Research On Policy Innovation Of Local Government During The Implementation Of The Outline Of The Plan In The Pearl River Delta

With the tide of economic globalization and regional economic integration, the regional coordinately development has been very important and urgent. It is not only an issue on practice but also on theory about how to balance the regional development and how to innovate the public policy of local government. From reality demand, the national government formulated "the Outline of the Plan for the Reform and Development of the PRD (2008-2012)"("Outline "for short) in December,2008, which regards the Peal River Delta regional development as the national issue. But the realistic background of the "Outline" implementation is the great competition in local governments of PRD, moreover, there are various administrative barriers and numerous predicaments in local governmental policy innovation. Therefore, how to break the institutional obstacles and innovate local government policies have been the way of the "Outline" implementation. It has very considerable typicality and necessity for the study among local government policy innovation during the process of implementing the "outline"Based on the background above, the research problem is:what are the motivation and the current state of public policy innovation of local governments in PRD? Currently, how do the problems of policy supply of local government effect the implementation of the "outline"? How to increase the efficient policy supply of local government and promote to carry out the PRD regional coordinated development based on the theory of policy innovation?On these issues. The research contents are as follows:Chapter one mainly introduces the background and meaning, then summarizes the research results and reviews comments, and brings out the research methods. Chapter two discusses the motivation of policy innovation of local government in PRD from three aspects, based on the motivation theories of policy innovation of local government:inherent requirements of the policy itself, pursuit of the interests of policy subject and pressure-driven of intergovernmental competition. Chapter three based on the practice of institutional policy innovation, instrumental policy innovation and targeted policy innovative, mainly analyzes the policy supply problems behind the effects: institutional policy barriers led to the Pearl River Delta "Shallow Integration", instrumental policy to regulate the economy is inadequate, and targeted policy still can not effectively resolve regional bottlenecks. It is still facing with challenge of policy innovation on implementing the "outline". Chapter four puts forwards operational advices on how to continuously reform the policy innovation:continuous innovation to promote the "Deep Integration" System-oriented policies, continuous innovation of instrumental policy in order to promote the shift of economic development pattern and continuous innovation of targeted policies to effectively resolve regional bottlenecks.