Good Governance in China - A Way Towards Social Harmony

<p>Good governance is necessary for effective public administration and delivery of public goods and services. This is an important issue for all countries, but in particular for rapidly developing countries such as China where reform of governance and public administration is a key element of the public policy agenda. This book explores the key issues in governance and public administration facing China’s policy-makers today. Edited by Wang Mengkui, the former President of the Development Research Center of the State Council, and Chairman of the China Development Research Foundation - one of China’s leading think-tanks - it contains 36 papers selected from nearly 300 case studies presented by participants in the China’s Leaders in Development Executive Program. The authors are outstanding and experienced officials, and together represent the voice of China's new rising generation of leaders, policy-makers and officials. The cases are based on first-hand information and experiences either from the officials’ personal involvement, or their own in-depth investigations. The chapters cover a wide range of issue areas, such as institutional reform, urban construction, social governance, crisis management, resource and ecological environmental management, education and public health, and economic reform and development. Taken together, it provides an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to understand China’s own thinking on its governance and public administration. </p> <p><strong>Part 1: Reform of the Government Administration System </strong>1. Why Private Coffers are Rampant <em>Sun Baohou </em>2. An Experiment of Radical and Holistic Change <em>Gao Zhili </em>3. A Case of Construction of the Governmental Information Network in Jiangxi <em>Li Chun-yan </em>4. A Study of How to Improve the System of Civil Servant Performance Evaluation <em>Zhai Tianshan </em>5. Controversy Arising from the Experiment on Expanding the Powers of the Town and Township Governments in Shaoxing County <em>Huang Xuming</em> <strong>Part 2: Urban Construction and Social Administration </strong>6. New Stories of Old Shantytowns <em>Sun Guoxiang </em>7. The Heating Charges of ‘Ice City’ <em>Piao Yi </em>8. Internet Cafés: What Else Can Be Done in Addition to Rectification? <em>Wang Xueqin </em>9. The Road to Community Correction <em>Zhang Sujun </em><strong>Part 3: Crisis Management and Group Incidents </strong>10. Twenty-six Days and Nights for the Pollution of Tuojiang River <em>Liu GuoQiang </em>11. Emergency Response in the City Management <em>Wu Shixiong </em>12. Analysis of the Efficiency of Government Participation in Restructuring High-risk Listed Companies <em>Wang Huimin </em> 13. Settlement of the Taxi Drivers’ Strike <em>Fang Li </em>14. Pension Insurance Demands of the Former Town and Township Temporary Personnel <em>Zhong Mian </em> 15. How Was a Collective Complaint Arising from Land Acquisition Solved? <em>Chen Qingliang </em><strong>Part 4: Resources and Ecological Environment </strong>16. Analysis of the Ban on Crop Stubble Burning <em>Yang Shuping </em>17. Should Government-Supported Projects causing Pollution be Permitted if Civilians are not Allowed to be Involved in those Projects? <em>Chen Zhongbo </em>18. How Ground Subsidence Was Solved in Southern Jiangsu Province <em>Zhang Lei </em>19. On Selecting a Location For the Nanxi River Water Conservancy Project <em>Zhang Miaogen </em>20. Sixiao Highway: From Difficulty to Success <em>Zhao Jin </em><strong>Part 5: Education and Public Health </strong>21. Event of ‘Immigrants for NCEE’ <em>Xu Jun </em>22. College Graduates ‘Go to Mountains and Villages"-- Idealistic or Realistic? <em>Lu Gang </em>23. An Analysis and Practice of Financial Assistance to Poor Students in Higher Education Institutions <em>Wang Chunqiu </em>24. The Dilemma of Government Student Loans <em>Kang Ning </em>25. Franchise Rights and the Interested Parties <em>Yu Xinrong </em>26. Where is the Way Out for the Farmers’ Problem of Seeing a Doctor? <em>Dong Yongan </em>27. Experiment on a New Rural Cooperative Medical System in Ezhou City in Hubei Province <em>Xu Songnan </em>28. Thoughts on the Wheat Flour Issue <em>Zhang Jianjin </em>29. How Can a Good Thing Be Well Done? <em>Chang Xiaochun </em>30. The Trust Crisis Caused by ‘Coconut Face-changing’ <em>Zeng Yu </em><strong>Part 6: Economic Reform and Development </strong>31. The Hardship, Pain and Happiness of Reform <em>Chen Youan </em>32. How to Take Advantage of Resources <em>Bu Xiaolin </em>33. Entrance Test’ for a New Official <em>Zhang Xiaolian </em>34. The Green Bank That Supports Farmers <em>Chen Weimin </em>35. The Dispute over Taxi Managerial Rights <em>Wu Zhenglong </em>36. Storm at Huigao Company <em>Li Lecheng</em></p>