China: Building up Public Service Systems and Government Transformation

Details

During the conference, the focus was put on the building of Public Service Systems in China.

Venue:

Haikou, Hainan Province, China

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

08:30-09:50

Session One: Opening Session

Chair: Mr. Chi Fulin, Executive President of CIRD

1. Opening Addresses:

• Mr. Fang Xiaoyu

  Standing Member and Director-general of the Organization Dept.,CPC Hainan Provincial Committee

• Mrs. Ingrid Jung

  First Secretary, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany

• Mr. Gao Shangquan

  Chairman, Chinese Research Society for Economic System Reform and President of CIRD

• Mr. Winfried Jung

  Resident Representative of Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAF),Beijing

• Dr. Zhao Baige

  Vice Minister, National Commission of Population and Family Planning:

  Speeding up the Transformation of the Government towards a Service Orientation and Establishing Rural Public Service System

10:10-12:00

Session Two: Public Service System: China’s Practice and International Experience

Chair: Mr. Chang Xiuze, Professor, Institute of Macroeconomics, National Development and Reform Commission

Suggested Subtopics:

• International Experience in Building up Public Service Systems
• Building up Public Service Systems in China

• Mr. Chen Ci, Mayor of Haikou:

  Building a Service-oriented Municipal Government and Readjusting Fiscal Expenditure in Haikou City

• Mr. Georg Schäfer, Department for Reforming the State Administration, Ministry of Interior of Baden-Württemberg:

  Experience of Germany in Building up Public Service System,

• Mr. Zhang Chunlin, Senior Economist, the World Bank Office, Beijing:

  Institutional Foundation for Public Service Provision-an Analytical Framework

• Mr. Huang Ting, Chairman, Guangdong Provincial Research Society for Economic System Reform:

  Public Service Systems and Government Transformation

• Mr. Wang Yukai, Professor, State Administration College
• Dr. Matthias Rossi, Professor, Humboldt University Berlin

4. Summary by the Chair

12:00-14:30

Lunch and noon Break

14:45-16:10

Session Three (Roundtable 1): Balancing Economic-social Development and Building up Public Service Systems

Chair: Mr. Zou Dongtao, Editor-in-chief, Social Sciences Academic Press

Suggested topics:

• Sustainable Economic Development and Building-up of Public Service Systems
• Social Harmonization and Building-up of Public Service Systems

• Mr. Lin Jiabin, Deputy Director-general, Dept. of Social Development, Development Research Center, the State Council:

  Importance of and Policy Recommendations on Speeding up the Development of Public Services in West China

• Mr. Wang Jun, Director, Public Administration Teaching and Research Office, Dept. of Politics and Law, the Central Party School:

  Building-up of Public Service Systems: a Theoretical Perspective and Practical Choice

• Mr. Tang Jun, Secretary-general and Research Fellow, Center of Social Policies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences:

  Equalization of Public Services and Development in China

• Mr. Yu Ji, Deputy Director-general, Bureau of Policies, Laws and Regulations, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the State Council:

  Some Understandings of Strengthening the Role of the Government in Providing Public Services

• Mr. Peng Jingyi, Vice President, Hainan Provincial Party School
• Mr. Li Yinquan, Deputy Director-general, Development Research Center, Jilin Provincial Government

4. Summary by the Chair

16:20-18:00

Session Three (Roundtable 2): Building-up of Public Service Systems and Public Finance

Chair: Mr. Juergen Steiger, Program Director, Sino-German Economic and Structural Reform Program; Director of Economic, Law and Qualification Division, GTZ China

Suggested Topics:

• Building up Public Service Systems and Readjusting the Structure of Fiscal Expenditure
• Responsibilities and Financial Rights in Providing Public Services

• Ms. Ni Hongri, Vice President, China Development Publishing House:

  a Need to Rethink the Concept of Balancing the Administrative Power and Financial Rights

• Mr. Horst Zimmermann, Professor, University of Marburg, Germany:

  Public Finance Institutions: Structure and Tasks

• Mr. Armin Bohnet, Professor, University of Gießen, Germany:

