降低行政成本：当代中国政府施治的重要趋向

党的十六大报告指出要“进一步转变政府职能,改进管理方式,推行电子政务,提高行政效率,降低行政成本,形成行为规范、运转协调、公正透明、廉洁高效的行政管理体制”。降低行政成本,在党和政府的文献中第一次正式提出,这是一个综合性的目标,在整个改革中具有“牵一发而动全身”的意义。针对公共行政所面临共同问题的极端复杂性,以及当代中国政府治理体制性障碍要素的滞后影响,采取多种方式和途径进行整合,建立一套具有开放性和可调节性的行政成本管理和控制体系,这对我国政府适应环境的需要,完善治理理念和实践,抢占21世纪战略制高点,具有十分重要的作用。

Reducing Administrative Cost: Tendency Towards Execution by the Chinese Government

The report of The Sixteenth National Congress points out that we should further change the functions of the government,improve the methods of management,introduce e-government means,uplift administrative efficiency and reduce costs so as to form an administrative system featuring standardized behaviors,coordinated operation,fairness and transparency,honesty and high efficiency.Reducing administrative costs is,for the first time,officially proposed in the Party and in government's literature,which has key and essential significance in the entire reform.Faced with the common questions of extreme complexity in view of the public administration,as well as the lag influence of the institutional barrier essential factor in contemporary China government systems,establishing a set to have openness and the controllability administrative cost management and the control system requires many kinds of ways to conform,for it is important to consummate our country government ideas and practices and take the 21st century strategy commanding point.