| As a special type of enterprise, state owned enterprises play a very important role in the development of China’s economy. The state-owned enterprises to the relatively large size, all assets owned by all countries, products related to people’s life, profits and taxes paid more decides state-owned enterprises in our country national economy occupies an important position. Under the planned economy, the government departments are expanding, the production enthusiasm and creativity of the state-owned enterprises are insufficient, the national financial burden is too heavy and so on.Therefore, our country has carried on the economic system reform. In the process of economic system reform in our country, the state-owned enterprise reform as the core part of the concern. In more than 30 years of reform, the state-owned enterprises have experienced several stages, such as the expansion of enterprise autonomy, the establishment of a dual economic system, and the construction of modern enterprise system. The relationship between government and enterprises also from the initial expanding enterprise self sovereignty, decentralization and profit sharing, separated and reattached to further separated and reattached, showing a process of development and change. The relationship between government and enterprises affects the process of the reform of state owned enterprises. 30 years of reform, the state-owned enterprises in a number of stages in the use of different forms of reform, and achieved success at the same time also bring many problems.There are many reasons for these problems, in addition to the operating mechanism of the state-owned enterprises themselves and the external environment, especially with the government has a close relationship. At the present stage, our country government in the reform of state-owned enterprises bear public policy making, state-owned assets of supervisors and managers, market economic activities participants and other functions, and the reform of state owned enterprises has a complicated relationship. Therefore, in the reform of state-owned enterprises, the correct handling of the relationship between government and enterprises is a key link in the success or failure of its reform.In this paper, the use of the theory of property right theory, modern enterprise system theory, new public management theory and new institutional economics, by means of empirical analysis and comparative analysis, analysis of the problem of the relationship between the government and the state-owned enterprises. From the course of the reform of China’s state-owned enterprises, the government has been in adominant position, so many scholars have also seen the socialist market economy as a "government led economy". This shows that in the current economic environment, how to correctly handle the relationship between the market, business and government three will be related to the success of the reform of state-owned enterprises. Clarifying the functions of the government in the market economy, clarifying the functions of government and enterprises, can effectively play the role of government in the reform of state owned enterprises.This paper is divided into six parts. First of all, for the government, the enterprise and the market relations and the property right theory, modern enterprise theory, new public management theory and institutional economics related to the content discussed in this paper, which is theoretical base for inspecting the relationship between the government and the state-owned enterprises. Secondly, it analyzes the characteristics of the relationship between the government and enterprises before the reform and opening up and the problems arising therefrom. Again from the course of the reform of state-owned enterprises to the specific analysis of the relationship between the government and the state-owned enterprises, show that how the government affects the development process of the reform of state owned enterprises. And combined with the problems existing in the relationship between the government and state-owned enterprises, in-depth analysis of its causes. Pointed out that one is by the government led state-owned enterprises, non institutional factors, such as the impact of path dependence; two is on the "SASAC" in terms of job position can be a deviation. Finally,put forward the problem of the status quo to sort out the relationship between the government and the market, the implementation of the separation of government and enterprise: for the SASAC, the establishment of a new supervision model, the establishment of a special fund to separate the various functions. In addition, it is pointed out that deepening the construction of service type government, classification of state-owned enterprises to carry out professional management. Specifically, competitive state-owned enterprises in order to obtain a profit based, state-owned enterprises in order to benefit the first, the quality of public welfare state-owned enterprises, special functions of state-owned enterprises in the national economic security. Thus further deepening the reform of state-owned enterprises, to promote the coordination and sustainable development of the national economy. |