  Fiscal Equalization and Public Service Systems in Germany

• Mr. Liu Pingzhi, Deputy Director-general, Dept. of Finance, Hainan Provincial Government:

  Building up Public Service Systems and Readjusting the Structure of the Fiscal Expenditure

• Mr. Sun Liping, Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University
• Mr. Mao Tengfei, Deputy Director-general, Development and Reform Committee, Hunan Provincial People’s Government

4. Summary by the Chair

14:45-16:25

Session Four (Roundtable 3): Building up a Unified Rural-urban Public Service Providing System

Chair: Mrs. Ingrid Jung, First Secretary, German Embassy in China

Suggested Topics:

• Status Quo of and Problems with the Provision of Public Services for Rural Areas
• Establishing Mechanisms to Equalize Public Services for Both Rural and Urban Areas

• Mr. Dang Guoying, Director, Office of Macroeconomic Research, Institute of Rural Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences:

  Reengineering the Basic Institutional Structure for Financial Supports to Rural Areas by the Government

• Mr. Zhao Zhongshe, Secretary, CPC Danzhou Municipal Committee, Hainan Province:

  Strengthening Rural Public Service Systems and Building up a Harmonious Socialist New Countryside

• Mr. Cui Zhongren, Deputy Director-general, Development Research Center, People’s Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region:

  Building up a New Countryside in Poor Areas and the Optimization of the Functions of the Government

• Mr. Zhang Yishan, Professor, Business College, Jilin University:

  Market and the Government in the Issue of Efficiency and Equality

• Mr. Ding Chengri, Associate Professor at University of Maryland; Special Assistant to the President to the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy on China Program: Property Taxation in China:

  Challenges and Prospects

• Mr. Zhao Jie, Division Chief, Research Office, the Central Party School
• Mr. Qiu Zhangjian, Chairman, Supervisory Committee for State Owned Enterprises, the State Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, Beijing Municipal People’s Government

4. Summary by the Chair

16:35-18:00

Session Four (Roundtable 4): Building up Public Service Systems and Reform of Public Institutions

Chair: Mr. Wang Yong, Director-general, Department of Transportation, Hainan Provincial Government

Suggested Topics:

• Public Service Systems and Reform of Public Institutions
• Government Transformation and Reform of Public Institutions

• Mr. Zhang Chunlin, Senior Economist, World Bank Office in China:

  Correctly Defining the Role of the Government in Providing Public Services

• Mr. Nie Gaomin, Director, Institute of Economic System Reform, National Development and Reform Commission:

  Shaping of the Role of the Government in USA in Supervising the Market along with the Industrialization Process and Implications

• Mr. Zou Dongtao, Editor-in-chief, Social Sciences Academic Press:

  Some Reflections on the Reform and Development of Public Institutions in China

• Mr. Qiu Zhangjian, Chairman, Supervisory Committee for State Owned Enterprises, the State Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, Beijing Municipal People’s Government:

  Advancing the Transformation of the Government by Strengthening Public Service Systems

• Mr. Zhu Huayou, Deputy Director-general, Department of Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs, Hainan Provincial Government
• Mr. Tian Zhonglin, Director-general, Research Office, Shaanxi Provincial People’s Government

4. Summary by the Chair

18:30-20:00

Reception Dinner/Evening Party

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

08:30-10:25

Session Five: Theoretical Innovations for Building up Public Service Systems

Chair: Mr. Winfried Jung,Resident Representative of Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAF), Beijing

Suggested Topics:

• Public Service Systems in the Process of Marketization
• Correctly Handling the Relationship between the Market and the Government

• Mr. Sun Liping, Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University:

  Rebuilding the Basic Social Order

• Mr. Li Xiaoxi, Vice Chairman, Academic Committee, Beijing Normal University; and Director, Institute of Economic and Resources Management:

  Reform of the Administration System of the Government in the New Situation

• Mr. Harald Fuhr, Professor, University of Potsdam, Germany:

  The Roles of Private Sector and Civil Society in Providing Public Services

• Mr. Liu Shangxi, Director-general, Institute of Fiscal Science, Ministry of Finance:

