the reflection, this thesis holds that on the one hand, New Public Management should be combined with China's basic national conditions, and independent theoretical innovations conforming to China's social reality should be made to create an administrative reform theory with Chinese characteristics. On the other, our horizon should not be solely confined to the administrative reform; whereas all aspects of political and economic reforms should also be continuously deepened to create a more adaptable environment for New Public Management.