中国政府购买服务的历史、成果与挑战

政府购买服务的实践是在社会转型的大背景下中国政府治理机制的一种创新,它对于减轻政府压力,整合社会力量参与社会公共物品的供给,最大程度满足人民群众的各类服务需要等具有积极的意义。目前,中国政府购买服务的实践已由点到面向全国范围推广,并且实施更为规范、范围不断扩大、类别逐渐增加。但是,仍存在着重“绩效”而非“服务”、考评机制不够健全、作为承载主体的社会组织发展不健全、不均衡等问题。

History,achievements and challenges of government purchase of services in China

The practice of government purchase of services is an innovation of governance mechanism in China in the background of social transformation. It has positive significance in reducing the workload of the government, integrating the participation of non-government entities in public goods supply, meeting the various service needs of people to the maximum extent, and so on. The current practice of government purchase of services in China has been expanded from a few places to the whole country, and the implementation has been more standardized, the scope has become wider, the category has been gradually increased. However, there are several problems such as focus on “performance” rather than “service”, imperfect evaluation mechanism, the unsound and imbalanced development of social organizations as the carrier, etc.