  Providing Public Services for Rural Areas Must Focus on the “Situation of Employment”

• Mr. Li Shuguang, Vice President, Graduate School, China University of Political Science and Law:

  Anti-monopoly Law and Building up of Public Service System

• Mr. Zhao Xiao, Professor, College of Management, Beijing Science and Technology University:

  Transformation of the Chinese Government from the Perspective of the Real Estate Development Model

• Mr. Ding Chengri, Associate Professor at University of Maryland Special Assistant to the President to the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy on China Program
• Mr. Tang Jun, Secretary-general and Research Fellow, Center of Social Policies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

4. Summary by the Chair

10:35-12:00

Session Six: Innovations in Mechanisms for Providing Public Services

Chair: Mr. Chen Haibo, Director-General, Department of Finance, Hainan Provincial Government

1. Keynote Speeches

• Mr. Liu Jianguo, Party Secretary and Director, Administrative Licensing Service Center, Nankai District People’s Government, Tianjin City:

  No Response After the Deadline Being Regarded as Acquiesce to Reform the Administrative Approval System

• Mr. An Ning, Deputy Secretary, CPC Work Committee, Yangling Demonstration District, Shaanxi Provinc:

  “Service Commitment System” in Yangling Demonstration District

• Mr. Hu Guanghui, Secretary, CPC Wanning Municipal Committee, Hainan Province:

  Building-up of Public Service Systems for New Countryside and Transformation of the Role of the Government at the Municipal and County Levels

• Mr. Ding Yuanzhu, Research Fellow, Institute of Macroeconomics, National Development and Reform Commission:

  Getting Rid of Over-reliance on Marketization

• Mr. Li Xiaoxi, Vice Chairman, Academic Committee, Beijing Normal University; and Director, Institute of Economic and Resources Management
• Mr. Dang Guoying, Director, Office of Macroeconomic Research, Institute of Rural Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

4. Summary by the Chair

12:00-14:30

Lunch and noon Break

15:00-16:45

Session Seven: Reform of the Administration System of the Government and Building up Public Service Systems

Chair: Mr. Wang Feng, Director-general, Dept. No. 2, State Commission for Public Sector Reform

Suggested Topics:

• Reforms of the Administrative System of the Government by the Building-up of Government Public Service Systems
• Ideas and Policy Recommendations on the Reform of the Administrative System of the Government

• Mr. Guo Shutian, Former Director-General, Department of Policy, Laws and Regulations, Ministry of Agriculture:

  Balancing Rural-urban Development and Public Services

• Mr. Wang Yukai, Professor, the State Administration College, and Ph. D student supervisor, Peking University:

  Reform Strategy with the Administration System as the Core and Building up Service Oriented Government

• Dr. Matthias Rossi, Professor, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany:

  Responsibilities for Public Service Provision at Different Levels of the Government

• Mr. Chang Xiuze, Professor, the State Administration College, and Ph. D student supervisor , Peking University:

  Some Reflections on the Reform of the Administration System of the Government

• Mr. Shen Ronghua, Director-general, Center of Public Administration, Chinese Society for Public Administration:

  Strengthening Institutional Arrangements for Public Services

• Mr. Zhang Daping, Director-general, Dept. of Social Development, Research Office, the State Council
• Mr. Liu Shangxi, Deputy Director-general, Institute of Fiscal Science, Ministry of Finance

4. Summary by the Chair

16:55-18:20

Session Eight: Closing Session

Chair: 'Mr. Yin Zhongyi,' Vice President, CIRD

Summary Speeches:

• A Representative of German Participants: Prof. Dr. Zimmermann
• Mr. Duan Yingbi, Vice Chairman, Economic Committee, National People’s Political Consultative Conference; and Deputy Director-General, Office, Leading Group for West China Development, the State Council
• Dr. Zhao Baige, Vice Minister, State Commission for Population and Family Planning
• ''i>''''Mr. Gao Shangquan, Chairman, Chinese Research Society for Economic System Reform, and President, China Institute for Reform and Development