Good Governance in China - A Way Towards Social Harmony: Case Studies by ChinaÆs Rising Leaders

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.

Introduction1. Reform of Government Administration System1.1 Why Private Coffers Are Rampant Sun Baohou1.2 An Experiment of Radical and Holistic Change Gao Zhili1.3 A Case of Construction of Governmental Information Network in Jiangxi Li Chunyan1.4 A Study of How to Improve the System of Civil Servant Performance Evaluation Zhai Tianshan1.5 Controversy Arising from the Experiment on Expanding the Powers of the Town and Township Governments in Shaoxing County Huang Xuming2. Urban Construction & Social Administration2.1 New Stories of Old Shantytowns Sun Guoxiang2.2 The Heating Charges of the Ice City Piao Yi2.3 Internet Cafe: What Else Can Be Done in Addition to Rectification? Wang Xueqin2.4 The Road to Community Correction Zhang Sujun3. Crisis Management & Group Incidents3.1 26 days and nights for the pollution of Tuojiang River Liu GuoQiang3.2 Emergency Response in the City Management Wu Shixiong3.3 Analysis of the Efficiency of Government Participation in Restructuring High-Risk Listed Companies Wang Huimin3.4 Settlement of Taxi Drivers' Strike Fang Li3.5 Pension Insurance Demand of the Former Town & Township Temporary Personnel Zhong Mian3.6 How Was a Collective Complaint Arising from Land Acquisition Solved? Chen Qingliang4. Resources and Ecological Environment4.1 Analysis of the Ban on Crop Stalk Burning Yang Shuping4.2 Should Government-supported projects causing pollution be permitted, if civilians are not allowed to be involved in those projects? Chen Zhongbo4.3 How Ground Subsidence Was Solved in Southern Jiangsu Province Zhang Lei4.4 On Selecting Location For Nanxi River Water Conservancy Project Zhang Miaogen4.5 Sixiao Highway: From Difficulty to Success Zhao Jin5. Education and Public Health5.1 Immigrants for NCEE Xu Jun5.2 College Graduates Go to Mountains and Villages: Idealistic or Realistic? Lu Gang5.3 An Analysis and Practice of Financial Assistance to Poor Students in Higher Education Institutions Wang Chunqiu5.4 The Dilemma of Government Student Loans Kang Ning5.5 Franchise Rights and the Interested Parties Yu Xinrong5.6 Where is the Way Out for the Farmers' Problem of Seeing a Doctor Dong Yong'an5.7 The Experiment on New Rural Cooperative Medical System in Ezhou City in Hubei Province Xu Songnan5.8 Thoughts on the Wheat Flour Issue Zhang Jianjin5.9 How can a good ting be well done? Chang Xiaochun5.10 The Trust Crisis Caused by Coconut Face-Changing Zeng Yu6. Economic Reform and Development6.1 The Hardship, Pain, and Happiness of the Reform Chen You'an6.2 How to Take Advantage of Resources Bu Xiaolin6.