论地方政府创新的改革缘起与推进机理

Study on the Reform Origin and Implementation Mechanism of Local Government Innovation

改革开放缘起于中国对现代国家治理有效性的探索。改革开放的顺利推进与地方政府持续创新相互促进,体现出中国现代国家有效治理的超强韧性。改革开放以来,地方政府创新经历了“摸着石头过河”的探索式创新、“晋升锦标赛”的竞争性创新以及“全面深化改革”的自觉创新三个阶段,呈现出从经验探索到制度设计、从单兵突破到协同推进、从压力驱动到自觉行动的特征,蕴含着“渐进为始”“有效为要”“可控为基”的创新策略。地方政府创新的推进机理在于:以人民性为地方政府创新的立足点,以央地关系制度化为地方政府创新的突破口,以治理现代化为地方政府创新的路向标。

Reform and opening stems from China’s exploration of the effectiveness of modern state governance.The smooth progress of reform and opening-up and the continuous innovation of local governments promote each other,reflecting the super-toughness of the effective governance in modern China.Since the reform and opening-up,local government innovation has experienced three stages of exploratory innovation of“touching the stone across the river”,competitive innovation of“promotion championship”and conscious innovation of“comprehensive deepening reform”,demonstrating the characteristics from experience exploration to system design,from single-person breakthrough to collaborative promotion,from pressure-driven to conscious action,which contains the innovation strategy which starts in gradual progress,emphasizes effectiveness and sees controllable process as the basic principle.The promotion mechanism of local government innovation lies in three aspects taking the people character as the foothold of local government innovation,institutionalizing the relationship between central and local governments as the breakthrough of local government innovation,and taking governance modernization as the road sign of local government innovation.