Will A New Broom Sweep Clean?

Government officials are the representative of the local political power,and have important influences on the development of local government.The replacement of government officials has been widely concerned.On the basis of the existing research,we put forward a key logic of the promotion of government officials behind the economic goal setting.Under promotion incentives,whether new officials will set higher economic growth target to attract the attention of higher authorities,and make a good first impression.This is a new problem we want to solve.Choosing 1072 party secretary in 286 cities during 2002 and 2016 as a study sample,we selected the local government transition(the replacement of municipal party secretary)as a new angle of view and empirically studied its influence on the set of economic growth goal.Meanwhile we analyzed this influence in detail from the dimensions of the new officials’ political background,the new officials’ age and the administrative units of the cities.The results showed that the new official will set a higher economic growth target.By group testing,we have found this effect would be more obvious if the new official not served as Provincial Standing Committee,or younger age or served in the provincial capital.Further study also found that the new official is not willing to vigorously rectify the government group.As a result,this paper argues that the local government leaders in the new office will often set a higher economic growth target,and put a lot of energy to engage in construction.For the goals that are less important to their promotion,the government officials’ attitude is more negative.In this paper,we use the methods of web crawler and text analysis to get the key variables and incorporate economic growth target into the relationship study of government transition and economic development.Moreover,through the investigation of the attitude and the psychology of the local leaders by multi index,the paper reveals the logic and mechanism behind the goal setting of the government,providing some enlightenment for the reformation of appointment system of local government officials,and some suggestions for officials’governance.