行政区划改革的新趋势与新经验

New Trends and Experiences in Administrative Division Reform

行政区划改革是我国政府治理现代化的重要保障和基础。作为国家结构的一种基本组织形式,行政区划是政府组织结构在空间上的具体体现,是行政权力的空间配置,被视作国家治理形式和政府组织架构的空间投影。自改革开放以来,为适应飞速发展的市场经济及其带来的社会变迁,我国政府对行政区划进行了一系列调整,积累了宝贵的经验。进入新时代,面对中国特色社会主义发展所呈现的新形势,深化行政区划改革成为必然要求。新时代的行政区划改革主要集中在推进“区界重组”、重启“撤县(镇)设市”和调整开发区与行政区关系三个领域,在系统总结汲取既往改革经验的基础上,以基层行政区划调整为抓手,旨在理顺政府职能,协调权责关系,为国家治理体系的现代化提供制度保障。

Organizational structure reform is a crucial guarantee and organizational foundation for the modernization of govermance in the Chinese government.As a fundamental organizational form of the national structure,administrative division is the concrete spatial manifestation of the government's organizational structure,representing the spatial allocation of administrative power,and is viewed as the spatial projection of the form of state governance and government organizational framework.Since the reform and opening-up,the Chinese govermment has made a series of adjustments to the administrative divisions in response to the rapidly developing market economy and its accompanying social changes,accumulating valuable experience.Entering the new era,facing the new situation of the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics,the deepening of administrative division reform has become a necessity.The reform of administrative divisions in the new era mainly focuses on three areas:promoting"regional boundary reorganization",restarting the"abolition of counties(towns)and establishment of cities",and adjusting the relationship between development zones and administra-tive regions.Based on a systematic summary and learning from past reform experiences,these reforms aim at adjusting grassroots administrative divisions as the focus,aiming to streamline government functions,coordinate the relationship between rights and responsibilities,and provide institutional guarantees for the modernization of China's national governance system.