从数字中国到“数目字”国家——一个愿景的历史使命

From Digital China to Mathematically Manageable China——The Historical Mission of A Vision

既然“建设数字中国是数字时代推进中国式现代化的重要引擎”,那么《数字中国整体布局规划》的愿景是否直面并回应了中国式现代化面临的突出挑战,能否在落地实践中兑现变中国为“数目字上可治理”的国家的使命,就成为了有待严肃检视的问题。沿用经典的组织理性化视角,以中国国家治理体系中的科层制组织为面向,可以提出一个分析国家组织现代化程度的概念框架,并将其用于探讨数字中国、国家组织现代化和中国式现代化三者间的逻辑联系与转化约束。这一概念框架中工具理性与价值理性相平衡的分析原则,有利于纠正视技术引进和融入为组织现代化充分条件的思维偏差,揭示出国家组织的现代化并非单纯技术与工具意义上的效率提升,更关乎其内部对公共价值的多元兼容与动态回应。实现数字中国的愿景不仅需要谋划成本—收益合理、职责分工明确、绩效考核激励相容的技术赋能方案,更需要探索党政之间、央地之间、政府与市场之间、国家与社会之间需求共生和价值共创的“平台”智慧。

As has been made clear,“building digital China is an important engine to promote Chinese-style modernization in the digital era”.But,does the vision in the“The Overall Layout of Digital China”address and respond to the most prominent practical challenges in Chinese-style modernization such that the Overall Layout can fulfill the mission of turning China into a“mathematically manageable”country Drawing on classical perspectives from organizational rationality analysis,this study used a conceptual framework to investigate the extent of to which modernization in state organizations could be established.The framework was later used to explore the boundaried connections among Digital China,the modernization of state organizations,and the national governance system.Balancing instrumental rationality and value rationality in this conceptual framework corrected the bias towards viewing technology importation and adoption as sufficient conditions for organizational modernization.The modernization of state organizations is not simply about efficiency increases in technology and equipment,but rather their endogenous pluralistic compatibility and dynamic response to public value.To achieve the vision of Digital China,the nation must develop a technology-enabling plan with reasonable costs and benefits,clear divisions of responsibility,and compatible performance assessments and incentives.This will inevitably require greater explorations of the“platform”wisdom of demand symbiosis and the value co-creation now existing between the ruling party and the state,the central and local governments,and the state and the society.