The Modernization Of Chinas State Governance

This book elaborates on how China’s previous leaders established, consolidated, developed and improved China’s basic modern governance system. It also explores and discusses how to correctly, objectively and scientifically perceive, evaluate and promote the modernization of China’s state governance and its capacity. Using detailed and accurate data and extensive background information, this book analyzes the changing history and future perspectives of the relationship between China’s government and the market, state-owned economy and private economy. Covering an extensive timespan, this comprehensive book includes contributions from Chinese scholars specialized in contemporary China studies discussing the major breakthroughs and decision-making consultations in Chinese development strategies. It also offers insights into the research mechanism and development levels of Chinese think tanks based at research institutes. Last but not least, it sheds light on the democratic advances in the Chinese decision-making process.

This book provides an all-round analysis and exploration of the course, status quo and future of the Chinese Government's governance reform under the framework of government governance modernization. The authors bring their decades of experience in crafting policy in China to explain the relationship between China's government and market, between government and society, between the central government and local governments, functional transformation, organizational structure optimization, reform of public institutions, allocation of fiscally supported personnel, the building of a law-based government and other major issues, while also laying out a case for structural changes in the years to come.

China's combination of authoritarian rule and a market-oriented economy has proven simultaneously appealing and a source of domestic discontent. This essay collection balances policy analysis with detailed investigation of escalating popular unrest to anticipate the future of Chinese governance & society.

This book is based on the spirit of the communique of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee and the important series of speeches by General Secretary Xi Jinping. With clear logical framework and plain language, it expounds and interprets the 13 significant advantages of China's state system and governance system, and then points out that it has profound theoretical significance, practical significance and global significance to uphold, consolidate, improve and develop the socialist system and the state governance system with Chinese characteristics, which will vigorously promote the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics, actively lead the contemporary Chinese nation to move forward steadily and make China's contribution to the development of human institutional civilization.

This volume is a selection of Chinese political scholar Xianglin Xu’s published works spanning nearly 20 years of research that explore and discuss the socio-economic transition in China under state political reform. Contextualized within the decades following the 80s, the author analyzes patterns observed from empirical studies, and breaks down the underlining reasoning, conditions and functionalities behind the incremental reform policies pushed forward by the Party and government. The collection is broken up into four sections: the first provides a general framework and theoretical / historical introduction to social transition research in the case of China; the second section discusses the underpinning logic behind political reform in China and practical concerns; the third section follows with discussions on reform policy practices within China including application and trajectory; the final section concludes with an analysis of reform within state institutional infrastructure and policy innovation.

《中国如何治理？通向国家治理现代化的道路》讲述了政治对经济发展的作用尤其重大，没有政治的进步，就不可能有经济的进步。标志改革开放的中共十一届三中全会，本身也是一场政治改革。哪些是不变的基本制度框架？哪些是变革中的国家治理？弄清楚这两个具体的问题，也就能够大体明白：中国这个世上人口规模的国家是如何治理的，从而破解“中国发展之谜”。

China is a socialist developing country, and the Chinese people have chosen the CPC as the core of their leadership. After a long and bloody struggle, the Chinese people preferred China's current social system and proved to be the most suited to China's national conditions. For a long time, the Chinese people have followed the concept of state governance with the CPC at the core and the central leadership over local governments, top-down. The spirit of the CPC's important conferences and the main views of its core leaders will surely be implemented in China's modernization drive. Due to the particularity of China's national conditions, China's modernization also shows important characteristics of The Times. Therefore, to study China's modernization, we must first understand the CPC's important conference spirit. To predict the development trend of China's modernization, we must first understand the core ideas of China's leaders.

Many studies of government in China either simply describe the political institutions or else focus, critically, on the weaknesses of the system, such as corruption or the absence of Western-style democracy. Authors of these studies fail to appreciate the surprising ability of China’s government to rapidly transform a once impoverished economy and to recover from numerous crises from 1978 to the present. This book, on the other hand, takes a more balanced, more positive view. This view is based on a study of changes in China’s institutions for coping with critical crises in governance since 1978. These changes include better management of leadership succession, better crisis management, improved social welfare, the management of society through treating different social groups differently depending on their potential to rival the Party state, and a variety of limited, intra-party and grassroots democracy. This book applies to the Chinese model the term “pragmatic authoritarianism.” It explains changes to and the likely future direction of China’s governance model. It compares current risks in China’s governance with threats that terminated dynasties and the republic in China over the past four thousand years and concludes that the regime can be expected to survive a considerable period despite its existing flaws. "Few topics in Chinese politics are as significant as the nature, state and prospects of the political regime. While the topic had been unduly understudied for a long period of time, a young generation of scholars has emerged on this subject. Among others, the book by Hongyi Lai stands out and provides a comprehensive and penetrating analysis on this topic....I am confident that his book will make a significant contribution to the study of Chinese politics and may well define the debate on China’s political development, governance and model for years to come." - Yongnian Zheng, Director, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore